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What does the case of Peru have to teach us about state capacity to foster (or hamper) human flourishing? Edwar Escalante of Angelo State University discusses the upsides and downsides of increasing state capacity.

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So absent strong evidence that school choice has non‐​trivial negatives, shouldn’t more choice be the default?

Aside from criminal justice concerns, singling out menthol tobacco for a ban lacks a basis in scientific evidence.

Jack Solowey and Jennifer J. Schulp

Long before Bitcoin, Ethereum, or DAOs, the U.S. banking industry had its own form of decentralized governance: the dual‐​banking system. Under this system, banks can be chartered and, with some important caveats, supervised at either the state or the federal level.

When U.S. Senators Cynthia Lummis (R‑WY) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D‑NY) introduced their stablecoin regulation bill on April 17... Читать дальше...

Colin Grabow

America’s enthusiasm for open international trade and the political will to beat back protectionist interests has been an on‐​again, off‐​again thing since… practically forever. But there’s protectionism and there’s protectionism with a capital P. Few variations of it yield such limited, narrowly enjoyed benefits at such a high cost to the rest of us as the Jones Act. For over a century the waterborne movement of goods within the United States has been subject to the act ... Читать дальше...