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February 20, 2024
The New Right’s Attack on Markets Is as Ignorant as the Old Left’s
…an extremely irritating stance, but that does not make it any less true. Free Markets > State Capitalism In contrast to the wealth that free markets have produced, Gregg argues,…
February 16, 2024
The Overlooked Benefits of Work-from-Home Opportunities
…market where their contributions add much to production, productivity, and living standards. Of course, there’s an important caveat. As the pandemic taught us, WFH is a luxury, usually confined to…
February 5, 2024
The Biden Administration’s War on Flexibility at Work
…just starting out or want or need flexible work schedules. From the standpoint of the economy, the rule will introduce new rigidities into an already stressed labor market. The Biden…
December 4, 2023
A Pro-Market and Pro-Social Economy
…good” can be an extremely irritating stance, but that does not make it any less true. In contrast to the wealth that free markets have produced, Gregg argues, state capitalism encourages unproductive rent-seeking behavior, elevates politics in…
December 1, 2023
Unlocking Economic Prosperity: Career Navigation in a Time of Rapid Change
…are broken in the United States, disproportionately affecting Black, Latinx, and Indigenous individuals and those from low-income backgrounds. Disrupting long-standing occupational segregation and improving outcomes for all will require a system…
November 27, 2023
How AI with “Theory of Mind” Could Help in the Workplace
…robust ToM emerges in AI systems, will the human-machine distinction be lost? Have we arrived at the abolition of man? Here I’ll insert the standard caveat: Like many technologies, AI has…
November 16, 2023
Work in a World of Abundance
…trillion sloshing around the economy, people find ways of housing, feeding, and clothing themselves without working. But life without work can be downright disastrous when looked at from standpoints like…
October 26, 2023
Working from Density
Is the COVID-19-driven surge in remote work temporary or permanent? To assess how the geography of work may evolve, we analyze the pre-pandemic status quo. Casual theorizing might suggest that…
October 25, 2023
The Freedom to Choose
…any price regardless of its costs to national independence and well-being. This idealization of one-earner families radically discounts the value of the higher living standards Americans have enjoyed over the past 75…
September 21, 2023
Testimony | Spurring Innovation in Workforce Development: Program Governance and Service Delivery
…(WIOA). Early in my career, I supported Governor Mike Leavitt in negotiating and implementing the legislation that created the Utah Department of Workforce Services, which still stands today as the…