Research Briefs: Why Rent Control Backfires
Three professors on what the research says about capping rents
Theme in liberalism
Markets & Prosperity
8 Essays
Research Briefs: Why Rent Control Backfires
Three professors on what the research says about capping rents
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The Lake Tahoe Paradox
From fragmentation to the promise of rural civil society
The National Security Externality Can’t Justify Recent Tariffs
National security may justify some kinds of tariffs—in theory. In practice, it’s another story.
The Eighteenth Brumaire and Collective Wrong
What Napoleon’s nephew can teach us about populism.
Liberalism in the Age of Weaponized Interdependence
Liberalism must abandon the assumption that, in international trade, cooperation is the mature stage, and conflict the primitive one.
Private Property, Liberalism, and Human Flourishing
Private property enables individuals to pursue happiness through their own free choices. It also shields our individual and institutional projects from arbitrary power.
Realism, Idealism, and a Balanced Foreign Policy
The last thirty years have been a time of extremes in American foreign policy. How can liberals get the balance right?
Seeing with Two I’s: States, Markets, and Some Advice for Us Liberals
Markets may fail; governments may help. But much about market activity will forever be invisible. A pair of unlikely thinkers helps illustrate the limits of what we know and the need for epistemic humility.
