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Renewing the Partnership Between Government and Entrepreneurs
Blog Post
AEIdeas

Renewing the Partnership Between Government and Entrepreneurs

Our government grapples with challenges that demand quick solutions and decisive action. However, the government’s structure often lacks the necessary incentives to drive innovation. How can venture capital principles be…

Letter to the Editor: The Benefits of Carbon Emissions Outweigh the Costs
Op-Ed
The Wall Street Journal

Letter to the Editor: The Benefits of Carbon Emissions Outweigh the Costs

FacebookTwitterLinkedIn In a useful op-ed pointing out the endless series of falsehoods promoted by climate alarmists over the years (“Polar Bears, Dead Coral and Other Climate Fictions,” Aug. 1), Bjorn Lomborg asserts…

The Four Fault Lines in AI Policy
Book
The Dispatch

The Four Fault Lines in AI Policy

For a while in my life, I thought I wanted to be a communications professor. I even pursued a master’s in new media and communication studies for two years. That…

We’ll Always Have Paris
Article
The Honest Broker

We’ll Always Have Paris

In 2015, countries around the world met in Paris at the 21st Conference of Parties to the U.N Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) where they agreed to limit global temperature increases…

Data Center Electricity Use III: Make or Buy?
Article
Knowledge Problem

Data Center Electricity Use III: Make or Buy?

The exponential growth of data centers, driven by the burgeoning demand for cloud services, AI computations, and big data analytics, has increased electricity consumption significantly. In the first two posts…

No, Debates over Artificial Intelligence Regulation Do Not Preclude Digital Trade Rules Negotiations
Blog Post
AEIdeas

No, Debates over Artificial Intelligence Regulation Do Not Preclude Digital Trade Rules Negotiations

In her unceasing campaign to forestall new international rules for digital trade, US Trade Representative (USTR) Katherine Tai has seized upon a new rationale: the need to forge a new…

Lax Merger Enforcement Is a Myth
Blog Post
AEIdeas

Lax Merger Enforcement Is a Myth

Sometimes a false narrative is repeated so often that people accept it as true. This has been the situation with mergers in the US, where numerous government officials, some academics, and others have accepted and…

Looking at Loper Bright More Broadly
Blog Post
AEIdeas

Looking at Loper Bright More Broadly

Everything is right in my colleague Daniel Lyons’s recent post “Net Neutrality, and Other FCC Initiatives Jeopardized Post-Chevron,” covering practical upshots of the Chevron doctrine’s end at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).…

Observations on the Pomerleaus’ New Argument for a Carbon Tax
Working Paper
AEI

Observations on the Pomerleaus’ New Argument for a Carbon Tax

Summary My colleagues Kyle Pomerleau and Shuting Pomerleau propose a “carbon”(greenhouse gas emissions) tax as a fiscal tool with which to finance an extension of theindividual income tax reductions implemented…

The Right to Listen: Wrongly Rejected in Murthy v. Missouri?
Blog Post
AEIdeas

The Right to Listen: Wrongly Rejected in Murthy v. Missouri?

The US Supreme Court this year ruled on three cases—Lindke v. Freed, Murthy v. Missouri, and Moody v. NetChoice—affecting social media platforms and the First Amendment’sguarantee of free expression. While prior posts encapsulated the decisions…

James C. Scott, Legibility, and the Omnipresence of Tech
Article
The Dispatch

James C. Scott, Legibility, and the Omnipresence of Tech

Last week, political scientist James C. Scott passed away. Scott’s 1998 book, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed, easily ranks near the top of…

It’s All About the Base(line)
Article
The Honest Broker

It’s All About the Base(line)

This is Part 5 in the THB series — Climate Fueled Extreme Weather. You can find Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 3 here, and Part 4 here. Each can be read on…

Renewing the Partnership Between Government and Entrepreneurs (with Arun Gupta)
Podcast

Renewing the Partnership Between Government and Entrepreneurs (with Arun Gupta)

Our government grapples with challenges that demand quick solutions and decisive action. However, the government’s structure often lacks the necessary incentives to drive innovation. This is where Arun Gupta comes in, emphasizing…

Why Climate Misinformation Persists
Article
The Honest Broker

Why Climate Misinformation Persists

In 2001, I participated in a roundtable discussion hosted at the headquarters of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) with a group of U.S. Senators, the Secretary of Treasury, and…

NetChoice and the Art of the Facial Challenge
Blog Post
AEIdeas

NetChoice and the Art of the Facial Challenge

Social media companies found much to like in last month’s blockbuster Moody v. NetChoice decision. Facing legislation that would have forced Facebook, X, and others to carry content against the companies’ will,…