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Regulation
Don’t Panic: Big Tech Is Not a Villain
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November 10, 2021
Robby Soave is a boyish-looking 33 years old, but he is already establishing himself as a wise man in the techno-libertarian universe. As political warriors on the left and right attack Big Tech, largely as a proxy for fighting each other, Soave’s latest book, “Tech Panic: Why We Shouldn’t Fear Facebook and the Future,” dispenses this general advice: Chill.
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Defending Innovation Against Attacks from All Sides
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November 9, 2021
Editorial
How AI Can Make Medicine Fleet as a Fox
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November 9, 2021
Editorial
Nuclear Fusion Is Close Enough to Start Dreaming
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November 11, 2021
Editorial
Business & Economics
TV Land Economics
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November 12, 2021
Among the openly Big Government “nationalist” wing of the conservative movement, the new talking point and rationalization for government intervention is that the free market is destroying the traditional family. International trade and the rat race of keeping up with the two-income family norm has made it impossible, they say, to support a family on a single income.
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Along With Its Enormous Costs, the Child Tax Credit Discourages Work
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November 10, 2021
Editorial
Economic Pessimism Makes Sense Right Now
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November 10, 2021
Editorial
Inflation Will Make Government Budget Problems Worse
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November 11, 2021
Editorial
What is the Appropriate Role for State Antitrust Enforcement?
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November 8, 2021
Editorial
Social Issues
The Fall and Rise of the Mediators
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November 8, 2021
Extinction events in nature rivet our attention. Most children know that the dinosaurs, masters of our planet for hundreds of millions of years, disappeared with astounding rapidity, probably from the consequences of a meteor colliding with the Earth. There’s drama, even tragedy, in such colossal destruction of animal life.
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Don’t Bother Judging Florida Without Age-Adjusted Covid Stats
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November 9, 2021
Editorial
Haste Still Makes Waste, Even for Pundits
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November 11, 2021
Editorial
Podcasts
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Peter Stella on the Fiscal Theory of the Price Level
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November 8, 2021
Peter Stella is the former Head of the IMF Central Banking division and has researched and written extensively on safe assets, collateral and central bank operations. Peter now hosts a website Central Banking Archeology. Peter joins David on Macro Musings to discuss the role of money and its relationship to inflation as well as its relationship to the payment system. Specifically, David and Peter discuss the fiscal theory of the price level, how rising indebtedness can signal higher inflation in the future, the implications of the fiscal theory for contemporary fiscal and monetary policy going forward, and much more.
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Ideas of India: Water, Electricity and Female Labor Force Participation
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November 11, 2021
This episode is the fifth in a miniseries featuring young scholars entering the academic job market who discuss their latest research. In this episode, Shruti talks with Ashish Sedai about his job market paper, “Piped Water: Welfare and Empowerment: Empirical Evidence From a Gendered Analysis in India.” They discuss the importance of indoor piped drinking water and its relevance to Indian women’s participation in the labor force.
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Fortress and Frontier: Healthcare Policymakers Should Worship Change, Not Stasis
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November 12, 2021
In this eighth installment of the Fortress and Frontier series on Discourse Magazine Podcast, Robert Graboyes, a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center, speaks with David Goldhill about how to fix the incentives in healthcare, why the insurance system is outdated, why the government is a poor regulator in this industry, and much more. Goldhill is an American business executive and writer on healthcare policy. He co-founded and runs the independent healthcare marketplace organization Sesame.
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