Budget, Taxation & Economy
How California environmental overregulation caused “Containergeddon”
"The bottleneck in California (caused by that state’s stringent emissions laws) led directly to bottlenecks at every other port in America."
Economics in One Lesson
Research Brief
Budget, Taxation & Economy
The Unintended Consequences of Franksgiving
In 1946, a journalist knew economics. That journalist was Henry Hazlitt, one of the 20th century’s most influential economic thinkers. That year was when he published a book called Economics…
Liberty
20 Years of Agenda
20 Years of Agenda
Regulation
Short book examines law of unintended consequences
Regular readers in this forum are familiar with the law of unintended consequences. Those who would like to read more examples of the law in action can find them in…
Liberty
Fund examines Reagan’s economic mentors
Where did New Deal Democrat Ronald Reagan come up with all of those free-market ideas that he espoused once entering the political arena in the 1960s? John Fund investigates for…
Liberty
The broken window fallacy as applied to Obamacare
Tucked within John Hayward’s interesting Human Events article about a government shakedown for money used to promote the Affordable Care Act is this little nugget: Crucially, the media’s aggressive shredding…
Energy
The importance of context
The News & Observer offered a generally fair representation of N.C. Environment and Natural Resources Secretary John Skvarla’s speech this week to the John Locke Foundation’s Shaftesbury Society, but one…
Liberty
Thinking beyond the short term
Anyone who has read Henry Hazlitt’s classic Economics In One Lesson knows the importance of thinking beyond the short-term impact of a particular decision. Gene Epstein’s latest “Economic Beat” column…
Liberty
The flipside of the usual discussion of the law of unintended consequences
It’s not uncommon for right-of-center political commentators to discuss unintended consequences. In this venue, you’ll often find references to Bastiat‘s discussion of what is seen and what is unseen, a…
Liberty
Re: William Peterson RIP
Regular Locker Room readers might recall that William Peterson spoke multiple times to the John Locke Foundation’s Shaftesbury Society, including a 2007 presentation on the importance of “self-interest.” In 2006,…
Liberty
Seeing the unseen from ObamaCare and other administration policies?
Delve into the Winston-Salem Journal‘s article about Novant Health’s decision to cut 289 jobs — with the largest impact in Winston-Salem — and you’ll find the following: [Novant president and…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
When is a tax increase a jobs plan?
View in your browser. When a politician is campaigning, of course. Welcome to the premier newsletter from the new fiscal specialist on staff with the John Locke Foundation. Each week,…