Special interests go out of their way to help policymakers avoid looking at the costs of their proposals.
It’s hard to assess the economic impact of policy changes when they’re intertwined in a convoluted set of intertwined proposals.
When state government gets back just 19 cents of every dollar spent on film incentives, it’s hard to make a case that the incentives lead to an economic boon.
Those pushing renewable energy subsidies in North Carolina are using the same faulty logic that propped up the president's failed stimulus plan.
Raleigh politicians learned nothing after subsidizing the failed Mint restaurant in downtown.
If you seek to distinguish the political Right from the political Left in America, there’s no shortage of ways to do it.
"Top 10" economic principles — a major part of world politics and policies — drive the minds of economists.
Politicians' posturing and pontificating over gasoline prices are based on ignorance of economics.
It is a maxim in economics that "more is preferred to less." True, when it comes to the consumption of most goods. But sometimes, as we have seen lately in the rental car market, less appears to be prefereed to more. In an environment of high gasoline prices, consumers are flocking to energy-efficient models.
Once upon a time, I was a college student in music school and needed to purchase a metronome. A traditional old-style metronome is a handsome accessory to a home, much like a mantel clock. The problem is that these are expensive, and they don't travel well, even though musicians often need to tote them around with their other equipment.
William Lewis, in his Power of Productivity, shows how big government strangles economic progress with regulation and taxes.
