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President Attacks Consumers with Amazon Tweet
“Amazon is doing great damage to tax paying retailers. Towns, cities and states throughout the U.S. are being hurt – many jobs being lost!” –… -
Ed School Enrollment and the Limits of Public Policy
Media outlets reported that enrollment in UNC education schools increased last year. WUNC initially reported that it was a 16 percent jump, but… -
District Enrollment Dips as Charters Surge
Last week, the N.C. Department of Public Instruction published the final enrollment numbers for the 2016-17 school year. Overall, there was a nearly 4,500-student or…
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What Do Schools Teach about N.C. Monuments and Statues?
With news that a few socialist punks toppled a Confederate memorial statue in Durham, I thought it would be a good time to review… -
How to Reduce Taxes on Savings
Americans spent 2.6 percent more on goods and services after adjusting for inflation in the three months through June than in the same period… -
A Regulatory Reform That’s Working: Sunset Provisions with Periodic Review
When the General Assembly passed the Regulatory Reform Act of 2013, legislators gave the state an effective, empirically tested red-tape reduction measure: sunset provisions…
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Was John Locke the First ‘Modern’ Economist?
Michael Munger: Professor of Political Science, and Director of the PPE Certificate Program at Duke University
Much of the attention of scholars has focused on two of Locke’s works–The Second Treatise and the Letter on Toleration. And these are indeed important. But an almost unknown work of Locke, “Venditio,” provides some fascinating insights into just how modern…
