Regulation

  • Investors Make Houses More Affordable, Not Less

    “Blaming high housing prices on private equity because they ‘bought up all the available homes’ is like blaming high food prices on grocery stores because they bought up all the available food.”

    Investors Make Houses More Affordable, Not Less
  • Policy Uncertainty Drives Economic Volatility

    “Regulations often have significant compliance costs and operational challenges. The regulatory burden can stifle innovation and deter investment, particularly in industries struggling with economic headwinds.” ~Vance Ginn

    Policy Uncertainty Drives Economic Volatility
  • Schedule F vs. Reality 

    “Reforming the administrative state and rewriting statutes and regulations is hard work, requiring careful policymaking, talented people, and consensus-building. It’s not the product of gimmicks like Schedule F and databases of inexperienced people.” ~Thomas A. Firey

    Schedule F vs. Reality 
  • Foot Voting Reconsidered: How Should I Think About Leaving?

    “Compared to ballot voting, moving has larger individual impacts, which mean greater incentives to acquire knowledge; it provides a better signal to both the country you’re leaving and the one you’re joining.” ~Joakim Book

    Foot Voting Reconsidered: How Should I Think About Leaving?
  • Democrats Play the Blame Game on Rent Inflation

    “Imposing new costly regulations will not make housing more affordable — unleashing the housing supply by deregulating zoning and overly strict building codes will.” ~Louis Rouanet

    Democrats Play the Blame Game on Rent Inflation
  • Is Promoting to Customers a Crime?

    “McKinsey allegedly tried to help Purdue tailor its sales efforts…. There’s nothing mysterious or nefarious about this. To do otherwise would be inefficient and wasteful.” ~ David R. Henderson and Charles L. Hooper

    Is Promoting to Customers a Crime?
  • How Nations Defeat Poverty

    “What these stories all have in common is that these nations rose from poverty by embracing a common formula: more economic freedom and free trade… not international aid or central planning.” ~Jon Miltimore

    How Nations Defeat Poverty
  • Protectionists Are Wrong: Free Trade is the Path to Prosperity

    “Consumers and producers in America are better off with more domestic and international trade. As we don’t want to produce everything we consume daily, trading with others is the most efficient way to meet our needs.” ~Vance Ginn

    Protectionists Are Wrong: Free Trade is the Path to Prosperity
  • Government Failure in One Lesson

    “Perhaps the easiest way to explain government failure in one lesson is to remember that there is no such thing as ‘the state.’ Instead, essential decisions about resource use will be made by political actors.” ~Michael Munger

    Government Failure in One Lesson
  • Defense Manual for The War on Prices

    “The book advocates for a substantial policy shift toward minimal governmental interference, allowing market mechanisms to function unimpeded. Sadly, we are moving in the opposite direction.” ~Vance Ginn

    Defense Manual for The War on Prices
  • Confounding the Case for Oil and Gas Collusion

    “Oil is produced and sold in a global market. Even true cartels like OPEC don’t have total control over prices. It comes down to supply and demand.” ~Alexander W. Salter

    Confounding the Case for Oil and Gas Collusion
  • Robinson-Patman Deserves Last Rites, Not Resurrection

    “It strips consumers’ freedom to choose for themselves in an area they are far more competent at than government ‘enforcers,’ combined with the chutzpah of claiming that its purpose is to benefit competition.” ~Gary M. Galles

    Robinson-Patman Deserves Last Rites, Not Resurrection