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More Pritchett, Less Piketty
Last week, Thomas Piketty and 45 co-authors at the World Inequality Lab released what they call the Global Justice Report. Piketty summed up the main…
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Veronique de Rugy
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Introducing the Free to Give Index: Grading Every State on Philanthropic Freedom
This week, Philanthropy Roundtable published the Free to Give Index, a comprehensive, state-by-state assessment of the policy environments that shape…
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Jack Salmon
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The Paris-to-Sacramento Pipeline: How Three Economists Built a Blueprint for Taking Your Stuff
A coordinated agenda to impoverish rich countries and keep poor countries poor in plain sight
Jun 11
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Veronique de Rugy
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The White House has a Serious Tariff Problem
The time has arrived when those in the White House are finally being forced to confront the real effects of tariffs, and they are doing so as expected…
Jun 8
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Liberalization and the Environment: Economic Freedom's Environmental Dividend
Two months ago, I wrote about a new paper testing the core empirical predictions of the degrowth framework and finding them wanting.
Jun 8
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Jack Salmon
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Obamacare’s Fraud Problem Is an Incentives Problem
A new paper from the Paragon Health Institute, The Persistent Obamacare Enrollment Fraud, documents a remarkable fact about the Affordable Care Act…
Jun 4
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Jack Salmon
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May 2026
Forget Waste, Fraud and Abuse. Focus on Improper Payments
Why measurable improper payments beat a familiar but slippery budget catchphrase
May 29
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Joshua Rowley
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The Saez-Zucman California Billionaire Tax Proposal Ignores One Important Question
Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman have spent the better part of a decade arguing that billionaires are undertaxed.
May 28
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Jack Salmon
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Did High Taxes Build the Middle Class?
The Myth of America’s High-Tax Golden Age
May 26
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Jack Salmon
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Rates Were Never Going to Stay Low Forever
On Tuesday, the yield on a 30-year U.S.
May 21
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Veronique de Rugy
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The Problem With Government Investors Isn’t Just That They’re Bad at It. It’s That They Shouldn’t Be Doing It.
When I wrote recently about the growing number of entrepreneurs, investors, and Wall Street veterans entering government to run industrial policy and…
May 19
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Veronique de Rugy
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Effects of tariffs through the lens of empirical research
In recent years, policymakers across the political spectrum have proposed, and enacted sweeping new import taxes on foreign goods, often with the stated…
May 18
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Jack Salmon
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