Pertinent Category: White Paper

Windmills in the Parnitha mountains

The Incoherence of ESG: Why We Should Disaggregate the Environmental, Social, and Governance Label

– September 26, 2024

“Conceptually, no reason exists for why the fundamental ideas within the ESG label should correlate with one another.” ~Paul Mueller

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The Threats Posed by Environmental, Social, and Governance Policies

– July 12, 2024

Leaders in business, government, and finance have increasingly imposed Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) criteria on the rest of society. These top-down restrictions on society are costly and ineffective ways to address perceived and actual s …

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A Free, Prosperous and Secure America

– July 12, 2024

This paper holds that free trade generally enhances US national security, while economic nationalist or neo-mercantilist policies tend to undermine it.

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Unbundling Zoning

– July 12, 2024

This paper investigates the case for abolishing zoning. Recent arguments for zoning abolition maintain that local governments can adequately regulate land use without the strict separation of permitted uses that characterizes modern zoning. The harms o …

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