<some comments of mine from an email discussion with colleagues> I must admit I’m pretty puzzled by suggestions there’s a grocery store cartel in the US or by questions about whether there should be a national grocery store chain. By all appearances, the grocery store business is highly competitive, there are few barriers to entry […]
Women more empowered to pursue career aspirations in developed countries
Fascinating study across 80 countries that both confirms a finding from many previous studies (more boys than girls aspire to a things-oriented or STEM occupation and more girls than boys to a people-oriented occupation) and has an important counterintuitive finding: Women’s empowerment is associated with relatively high levels of national wealth and this wealth allows […]
Virtual schooling led to dramatic learning loss
New data from Texas shows that regardless of economic status or race, enormous numbers of students who learned virtually for the majority of the past school year experienced a dramatic learning loss. This learning loss was most pronounced for Black and Hispanic students. This outcome is tragic given that schools that reopened for in-person instruction […]
Unleashing New Zealand’s Potential and Suppressing Washington State’s—Lessons for Texas
<This speech was delivered to the Dallas Chapter of the Bastiat Society on June 17, 2021> In 1847, French economist Frédéric Bastiat, this society’s namesake, published a facetious petition to the king now known as “The Right Hand and the Left”. In it he laid bare the fallacy of some of his contemporaries that if […]
When CEOs don’t stand up for free markets
<This op-ed first appeared in the Washington Examiner on April 25, 2021> It’s one thing for business leaders to sit out policy debates, but it’s quite another for them to argue for policies that will harm long-term shareholder interests. Yet that’s what we’re witnessing today with the likes of Amazon’s Jeff Bezos supporting raising the […]
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