The outbreak of COVID-19 in early 2020 led governments around the world to adopt an extraordinary set of Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions (NPIs), including lockdowns, school closures, limits on mobility, and border restrictions. These measures were unprecedented in scale and intrusiveness, and …
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For decades, America’s dominance in technology has rested on a simple but powerful principle: permissionless innovation—the idea that individuals and …
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The widely circulated news that the EU is backtracking on the ban on selling cars with internal combustion engines in …
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For more than a century, America’s greatest strength has been its ability to attract the world’s most talented people — …
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We have witnessed a food delivery boom in the last decade, yet one such system has operated successfully for over …
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Over the past two years, a striking new force has reshaped global political movements. Generation Z—once dismissed as apathetic, distracted, …
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Index Numbers and Choice: Haberler’s Unseen Bridge between Austrian Economics and Logical Empiricism
WP 2025-12. Executive Summary This paper examines Gottfried Haberler’s early theoretical work on index numbers as a unique point of …
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Taxes and tariffs are—unsurprisingly—a major topic for economists. On one hand, they generate huge inefficiencies, deadweight losses, and perverse incentives; …