The Pitch’s Half-hearted Crime Research
In a recent interview with Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas, The Pitch magazine tried its best to support the contention...
New Summary of Minimum Wage Research Shows Negative Effects
A nationwide $15 minimum wage appears to be under discussion in Washington. While they are mulling it over, policymakers might...
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...
St. Louis Ranked in the Middle in Ease-of-Doing-Business Study
The St. Louis Business Journal recently published details of a report that placed St. Louis in the top ten “untapped...
Higher Taxes = Less Innovation
When researchers at the Show-Me Institute argue that high tax burdens encourage people to leave Kansas City and St. Louis,...
Does Banning the Box Work?
WDAF TV in Kansas City recently reported that City Councilmember Jermaine Reed is seeking to expand the city’s ban-the-box initiative...
More Research on Food Deserts
I’ve written here before, skeptically, of the plans to address the so-called food desert on Kansas City’s East Side. Specifically,...
The Dismal Recovery
The “recovery” of the last seven years remains the worst in postwar American history. Average gross domestic product (GDP) growth...
New Study Shows Negative Effect for Vouchers. We’ve Got Some Explaining To Do.
After an unbroken streak of gold-standard, random assignment studies finding either positive or neutral results for school voucher programs, a...
Missouri Pensions Reward Some, Punish Others
Defined-Benefit public employee retirement systems are terrific for those who stay their full career in a single system. We all...
Ohio’s Medicaid Explosion Under Obamacare Is a Warning for Missouri
Instead of getting a handle on the cost of care and working to maximize access to medical professionals, the Affordable Care...
Show Me Better (Part 2): Certificate Of Need And Access To Care
One of the benefits of free markets is their ability to match buyers with sellers. Potential customers assess the supply...
North Kansas City Should Privatize Its Hospital
The number of government-owned and operated public hospitals in the United States has declined dramatically over the past three decades....
Letter Grades: A Hallmark Of Childhood
The Springfield News-Leader recently published an article that stated, “It’s a hallmark of childhood — the grade card, hopefully stamped...
Gooooooaaaaaaaallllll!!!!! Supply-Side Economics, 1; Missouri, Nil
As Americans, we often don’t enjoy hearing how some country in Europe is doing something better than the United States....
Obamanomics: Growing the Pie or Dividing the Pie?
Jeffrey A. Miron, senior fellow at the Cato Institute and director of undergraduate studies in the Department of Economics at...
Charter School Benefits and Research: An Interview With Dr. Caroline Hoxby
During Dr. Caroline Hoxby's recent trip to Saint Louis to speak about charter school research, she spent a few minutes...
The Promise and Performance of Charter Schools: Drivers of Educational Improvement in the U.S.?
Caroline Hoxby, Ph.D., the Scott and Donya Bommer Professor of Economics at Stanford University, spoke about "The Promise and Performance...
Smoke Screen Arguments
Yesterday, Martha King made a liberty-oriented argument against cigarette taxation, noting that cigarette taxes are imposed by a majority (nonsmokers)...
The Promise and Performance of Charter Schools
Caroline Hoxby, Ph.D., the Scott and Donya Bommer Professor of Economics at Stanford University, spoke about "The Promise and Performance...
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