This Week in Occupational Licensing, March 18th
News and Commentary A Civios podcast featuring Morris Kleiner reviews licensing issues and changes during the pandemic. Guam has assented to the Nurse Licensure Compact, becoming the first territory to do so. Mark Hyden opines in [...]
A Blast from Bezos’ Past
20 years ago last week, Jeff Bezos penned an open letter with his thoughts on patent policy. Following his conversation with Tim O'Reilly the prior week regarding Amazon’s 1-Click ordering patent, he stated in the letter: [...]
This Week in Financial Regulation, March 17th
News and Commentary Thorsten Beck and Jan Keil note in a VoxEU column that Paycheck Protection Program loans drove the increased lending seen during COVID-19. Brian Chappatta, Jesse Hamilton, and Alexandra Harris detail in the Washington [...]
This Week in Intellectual Property, March 16th
Rent Check Sean Mooney writes about how despite added exemptions to the anti-circumvention provisions of the DMCA Section 1201 in 2015, plenty of farmers are having a tough time getting the tools necessary to repair their [...]
The Growing Calls for Vaccine Liberalization
In The Washington Post, Matthew Kavanagh and Madhavi Sunder of Georgetown University called for the Biden Administration to end its objection to a pending waiver of intellectual property rights enforcement before the World Trade Organization: At [...]
This Week in Land Use Regulation, March 11th
News and Commentary The efficiency of the U.S. housing stock will be critical to electrify energy predict Parth Vaishnav and Thomas Deetjen in Niskanen commentary. Sightline Institute's Alan Durning writes that U.S. homeownership subsidies drive up [...]
We trusted nurse practitioners to handle a pandemic. Why not regular care?
In response to COVID-19, more than 20 states across the country loosened the scope-of-practice restrictions on nurse practitioners (NPs), increasing the capacity of the health care workforce to care for patients. Yet these life-saving measures have generally been left [...]
This Week in Occupational Licensing, March 11th
News and Commentary Lusine Poghosyan presents the state of nurse practitioner scope of practice reform in Niskanen commentary, recommending permanent expansion enabling flexible response to future health crises. California professionals will have an additional six months [...]
This Week in Financial Regulation, March 10th
News and Commentary Shusen Qi et al. detail in a VoxEU column how borrower information sharing is resulting in the clustering of bank branches—and bank deserts. In the Wall Street Journal, Bailey McCann reports on the [...]
Patents Aren’t Everything
Earlier this month, the Niskanen Center hosted a webinar with Charles Duan of the R Street Institute discussing the role of intellectual property in the supply of vaccinations. Later that week, I had an article in [...]