Alex Tabarrok is a professor of economics at George Mason University. He blogs at Marginal Revolution with Tyler Cowen.
A recent study found that 36% of the firms studied that had discriminated in hiring had failed while only 17% of the non-discriminatory firms failed.
The DoJ has told UC Berkely that unless all have access, none can.
Tokyo built more new housing in 2014 than the entire state of California or country of England.
The argument that copyright encourages innovation is simply a pretense for protectionism.
It's been used for decades in Japan, and it instantly stops hypersensitivity and tooth decay, as well as preventing cavities.
Organ markets are illegal, but sophisticated barter is chipping away at the kidney shortage.
Laissez-faire for new technologies is the norm, as it should be.
It's time to think seriously about incentive problems for artificial intelligence.
A study from the left-leaning Urban Institute finds that the middle class is shrinking because it's getting richer.
A large new study finds that banning criminal history questions increases racial discrimination in job callbacks.
The least protected car is safer than the safest motorcycle.
Life expectancy has increased dramatically, and child mortality is way down, especially for poor counties.
Guru tells the story of India's liberation, not from colonialism but from socialism.
Iran is the size of Turkey but has only half the GDP per capita; here's how to change that.
Out of control housing costs discourage poor people from moving to rich places.
Why are there poor Muslim ghettos in Europe but not in the United States?
Migration is down at the exact time that it has become more necessary than ever.
Uber drivers carry more passengers per mile or per hour worked than do traditional cabs.
Buses are safer than cars by a factor of 60, but people don't like to ride them.
If studies don’t replicate, they aren't useful; if they only replicate under extremely precise conditions, they still aren't useful.
Why are people so much happier on the weekends? It isn't just time off work.
Licenses create virtual roadblocks for workers trying to cross state lines.
From 2008 to 2014, the price of the most commonly used generic drugs fell by 63 percent.
Bee-less honey will save bees the same way that the internal combustion engine saved horses and buggies.
Moving the curfew from midnight to 11 pm is associated with a 150% increase in gun fire during that hour.
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