Raymond J. March

Raymond March is a faculty fellow at the NDSU Center for the Study of Public Choice and Private Enterprise (PCPE) an assistant professor in the NDSU Department of Agribusiness and Applied Economics, a fellow with the AIER Public Choice and Public Policy Project, and a contributor to Young Voices. His research has appeared in the Southern Economic Journal,  Public Choice, Journal of Institutional Economics, and Research Policy. He has published articles in National Interest, Washington Times, Washington Examiner, The Hill, RealClearHealth, and elsewhere.

Raymond is a research fellow at the Independent Institute and the director of FDAReview.org, an educational research and communications project on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

The Daily Economy11/9/23

Psychedelics Will Help America’s Mental Health Crisis — If the FDA Lets Them

"The FDA granted ecstasy breakthrough therapy status in 2017, expediting its process to becoming an approved treatment. Generating an approval process for other drugs like these is the next logical…

Psychedelics Will Help America’s Mental Health Crisis — If the FDA Lets Them
The Daily Economy12/9/22

Here Is How the FDA Made the RSV Wave More Dangerous

"As a result of the FDA's warning letter, the latest version of the Smart Sock no longer monitors an infant’s heart or lungs. The FDA drove parents’ best option to…

Here Is How the FDA Made the RSV Wave More Dangerous
The Daily Economy12/1/22

Mental Health Is In Crisis. What Is the Answer?

"The first step toward fixing it is not letting it get worse. Given the US government’s track record of harming perhaps those who need our help the most, I think…

Mental Health Is In Crisis. What Is the Answer?
The Daily Economy11/12/22

Diabetic Complications and Economic Fundamentals

"Basic economics, both in theory and practice, warn us that these latest efforts to subsidize insulin production are much more likely to cause further harm to an already dire situation."…

Diabetic Complications and Economic Fundamentals
The Daily Economy11/1/22

Three More Months of the Ratchet Effect?

"The Biden Administration granted itself three more months to prolong and extend the ratchet effect to secure more power and less freedom. Tragically, the longer government extends the crisis, the…

Three More Months of the Ratchet Effect?
The Daily Economy10/25/22

Don’t Let the FDA Tell You What’s Healthy

"Determining what is healthy or unhealthy is complex. Complex problems rarely have entirely right or wrong answers. The FDA is trying (again) to provide this, but there is a slim…

Don’t Let the FDA Tell You What’s Healthy
The Daily Economy10/5/22

Pandemics and Liberty: An Introduction

"There will be more pandemics, and how (and how well) we can address them strongly depends on learning from contemporary and historical successes and failures. This volume aspires to take…

Pandemics and Liberty: An Introduction
The Daily Economy6/18/22

What Can Healthcare Prices Teach About Inflationary Woes?

"Unfortunately, addressing inflation may be more of an incentive problem than a 'what policy should we adopt' problem. Examining the US’s healthcare industry through the lens of public choice economics…

What Can Healthcare Prices Teach About Inflationary Woes?
The Daily Economy6/10/22

Review: Scott Atlas’s A Plague Upon Our House

"Dr. Atlas’ analysis of the US’s COVID-19 response is masterful. This book offers great explanations and evidence to clarify COVID-related misunderstandings and falsehoods. His accounts of working in DC are…

Review: Scott Atlas’s A Plague Upon Our House
The Daily Economy6/8/22

Monkeypox and Leviathan?

"As far as public health crises are concerned, monkeypox is not in the same league as Covid-19. They are entirely different. But they share a disturbing similarity- their potential to…

Monkeypox and Leviathan?