Tarnell Brown

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Tarnell Brown is an independent researcher, economist, and public policy analyst investigating how institutions shape socioeconomic outcomes for disadvantaged subgroups. He focuses on incentive-compatible reforms — raising the cost of discriminatory outcomes while tracking real capabilities and tradeoffs. He publishes new essays at www.eccentricecon.com.

DOJ Makes Our Skies Less Friendly

"The damage done by allowing 'anticompetitive' mergers dissipates over time, but the benefits of erroneously prohibiting beneficial ones are lost forever." ~Tarnell Brown

DOJ Makes Our Skies Less Friendly

Tariff Truths

"President Biden has maintained his predecessor’s duties on some $370 million worth of Chinese imports. Both national conservatives and liberal protectionists are dead wrong about tariffs and growth." ~Tarnell Brown

Tariff Truths

Bottle Rockets and Falling Skies: How SVB Crashed and Why It’s Not the End of the World

"Their failure to take steps to hedge against imminent deflationary policy was grossly negligent, and ultimately unlikely to be repeated by bank managers whose responsibilities extend beyond a specific boutique…

Bottle Rockets and Falling Skies: How SVB Crashed and Why It’s Not the End of the World

What Is Juneteenth to All Americans?

"America is a promise, one that has yet to be met. As July 4 commemorates the initiation of that promise, Juneteenth commemorates the work yet to be done, reminding us…

What Is Juneteenth to All Americans?

Black Liberation Through the Marketplace: A Review

"The authors infuse their work with suggestions towards institutional, policy, and legal changes that empower disadvantaged subgroups to work towards their own flourishing within the market mechanism." ~ Tarnell Brown

Black Liberation Through the Marketplace: A Review

Uncomplicating a Complicated World: The Shining Legacy of Walter E. Williams

"Walter Williams was vastly instrumental in showing us that the best solutions to the racial problems that bedevil us don't come from the government who all too often caused a…

Uncomplicating a Complicated World: The Shining Legacy of Walter E. Williams