Health Care
What’s a Tullock Spike, and what can it teach us about forced mask-wearing?
Find out how the economic insight of offsetting behavior offers some explanation for why forced mask-wearing didn't work.
Precautionary principle
risk management strategy emphasizing caution in scientific proceedings
Research Brief
Energy
If Biden Can Support Keeping Nuclear Power Operating, Can Cooper?
With zero emissions, unrivaled reliability, and lowest costs, existing nuclear power checks all the boxes for what different people want from electricity. Losing nuclear power has been shown to increase…
Liberty
The Twelve Days of Mask Mess: Day 9
Regardless of how desirable a policymaker may view a particular action, a mathematical model's "theoretical results" with so much admitted "uncertainty" surrounding them that they should be "interpreted with caution" can…
Liberty
The Twelve Days of Mask Mess: Day 3
This study put forward by the Cooper administration warns that shutting down the economy bodes "catastrophic consequences … which ultimately will lead to more suffering, poverty, and death than the…
Research Brief
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Does Cooper’s own research justify his extreme orders? Part 3
Click for Part 1 and Part 2 of this series. To recap: The Cooper administration sent a list of 22 studies, all published this year, containing what they state is…
Liberty
The Twelve Days of Mask Mess: The first day
This series on the Locker Room will feature a different sampling from Cooper's research each day until all have been discussed. It'll examine and discuss each study, asking whether it…
Research Brief
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Does Cooper’s own research justify his extreme orders? Part 1
The question is this: Does this research offer a slam-dunk case justifying Cooper's extreme emergency orders? This series will examine and discuss each study provided by the Cooper administration and…
Elections & Public Integrity
Secure Election Integrity BEFORE Elections, Not After
America’s elections have come under much scrutiny over the past few years. Following the 2016 presidential election, investigations went underway to determine what role foreign influences could have played in…
Research Brief
Regulation
Thanksgiving week NC Threat-Free Index despite Cooper scaremongering
On November 23, moved (we’re supposed to believe) by surging cases of COVID-19 caused (we’re supposed to believe) by people not obeying his face mask order, Gov. Roy Cooper weaponized…
Energy
“Be Cautious with the Precautionary Principle”
That’s the title of a new paper by Matthew J. Neidell, Shinsuke Uchida, and Marcella Veronesi that was published by National Bureau of Economic Research this month. Here’s the abstract: This paper…
Liberty
What is a Chesterton Fence?
Duke professor Michael Munger's recent article for the American Institute for Economic Research urges caution about a rather blithe attitude we've seen lately to toss over social and political institutions…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
England Didn’t Win the World Cup, but It’s Number 1 in Vaping
Matt Ridley explains how it happened at the Rational Optimist: More people use ecigarettes in the UK than in any other European country. It’s more officially encouraged than in the…