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October 15, 2024
Why Should the US Wish to Be More Like China?
…to Chinese manufacturing using protectionist measures. To take one example of many, check out this headline and subhead on a New York Times article from this spring: “How China Pulled So Far Ahead…
October 14, 2024
Another Terrible Idea: Abolishing Child Welfare
…children are experiencing longer periods of time living with abusive and neglectful families. These effects—unlike, say, the crime and disorder caused by defunding the police—are largely hidden from public view….
October 11, 2024
It’s time to face up to our social poverty problem
Over the past half-century, virtually all aspects of social life have deteriorated in America. We spend less time with fewer friends, form fewer families and have turned away from organized civic life and religious institutions. We trust…
October 9, 2024
How to Make Millionaire Teachers
…customize their career paths. It’s time for that to change. The answer is to expand opportunities for students, including those in traditional public schools, while allowing the very best and…
October 9, 2024
Learning the Right Lessons from the “China Shock”
…and Hanson-style instruments and ending their time period in 2007. They find job losses from Chinese import competition totaling 671,000 alongside export-driven job gains of 1.2 million. I argue that…
October 9, 2024
Two Cheers for California’s Ban on Legacy Admissions
…had already banned legacy admissions since 1998.) There’s a lot to like about what California just did. Research by Harvard University’s Raj Chetty has found that a legacy applicant is four times…
October 9, 2024
Kamala Harris’s Main Priority Is Expanding Welfare, Not Strengthening the Middle Class
…work or earn enough to owe federal income taxes in the first place. The biggest individual winners? Parents who don’t work at all, who for the first time received full…
October 8, 2024
Harris Housing Subsidies: A Recipe for Repeating Past Mistakes
…housing units over four years and $100 billion in down payment assistance to first-time homebuyers. Unfortunately, history tells us her plan would be worse than doing nothing. The combination of…
October 8, 2024
Unplanned Obsolescence
…emerging transportation technologies. This process is how capitalism works and how living standards rise over time. Of course, it is ironic that the computer science field, which has spent years…
October 3, 2024
The New “Old Girls Network” in the American Workplace
…between men and women in the workplace are likely to grow over time as noncognitive or “soft” skills grow in importance while manual, repetitive tasks—once common in traditional manufacturing—continue to decline. Even…