Why America Can’t Build Enough Housing with Edward L. Glaeser
Susan Pendergrass speaks with Edward L.Glaeser, professor of economics at Harvard University and nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise...
Now Is Not the Time to Tinker
Last week the Missouri Senate passed Senate Bill (SB) 727—a comprehensive education bill—that, among other things, tinkers with the state...
Yes, Mayor Jones, the Earnings Tax Really Does Hinder Economic Growth
The St. Louis Business Journal had an excellent article last week on the present state of the St. Louis City...
How Unions Choose School Board Candidates with Michael Hartney
Susan Pendergrass speaks with Michael Hartney about his new latest report, Students or Salaries? How Unions Choose School Board Candidates....
Some Estimates on the Impact of Covid-19 on Small Business
A working paper by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), authored in part by Dr. Ed Glaeser of Harvard...
The War on Work with Dr. Edward Glaeser
Harvard economist and Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow Edward Glaeser appeared at Saint Louis University on May 9, 2018 as part...
Did Easier Tests Cost Normandy Students the Right to Transfer?
On December 1, 2017, the Missouri State Board of Education went into a closed session and ousted Commissioner Margie Vandeven....
Studies Show Benefits of School Choice Extend Beyond the Classroom
There’s an old joke often told by economists that goes something like this: A policeman sees a man looking for...
The Utopian Apocalypse: Silicon Valley Freaks Out over Automation
With Labor Day just around the corner, now is a good time to discuss (and, more than that, to take...
Teachers Are Great, and the Pay Isn’t Bad!
Today, I was greeted on Facebook with countless pictures of children smiling as they headed to their first day of...
Taxes for Thee, But Not For Me
A recent Kansas City Star story on the proposed Kansas City general obligation bonds, (GO Bonds) contained the following: This...
Conservatives on Campus: A Vanishing Breed?
If I were to ask you to estimate the ratio of liberal to conservative professors on college campuses across the...
About That New Home Addition . . .
Before adding a room onto your house, wouldn’t you ask yourself if the expected benefit of the addition will be...
The Infectious Optimism of Education Entrepreneurs
By disposition, I am an optimist. For a person of my particular predilections it is, to echo Dickens, the best...
The Infectious Optimism of Education Entrepreneurs
By disposition, I am an optimist. For a person of my particular predilections it is, to echo Dickens, the best...
Just How Low Cost Is Labor Reform?
If you’ve been following our work, you know that once a government union comes to power, it can stay in...
Sales Taxes will Not Save the Saint Louis Stadium Plan
This past week, the Post-Dispatch spilled some electronic ink touting a new study authored by a group of Harvard MBA...
Opportunity and Mobility in Missouri
Earlier this year, researchers from Harvard released a blockbuster study on economic mobility in the United States. The conclusion: neighborhoods...
SEMO May Embrace All-You-Can-Eat Education
Funnyman Owen Wilson describes the University of Phoenix as “the Harvard of Internet colleges” during an interview with Google in...
IFF Provides Map for “Quality” Charter Schools
IFF, a nonprofit community development financial institution based out of Chicago, released its latest widget last week. The widget is...
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