This Week in Intellectual Property, May 18th
Rent Check Arguments against increased piracy during the time of coronavirus and the National Emergency Library lean on the claim that the U.S. has never reduced copyright protection during times [...]
This Week in Occupational Licensing, May 20th
News and Commentary A new report published at Cato by Alex Nowrasteh and Michelangelo Landgrave assesses the benefits of expanding healthcare worker visas. The authors discuss new bipartisan legislation to [...]
This Week in Land Use Regulation, May 21st
News and Commentary Economic Innovation Group has a second report on neighborhood poverty in addition to the one we covered last week, forming a project on the topic as a [...]
This Week in Financial Regulation, May 19th
News and Commentary Mercatus Center’s Macro Musings podcast has a new episode interviewing Anat Admati of Stanford University. The host David Beckworth asks some insightful questions on Covid-19 and Admati [...]
Emergency Changes to Intellectual Property Law
One of the many arguments made against the National Emergency Library’s decision to make 1.4 million books available for free without a waitlist is that there are no “emergency provisions” [...]
Government Can Pick Winners, Like the Private Sector Can Pick Losers
As part of an inaugural series of blog posts for American Compass, Rob Atkinson makes the case against the "market fundamentalist" view of capture in government support of industry in [...]
This Week in Intellectual Property, May 11th
Rent Check Support for guarantees of affordability and access on a coronavirus vaccine or treatment is gaining steam, and concerns that these measures will "steal" the vaccine are misplaced and [...]
This Week in Land Use Regulation, May 14th
News and Commentary Brookings Institute has a new report on how Covid-19 might impact the impressive growth rate that has been seen in the last decade for metropolitan downtowns across [...]
This Week in Occupational Licensing, May 13th
News and Commentary Georgia’s Secretary of State announced his office will be releasing plans in the coming weeks to overhaul licensing for various trades. He believes these policy changes will [...]
We’re All Homeschoolers Now
With schools closed through the rest of the academic year and reopening in September up in the air for most districts across the U.S., the home has become the classroom. [...]