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January 14, 2025
The Pornography Industry Should Not Be Allowed This Much Access to Our Children
…Young University and a Fellow of the Wheatley Institute, Michael Toscano is a Senior Fellow and the Director of the Family First Technology Initiative at the Institute for Family Studies….
January 8, 2025
Menu Adjustment in Response to the Minimum Wage: A Return to the New Jersey-Pennsylvania Border
Abstract This paper studies how output prices are affected by increases in the minimum wage. To the best of our knowledge, we provide the first examination of how the prices…
December 17, 2024
Industrial Policy and Deficits: Dark Clouds for Democratic Capitalism
Democratic capitalism is a system that marries liberal democracy and free-market capitalism. This union creates tensions, and requires balancing competing aims. But this tension is healthy, not destructive — provided…
December 5, 2024
More High-Skill Immigration Is Popular. Let’s Act on That
…last summer, whose authors include numerous academics and think tankers, including AEI economist Michael Strain: One obvious policy solution is to stop sending away foreign-born graduates of American colleges and…
December 5, 2024
Inflation Reduction Act Offers a General Lesson against Industrial Policy
With President Trump’s stunning return to power, Congress has the opportunity in 2025 to enact additional business tax cuts. One of their specific goals should be to make “full expensing”…
December 4, 2024
Back to Basics: America’s Founding, Civics, and Self-Government in K-12 Curricula
…and Leadership, University of North Carolina; Brian V. Kennedy, International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers; and Michael Weiser, Chair of the Board of Directors, Jack Miller Center. The panel…
December 2, 2024
The Pursuit of Happiness Starts with Families: A Conversation Between Brad Wilcox and Gov. Spencer Cox
…We wanted to make sure that first of all, the government wasn’t harming families. We should be encouraging and incentivizing marriage. BW: Five years ago, my colleague Michael Toscano and I…
December 2, 2024
Reforming State Authorization of Colleges to Boost Competition and Lower Tuition
…entry such as unnecessary patents, occupational licensure, and certificate-of-need laws in health care. However, some of the most daunting—and underappreciated—barriers to entry in the United States constrain competition in higher…
November 21, 2024
Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work
Summary Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) promise to improve productivity significantly, but there are many questions about how AI could affect jobs and workers. Recent technical innovations have driven the…