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Entitlement Spending Explodes

Veronique de Rugy | Mar 08, 2010
This chart by Veronique de Rugy illustrates the Congressional Budget Office’s long-term baseline projections of federal spending.

Economic Affairs
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Land Reform as Social Justice: The Case of South Africa

Karol Boudreaux | Mar 08, 2010
As a result of a very long history of discriminatory legislation, black South Africans suffered substantial harms at the hands of past governments. Following the political transition in 1994, the new government implemented land reform policies designed, in part, to satisfy calls for social justice. This paper examines these policies in the context of Hayek's arguments about social justice.

Working Paper
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Can Freedom and Knowledge Economy Indexes Explain Go-Getter Migration Patterns?

Bruce Yandle, Tate Watkins | Mar 05, 2010
What explains the migration decisions of young adults in the prime years of their working lives, people 25-39 years old, the builders of future economies, those people historian Daniel Boorstin (1974) called the Go-Getters? Are they driven to find emerging knowledge economies where returns to their investment in human capital may be highest? Or are they more oriented toward avoiding high taxes and onerous regulation and finding greater personal freedom? Do people migrating within the United States behave like foreigners migrating to the United States? Does protection of personal freedom matter? In short, what are the knowledge and freedom determinants of migration?

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Recession Employment Trends

Veronique de Rugy | Mar 01, 2010
This chart compares the changes in public and private sector employment which have occurred during the past two years.

Congressional Testimony

The Condition of Small Business and Commercial Real Estate Lending in Local Markets

Testimony Before the United States House of Representatives Committee on Financial Services Committee on Small Business
Todd Zywicki | Feb 26, 2010
In this testimony before the House Financial Services Committee, Prof. Todd Zywicki discusses the negative impact of recently-enacted and contemplated future legislation in interfering with a wellfunctioning lending market and in creating an environment of uncertainty that discourages lending.