This Week in Intellectual Property, July 22nd
News and Commentary James Stansel of PhRMA penned an opposing view in USA Today on the importance of patents to the pharmaceutical industry. It's rather uninspired, and only goes through [...]
This Week in Land-Use Regulation, July 18th
News and Commentary While the Federal government traditionally has little to do with zoning and land-use regulations, Nick Zaiac writes about the tools at HUD's disposal to liberalize regulations that [...]
This Week in Occupational Licensing, July 17th
News and Commentary The Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs now requires certified professional midwives to be licensed starting August 1st. Nurse midwives, who are licensed separately, will only [...]
This Week in Financial Regulation, July 16th
News and Commentary Charles Goodhart and Dirk Schoenmaker argue based on new research that while countercyclical capital buffers (CCyBs) and other anti-cyclical capital requirements are important tools of macroprudential policy, [...]
This Week in Intellectual Property, July 15th
Rent Check The figures the Trump Administration is relying on when calculating the costs of Chinese IP "theft" are based on some fuzzy math, even when the administration can cite [...]
Bad Math on Chinese IP Theft is Used to Justify Trade War
The current trade war is based on a number of fundamental misunderstandings about the positive-sum nature of international trade and the costs of protectionism. In one relatively minor but characteristically [...]
This Week in Land-Use Regulation, July 11th
Rent Check John Hunt has an analysis of one of the boldest statewide reforms in the U.S.: Oregon's effective ban on single-family zoning. News and Commentary As the 2020 [...]
This Week in Occupational Licensing, July 10th
News and Commentary There's nothing funny about occupational licensing, except for this Reason TV song parody by Remy. Reason Foundation's Adrian Moore criticizes Florida's current occupational licensing regime, arguing that [...]
This Week in Financial Regulation, July 9th
News and Commentary An article in IPPMedia provides an excellent outline of the relationship between financialization and broader economic growth. The financial sector is essential, and in previous decades it [...]
Oregon Effectively Ends Single-Family Zoning
The Oregon legislature just produced one of the boldest zoning reforms enacted at the state level. Taking a page from the Minneapolis 2040 plan, it effectively bans single-family zoning in [...]