Poverty
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The Big Chill: Mamdani’s Rent-Freeze Fantasy
Reduced rents for some tenants aren’t worth reducing the supply and quality of housing for everyone else in the city.
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Dodger Stadium’s Dark Secret and the Human Cost of Urban Renewal
Urban renewal was not a failure of execution — it was a failure of principle. Just ask Aurora Vargas.
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From Gleaning to Growth: Ancient Lessons for Reducing Poverty
Ancient wisdom on poverty alleviation offers timeless guidance for changing how we see the poor—and how we help them escape poverty.
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The Merchant Republic: America at 249
The first nation founded on principles, not tribe, has become an economic powerhouse. Immigration, innovation, and institutions each contributed to its national greatness.
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Cash, Not Control: A Global History of Basic Income
The new book ‘Welfare for Markets’ contextualizes the centuries-long effort to disentangle social welfare investments from broken bureaucratic programs.
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The Persistence of Benefit Cliffs: A Behavioral Look at a Policy Problem
As long as benefit cliffs are treated primarily as a math problem, we will continue to miss the mark. Benefit cliffs are not just technical design flaws — they are psychological traps.
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Socialism, Not the Embargo, Explains Nearly All of Cuba’s Poverty
A synthetic control allows researchers to disentangle causal effects: the primary cause of Cuba’s poverty is its repressive socialist regime, with just 10 percent of the gap resulting from the trade embargo.
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Plastic’s Quiet Role in Defeating Poverty
If we were to stop using plastic tomorrow, global supply chains would collapse, food wouldn’t reach the people who need it in remote areas, and millions would lose access to life-saving medical supplies.
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The Poor Are Richer Than We Think: Unlocking Dead Capital
Depictions of global wealth don’t account for assets that lack formal ownership rights: the world’s poor own a mountain of capital they can’t fully put to work.
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Can Microgrants Fix Our Foreign Aid Failures?
Large scale aid dollars are usually squandered. Giving development funds directly to individuals can uplift communities.
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The Big Chill: Mamdani’s Rent-Freeze Fantasy
Reduced rents for some tenants aren’t worth reducing the supply and quality of housing for everyone else in the city.
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•
Dodger Stadium’s Dark Secret and the Human Cost of Urban Renewal
Urban renewal was not a failure of execution — it was a failure of principle. Just ask Aurora Vargas.
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•
From Gleaning to Growth: Ancient Lessons for Reducing Poverty
Ancient wisdom on poverty alleviation offers timeless guidance for changing how we see the poor—and how we help them escape poverty.
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•
The Merchant Republic: America at 249
The first nation founded on principles, not tribe, has become an economic powerhouse. Immigration, innovation, and institutions each contributed to its national greatness.
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•
Cash, Not Control: A Global History of Basic Income
The new book ‘Welfare for Markets’ contextualizes the centuries-long effort to disentangle social welfare investments from broken bureaucratic programs.
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•
The Persistence of Benefit Cliffs: A Behavioral Look at a Policy Problem
As long as benefit cliffs are treated primarily as a math problem, we will continue to miss the mark. Benefit cliffs are not just technical design flaws — they are psychological traps.
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•
Socialism, Not the Embargo, Explains Nearly All of Cuba’s Poverty
A synthetic control allows researchers to disentangle causal effects: the primary cause of Cuba’s poverty is its repressive socialist regime, with just 10 percent of the gap resulting from the trade embargo.
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•
Plastic’s Quiet Role in Defeating Poverty
If we were to stop using plastic tomorrow, global supply chains would collapse, food wouldn’t reach the people who need it in remote areas, and millions would lose access to life-saving medical supplies.
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•
The Poor Are Richer Than We Think: Unlocking Dead Capital
Depictions of global wealth don’t account for assets that lack formal ownership rights: the world’s poor own a mountain of capital they can’t fully put to work.
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Can Microgrants Fix Our Foreign Aid Failures?
Large scale aid dollars are usually squandered. Giving development funds directly to individuals can uplift communities.