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Europe's Farm to Fork program is supposedly about healthier food and better labeling, but it might be protectionism in disguise. Read more at The Hill. 

What is the relationship between central planning, pervasive shortages, and soft budget constraints under socialism? In this paper, we address this question by exploring the evolution of János Kornai’s work on the operation of real-world socialism. In doing so, our goal is to reframe Kornai’s contributions to the political economy of socialism by focusing on the epistemic conditions under non-market decision making. From this perspective, we argue that the dysfunction facing socialist...

Equity capital requirements could help prevent corporate bailouts from spiralling out of control. Read more at FinRegRag.

Shruti Rajagopalan is a Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center where she leads the programs Indian Political Economy Research and the Emergent Ventures India. Shruti joins David on the podcast to discuss the past, present and future of the Indian economy. Specifically, Shruti and David discuss India’s mid-20th century experiment with socialism, subsequent reforms from 1980 through the 2000s, and how further reforms to manufacturing and to land and labor markets can accelerate its...

The document guiding White House COVID policy is based on misunderstandings of public health and human nature. Read more at Bloomberg. 

Chair Hancock, Vice Chair Nichols, and members of the Senate Committee on Business and Commerce, I’m a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. By training, I am an attorney, and my research focuses on emerging technologies. I am also a member (nonvoting) of the Texas Department of Transportation’s Connected and Autonomous Vehicle Task Force and a drone law adviser to the Virginia Department of Aviation. Through that work, I have had the pleasure of...

Don't be mad at Trump for paying $750 in federal income tax. Be mad at the tax code. Read more at the New York Times. 

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Science is a helpful tool, but it never "tells" us to do anything. Read more at InsideSources. 

Both parties' obsession with stimulus spending ignores the fact that the problem with the economy isn't a lack of demand. Read more at Creators.