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What Zimbabwe Can Learn From Chile: A Tale of Two Data Series
In 1988, when Robert Lawson was a first-year economics graduate student at Florida St…
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What Zimbabwe Can Learn From Chile: A Tale of Two Data Series
In 1988, when Robert Lawson was a first-year economics graduate student at Florida State University, he was surprised one day to look up and see Dr.…
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To Save Social Security, Stop Subsidizing Wealthy Retirees
Social Security is drifting toward a cliff, and Congress keeps pretending the shortfall will fix itself. It won’t. Absent reform, benefits will be c…
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What Makes a Good Federal Reserve Chair? It Depends on Independence
The nomination of Kevin Warsh to replace Jerome Powell as Federal Reserve Chair has many people wondering: What makes a good Fed chair? The answer, i…
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Mississippi's Literacy Miracle: How Holding Students Back Moved a Whole State Forward
A year or so ago, I met my friend’s mother for the first time at a wedding. She told me that she was Mississippi born and raised, but that after her …
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How Rome's Middle Class Lived — and What Happened When It Fell
For most of us, especially those of us who think about it a lot , the Roman Empire conjures up famous names of such men as Caesar, Augustus, Nero, Ma…
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Immigration Arrest Quotas Undermine ICE's Mission
One of the most robust findings in economics is that, with few exceptions, people respond to incentives , rather than intentions or moral principles.…
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Liberty Eroding, Gold Rising: 30 Years of Warning
Substantive change has occurred in the subjects examined in my second book, Gold and Liberty (AIER, 1995), since it was published three decades ago.…
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