Topic: Regulation

Job Gentrification: Three Questions as a Way of Teaching About Minimum Wages

“If you force much higher wages — and a ‘living wage’ of $15/hour for an entry-level job in fast food is much higher — then you will ‘gentrify” jobs.’ ~ Michael C. Munger

Some Factual and Economic Errors of “Common Good Capitalism”

“Arguments for ‘common good capitalism’ are chock-a-block both with factual errors and faulty economic reasoning of a sort not found in arguments for true capitalism.” ~ Donald J. Boudreaux

The Gas-Powered Banning Bandwagon: Why Politicians Should Leave Leaf Blowers Alone

“Given that there is already a severe shortage of labor in the landscape sector, the concern won’t be over what equipment is being used, but rather who will even opt to use it.” ~ Kimberlee Josephson

Operation Chokepoint 2.0: The Crypto Crackdown Explained (Video)

“In this episode of Liberty Curious, Kate Wand discusses the Obama-era Operation Chokepoint, and today’s ‘Operation Chokepoint 2.0’ with AIER Senior Research Faculty Thomas Hogan.” ~ AIER

Regulatory Decentralization and Stringency: The Case of Comparative Minimum Wage and Renewable Energy Policies

Industrial Policy Does Indeed Fall Victim to the Knowledge Problem

“Prices, asset values, and profits and losses determined in open markets in which people spend and invest their own (and only their own) money are the only sources of information in a modern economy about which resource uses are worthwhile and which resource uses aren’t worthwhile.” ~ Donald J. Boudreaux

Caitlin Long: Fighting for Economic Freedom (Video)

“In this episode of Liberty Curious, Kate Wand spoke with Caitlin Long, founder of Custodia, a financial institution anchored around bitcoin, sound money, and safe banking.” ~ AIER

Broken Buildings, Busted Budgets: How to Fix America’s Trillion-Dollar Construction Industry

Downsizing the Administrative State

“To more fully restore the separation of powers intended by the founders, SCOTUS must soundly repudiate the Chevron Doctrine, and assert the primacy of an alternative.” ~ David Gillette & Warren Barge

Ga. Reps Slice Possible Lifeline for Kids in Failing Schools

“School choice will continue to be a battle across the nation, because some special interests have been given control over millions of children and billions of dollars, and they won’t give that power up without a fight.” ~ Laura Williams

Pandemics and Liberty

Freedom in the 50 States: An Index of Personal and Economic Freedom