The following excerpt comes from an article in the Christian Science Monitor about Arne Duncan’s approach to education policy: Indeed, […]
Lisa Snyder watches her neighbors’ children for less than an hour every day while they wait for the school bus. […]
Alex Tabarrok is blogging about merit pay for teachers. An experiment in India found that incentives for teachers have a […]
I was quoted this morning in the University of Missouri–Columbia’s student newspaper, The Maneater, as part of a story about […]
A couple of weeks ago, the Show-Me Institute hosted events in Kansas City and St. Louis at which Jeff Benedict […]
Dan Pink argues in this talk that extrinsic rewards like bonuses don’t motivate people to do well when charged with […]
Today, we released a new study about the proposed high-speed rail corridor that, if constructed, would connect Saint Louis, Kansas […]
As the saying goes, if all of the world’s economists were laid end to end, they wouldn’t reach a conclusion. […]
It is a delicious coincidence that the Show-Me Institute is bringing the Antiplanner himself, Randal O’Toole, to St. Louis on […]
Combest today links to a great editorial in the Kansas City Star advocating that we pay for the proposed truck-only […]
Today’s Springfield News-Leader has a rebuttal to a prior op-ed that quoted some information from the Show-Me Institute. The topic […]
There’s an article in the Chicago Sun-Times about the state of the taxi industry in the Windy City, and how […]
The definition of rent-seeking behavior: The expenditure of resources in order to bring about an uncompensated transfer of goods or […]
This statement, attributed to a woman who posted a video online of kindergartners chanting praises to the president, is unbelievable: […]
How would you like it if the governor watched you fall off your bike and then told you, “You really […]
Combest has a number of links to articles today about Sen. Claire McCaskill’s repeated targeting of the earmark process in […]
The above quote is from a post on Diner’s Journal about the federal government’s endorsement of locavores. Actually, it’s more […]
When we were still dating, my wife once said to me: “I don’t like to be told ‘no.’” “No” is […]
On Monday, in “Let Them Drink Water!,” Daniel Engber talked about the regressive nature of selective taxes on soda and […]
“This earth imposes no additional taxes.” So wrote the prescient Franklin P. Adams. The proposed soda tax is all over […]
