The paper, “Occupational Licensing and Labor Market Fluidity,” was published by the National Bureau of Economic Research. Here are some highlights from the authors’ summary of their findings: We use public individual level survey data from the Current Population Survey and the Survey of Income and Program…
That’s the subtitle of a recent Manhattan Institute peice by John Tierney. Here are the opening paragraphs: Lockdowns are typically portrayed as prudent precautions against Covid-19, but they are surely the most risky experiment ever conducted on the public. From the start, researchers have…
The report, which is prepared each year by the Center for the Study of Economic Liberty at Arizona State University, provides objective measures of the scale and scope of business regulations in 130 cities across 92 states, provinces, and federal districts of the U.S., Canada, and Mexico.
In an announcement sent on Wednesday to Princeton’s President, Christopher L. Eisgruber, DOE explained that the investigation had been triggered by an open letter that he sent to the university community on 9/2. From the DOE announcement: Since you became President in 2013, and in exchange…
That’s the title of a new article by Tennessee College of Law professors Penny White and Glenn Reynolds. Here’s the Abstract: Inspired by the Justice Department’s report on criminal law enforcement and the use of courts as a revenue-generation machine in Ferguson, Missouri, we address the widespread…
A soon to be released paper called “Molecular architecture of the SARS-CoV-2 virus” describes the molecular assembly of the SARS-CoV-2 virus based on “cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) and subtomogram averaging (STA).” Here’s a photo of a 3-D model:…
From the AP report: U.S. officials have for the first time approved a design for a small commercial nuclear reactor, and a Utah energy cooperative wants to build 12 of them in Idaho. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Friday approved…
