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New Publications

  • Public Debt Under Various FY 2014 Proposals

    by Veronique de Rugy
    May 13, 2013

  • Beyond Unemployment: The Full Labor Market Picture of Ohio

    by Keith Hall, Robert Greene
    May 09, 2013

  • Defense Spending and the Economy

    by Robert J. Barro , Veronique de Rugy
    May 07, 2013

  • The Slow Recovery's Impact on Families

    by Veronique de Rugy, Keith Hall
    May 07, 2013

  • Financial Market Utilities

    by Hester Peirce
    May 06, 2013

More Publications

The outlook for this year's college graduates isn't pretty, with long-term unemployment remaining a significant problem and baby boomers delaying retirement. In an interview with Fox 5, Keith Hall said that young people get hit harder during the recession and can fall behind on their earning potential.

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Great Economists on MRUniversity

Freedom in the Fifty States

Impact of Internet Sales Tax

Public Debt Under FY 2014 Proposals

Government and Internet Governance

What's at Stake with Medicaid Expansion?

Books

Dodd-Frank: What It Does and Why It's Flawed

Jan 08, 2013

Governing to Win: Enhancing National Competitiveness Through New Policy and Operating Approaches

by Jason J. Fichtner
Aug 27, 2012

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Expert Commentary

  • Five Reasons to Keep Government Out of Internet Governance

    U.S. News and World Report
    By Eli Dourado
    May 13, 2013

  • Interstate Protectionism and the Dormant Commerce Clause

    Pileus
    By Jason Sorens
    May 10, 2013

  • The SEC's Cross Border Regulatory Creep

    Real Clear Markets
    By Hester Peirce
    May 08, 2013

  • There's Nothing Fair About an Internet Sales Tax

    U.S. News and World Report
    By Nita Ghei
    May 06, 2013

  • Craigslist Takes Upstart Competitors to Court

    Reason
    By Jerry Brito
    May 06, 2013

More Expert Commentary

Doing Bad by Doing Good, Why Humanitarian Action Fails Book Panel

Christopher Coyne, Peter J. Boettke | May 14, 2013

New Podcast Episodes

  • Capitol Hill Campus: The Pathology of Privilege: The Consequences of Government Favoritism

    May 14, 2013

  • W. Patrick McCray on Visioneers

    May 07, 2013

More Podcasts

Spending & Budget

  • Defense Spending and the Economy

  • The Case for Across-the-Board Spending Cuts

  • Welfare Block Grants as a Guide for Medicaid Reform

  • Austerity: The Relative Effects of Tax Increases versus Spending Cuts

  • The Affordable Care Act's Optional Medicaid Expansion: Considerations Facing State Governments

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Financial Markets

  • How to Fix Our Broken Proxy Advisory System

  • The Federal Reserve's Expanding Regulatory Umbrella

  • An Introduction to U.S. Monetary Policy

  • Evaluating the Centralized-Layers Approach to U.S. Federal Financial Regulation

  • Resolving Too-Big-To-Fail Banks in the United States

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Tech Policy

  • Uncreative Destruction: The Misguided War on Vertical Integration in the Information Economy

  • The Pursuit of Privacy in a World Where Information Control Is Failing

  • Technopanics, Threat Inflation, and the Danger of an Information Technology Precautionary Principle

  • Beyond Cyber-Doom: Assessing the Limits of Hypothetical Scenarios in the Framing of Cyber-Threats

  • Do High International Telecom Rates Buy Telecom Sector Growth?

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Regulation

  • Evaluating OSHA's Effectiveness and Suggestions for Reform

  • Evaluating the Centralized-Layers Approach to U.S. Federal Financial Regulation

  • The Employment Costs of Regulation

  • The Economic Situation, March 2013

  • The Failure of Risk-Based Capital Regulation

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State and Local

  • The Economic Situation, March 2013

  • Delaware's Public Employees' Retirement System: A Complete and Transparent Accounting

  • State Capitalism and the Rent-Seeking Conjecture

  • Government Streamlining Commissions: A Methodology for Measuring Effectiveness

  • Medicaid Reform and Emergency Room Visits: Evidence from West Virginia's Medicaid Redesign

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Economics

  • The Economic Situation, December 2012

  • Economic Analysis By Federal Financial Regulators

  • The Case for Nominal GDP Targeting

  • Uncreative Destruction: The Misguided War on Vertical Integration in the Information Economy

  • The Economic Situation, October 2012

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