Economics and Economic Freedom
A free and prosperous society requires a functioning market economy at its foundation. Using a broad array of tools drawn from price theory, public choice analysis, Austrian theory, and classical empiricism, our study of economics and economic freedom explores the underpinnings of the market system, the roots of economic prosperity, and emerging threats to the same in the public policy sphere. Our work includes the measurement of freedom and providing practical economic information for people to make better decisions.
Research Publications for Economics and Economic Freedom
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General Institutional Considerations of Blockchain and Emerging Applications
Authors: PC Earle, DM Waugh
Publication: The Emerald Handbook on Cryptoassets: Investment Opportunities and …, 2023
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Regulatory Decentralization and Stringency: The Case of Comparative Minimum Wage and Renewable Energy Policies
Authors: J Sorens
Publication: Publius: The Journal of Federalism 53 (1), 55-81, 2023
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Achieving Ecological Reflexivity: The Limits of Deliberation and the Alternative of Free-Market-Environmentalism
Authors: J Enninga, RM Yonk
Publication: Sustainability 15 (8), 6396, 2023
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Gordon Tullock and the Economics of Slavery
Authors: P Magness, A Carden, I Murtazashvili
Publication: Available at SSRN 4318585, 2023
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The History and Evolution of the North American Wildlife Conservation Model
Authors: RE Wright
Publication: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022
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Changing Minds on Restrictive Zoning: How to Unclog America’s Home Supply
Authors: J Sorens
Publication: Manhattan Institute, Apr 1, 2022
Articles
What’s Called “Common Good Capitalism” Would Work Against the Common Good
“Because innovation is destined not only to reveal new ends that must be fitted into — and, hence, disrupt — the ‘common good capitalist’ plan, but also to create new and unanticipated means of pursuing ends, innovation must be suppressed if any ‘common good capitalist’ plan is to be seriously imposed.” ~ Donald J. Boudreaux
Back to the Future: The Biden Administration’s Loan Level Price Adjustment and a Repeat of the Housing Crisis
“The LLPA would be immediately damaging to all Americans who have done the right thing, established solid credit and saved for an adequate down payment. It would be eventually damaging to those who are given unsustainable mortgages.” ~ H. Shelton Weeks & Nikolai G. Wenzel
The Political Cleverness of Envy-Driven Housing Policies
“This is a recipe for housing stagnation. Strangling the supply of new market rate housing through these various programs means that existing market rents (whenever they are not regulated), must reach stratospheric levels.” ~ Raymond C. Niles
Biden’s Bad Bet: How Regulation Kills Economic Growth
“We need to do two things to clean up this mess: unshackle the economy and shackle the administrative state. Bureaucrats and their political enablers can’t be trusted to curb their ambitions, so we must do it for them.” ~ Alexander William Salter
Apple’s Advantage as a Corporate-Backed Bank Alternative
“A more diversified ecosystem for financing has the potential to encourage and incentivize a dynamic and innovative economic system, which is why Apple’s gearing up for what seems to be neobank status is certainly worth paying attention to.” ~ Kimberlee Josephson
When Flying Is Freedom
“The freedom private pilots enjoy, pointing their aircraft in any direction the birds fly, is a testament to the potential for other markets to also operate in a similar manner, without overbearing regulatory apparatuses.” ~ Craig J. Richardson
