US Ranks 17 In Economic Freedom of the World: 2013 Annual Report
The United States, a country who once
The United States, a country who once
In his new book, Poverty and Progress: Realities and Myths about Global Poverty, renowned development economist Deepak Lal draws on 50 years of experience around the globe to describe developing-country realities and rectify misguided notions about economic progress.
Jeffrey A. Miron is a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute and the Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Economics at Harvard University. His area of expertise is the economics of libertarianism, with particular emphasis on the economics of illegal drugs.
Daniel J. Mitchell, columnist and economic scholar at the CATO Institute, was in Vienna for the annual European Resource Bank meeting. During a speech about the economic reform in Chile, specifically the system of personal retirement accounts, Mr. Pinera shared a chart that “conclusively shows why good economic policy makes a difference,” as Mitchell put it.
In debating Common Core standards, or rather the issue of Common Core in general, with members of either party and it will not be long before it becomes apparent that no one knows what they are talking about.
Neal McCluskey, of the CATO Institute, is right to say that government-funded aid for college tuition is right for politicians and their academic friends, not students. College tuition has absolutely skyrocketed side-by-side with the increase in government spending on college tuition assistance programs. This is deja vu all over again. McCluskey recently wrote:
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As promised, here is Alex Nowrasteh from CATO, who has disputed the Heritage study on the basis of its failure to account for GDP growth as a result of immigration. And here in lays the crux of the immigration reform argument.
