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- Minimum-Lot-Size Regulations Limit Housing Supply in Texas https://www.mercatus.org/students/research/research-papers/do-minimum-lot-size-regulations-limit-housing-supply-texas 8 comments
- Why are the prices so damn high https://www.mercatus.org/publications/healthcare/why-are-prices-so-damn-high 2 comments
- Liberalizing Land Use Regulations: The Case of Houston (2020) https://www.mercatus.org/publications/urban-economics/liberalizing-land-use-regulations-case-houston 279 comments
- Systems and Constraints https://www.mercatus.org/bridge/commentary/systems-and-constraints 5 comments
- Do Masculine Names Help Female Lawyers Become Judges? Evidence from S. Carolina http://mercatus.org/sites/default/files/coffey-mclaughlin_masculine-names-aler-2009.pdf 12 comments
- The Five Channels of Debt Reduction: Economic and Policy Tools for Reducing the Debt-to-GDP Ratio https://www.mercatus.org/publications/debt/five-channels-debt-reduction-economic-and-policy-tools-reducing-debt-gdp-ratio 5 comments economics
- How to Ensure That Inflation Will Remain at the Federal Reserve’s 2 Percent Target https://www.mercatus.org/publications/monetary-policy/how-ensure-inflation-will-remain-federal-reserve%E2%80%99s-2-percent-target 62 comments economics
- Does the United States Need a More Targeted Industrial Policy for High Tech? https://www.mercatus.org/publications/industrial-policy/does-united-states-need-more-targeted-industrial-policy-high-tech 3 comments technology
- Mercatus Center study: “[S]tates that opted out of the federal expansion to UI saw faster employment growth than states that did not” https://www.mercatus.org/publications/unemployment/covid-19-expanded-unemployment-insurance-benefits-may-have-discouraged 11 comments economics
- The Kelo Case Provides a Strong Legal Argument for Takings Clause Lockdown Compensation https://www.mercatus.org/bridge/commentary/kelo-case-provides-strong-legal-argument-takings-clause-lockdown-compensation 3 comments law
- Declining Teen Employment: Minimum Wages, Other Explanations, and Implications for Human Capital Investment https://www.mercatus.org/publications/declining-teen-employment-minimum-wage-human-capital-investment 5 comments economy
- Net US Immigration Rate Well within Historical Norm https://www.mercatus.org/publications/net-us-immigration-rate-well-within-historical-norm 3 comments politics
- Study: Federal regulations over the last few decades has made the average American $13,000 poorer than they otherwise would have been. http://mercatus.org/sites/default/files/coffey-cumulative-cost-regs-v3.pdf 4 comments economy
- Apple Is Right to Defy the FBI over Phone Encryption http://mercatus.org/expert_commentary/apple-right-defy-fbi-over-phone-encryption?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=commentary&utm_campaign=tpp 5 comments politics
- Weathering the Next Recession: How Prepared Are the 50 States? http://mercatus.org/publication/weathering-next-recession-how-prepared-are-50-states?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=research&utm_campaign=slpp 6 comments politics
- Corporations Are Trying to Escape from High US Taxes http://mercatus.org/publication/corporations-are-trying-escape-high-us-taxes?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=chart&utm_campaign=sbi 5 comments politics
- Way to go Chris Christie- NJ ranked 49th!!! http://mercatus.org/statefiscalrankings/newjersey 6 comments politics
- Improper Federal Payments Waste over $100 Billion in 2012 http://mercatus.org/publication/improper-federal-payments-waste-over-100-billion-2012 11 comments politics
- The sequester in one simple graph courtesy of the CBO data. http://mercatus.org/sites/default/files/fed-spend-without-with-sequester-fixed-1%20copy.png 14 comments moderatepolitics
- Social media should NOT be regulated! http://mercatus.org/publication/perils-classifying-social-media-platforms-public-utilities 3 comments politics
- How free is your state? http://mercatus.org/freedom-50-states-2011 4 comments politics
- Good news, everyone! Social Security is broke. In 2010, Social Security will pay out more in benefits than it collects. http://mercatus.org/publication/social-security-cash-flow-deficit 7 comments reddit.com
- Conservative claims stimulus funding was disproportionately directed towards Dem districts. But wouldn't GOP districts NOT want to be tainted by socialist handouts? http://mercatus.org/publication/stimulus-facts-1 7 comments politics
- Why economic literacy matters - the dangers of popular economic fallacies (pdf) http://www.mercatus.org/repository/doclib/20061011_straight_talk_about_economic_literacy.pdf 10 comments reddit.com