Demographics
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Why Apartments in Tokyo Are So Much Cheaper Than in NYC
Tokyo houses millions more people than New York, with a surprisingly simple affordability formula: let people build more housing.
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What Zohran Mamdani Could Learn From His Father
Mahmood Mamdani’s research showed why people often don’t behave the way central planners wish they would. His son faces a similar test in New York.
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An Aging, Shrinking Population: Must a Smaller World Be Poorer?
Humanity is approaching an unprecedented demographic turn. Can productivity outrun population decline?
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The ‘Better and Worse’ of Stephanie Coontz’s Marriage History
Stephanie Coontz’s new book succeeds as a thoughtful history of modern marriage but misdiagnoses the economic forces reshaping it.
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Where Have All the Conservatives Gone?
Left and right increasingly compete over how to wield government power rather than whether to limit it. Stephanie Slade’s ‘Fusionism’ asks whether liberty and restraint still have a constituency.
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What Payroll Revisions Reveal about the Economy
One disappointing number tells us little about recession risk. A sustained series of sizable downward revisions deserves more attention.
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Half of Students Now Get A’s, But Actual Achievement Is Declining
Your child’s report card may be sending the wrong signal. Grades and GPAs increasingly reflect institutional incentives rather than academic achievement.
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An Evergreen Warning About Social Security
A new book from Cato answers old questions: can Social Security remain solvent as lifetimes lengthen and birth rates fall?
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Social Security Is Not a Generational Contract
The rhetoric of a “generational compact” sounds compelling until you ask who actually agreed to it — and who pays for it.
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A Scientist’s Case for Diversity Through Freedom
In ‘Diversity Through Freedom,’ author Adrian Bejan argues that diversity emerges naturally from freedom and decentralized action, while imposed institutional systems distort its benefits.
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Why Apartments in Tokyo Are So Much Cheaper Than in NYC
Tokyo houses millions more people than New York, with a surprisingly simple affordability formula: let people build more housing.
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•
What Zohran Mamdani Could Learn From His Father
Mahmood Mamdani’s research showed why people often don’t behave the way central planners wish they would. His son faces a similar test in New York.
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An Aging, Shrinking Population: Must a Smaller World Be Poorer?
Humanity is approaching an unprecedented demographic turn. Can productivity outrun population decline?
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The ‘Better and Worse’ of Stephanie Coontz’s Marriage History
Stephanie Coontz’s new book succeeds as a thoughtful history of modern marriage but misdiagnoses the economic forces reshaping it.
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•
Where Have All the Conservatives Gone?
Left and right increasingly compete over how to wield government power rather than whether to limit it. Stephanie Slade’s ‘Fusionism’ asks whether liberty and restraint still have a constituency.
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What Payroll Revisions Reveal about the Economy
One disappointing number tells us little about recession risk. A sustained series of sizable downward revisions deserves more attention.
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•
Half of Students Now Get A’s, But Actual Achievement Is Declining
Your child’s report card may be sending the wrong signal. Grades and GPAs increasingly reflect institutional incentives rather than academic achievement.
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•
An Evergreen Warning About Social Security
A new book from Cato answers old questions: can Social Security remain solvent as lifetimes lengthen and birth rates fall?
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•
Social Security Is Not a Generational Contract
The rhetoric of a “generational compact” sounds compelling until you ask who actually agreed to it — and who pays for it.
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A Scientist’s Case for Diversity Through Freedom
In ‘Diversity Through Freedom,’ author Adrian Bejan argues that diversity emerges naturally from freedom and decentralized action, while imposed institutional systems distort its benefits.