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New Publications

  • Reforming Social Security to Better Promote Retirement Security

    by Jason J. Fichtner
    May 23, 2013

  • The Effect of Tax Increases and Spending Cuts on Economic Growth

    by Veronique de Rugy
    May 22, 2013

  • Standards for the Growing, Harvesting, Packing, and Holding of Produce for Human Consumption

    by Michael L. Marlow
    May 21, 2013

  • Current Good Manufacturing Practice and Hazard Analysis and Risk-Based Preventive Controls for Human Food

    by Michael L. Marlow
    May 21, 2013

  • Renewable-Energy Subsidies and Electricity Generation

    by Veronique de Rugy
    May 21, 2013

More Publications

In his latest testimony before the House Committee on Ways and Means, Jason Fichtner argues that Social Security's current structure provides disincentives to work and save. If reformed correctly, it can increase US savings, labor force participation, growth and federal revenues. 

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The Cost of Tax Compliance

Freedom in the Fifty States

Is Bitcoin a Big Deal?

Austerity and Economic Growth

Renewable-Energy Electricity Generation

What's at Stake with Medicaid Expansion?

Books

The 4% Solution

by Charles Blahous, Jason J. Fichtner
Jul 02, 2012

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

Jan 08, 2013

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Expert Commentary

  • The Top 3 Things I Learned at the Bitcoin Conference

    Reason
    By Jerry Brito
    May 22, 2013

  • The Film Tax Credit Farse

    Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
    By Antony Davies, James R. Harrigan
    May 22, 2013

  • If The IRS Bothers You, So Should The FSOC and CFPB

    Real Clear Markets
    By Hester Peirce
    May 22, 2013

  • Why Government Aid Programs Aren’t the Best Way to End Poverty

    City A.M.
    By Christopher Coyne
    May 21, 2013

  • Why Is There No Milton Friedman Today?

    Econ Journal Watch
    By Daniel Klein, Tyler Cowen, John Blundell, David R. Henderson, David Colander, Richard Epstein, James Galbraith, J. Daniel Hammond, Daniel Houser, Steven Medema, Sam Peltzman, Richard Posner
    May 21, 2013

More Expert Commentary

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

Christopher Coyne, Peter J. Boettke | May 09, 2013

New Podcast Episodes

  • Gina Keating on netflix

    May 21, 2013

  • Epstein on the Constitution

    May 20, 2013

More Podcasts

Spending & Budget

  • The Hidden Costs of Tax Compliance

  • 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

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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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