The High Cost of Commercial Land-Use Restrictions
Exclusionary zoning that targets housing gets more attention. But a new study highlights how restrictions on commercial uses also cause great harm.
Development Economics
Bjorn Lomborg: How Our Climate Fixation Hurts the World's Poor
The 'skeptical environmentalist' offers 12 low-cost, proven policies that he says could save 4.2 million lives and generate $1.1 trillion in new wealth every year.
Bjorn Lomborg: Why Do We Fixate on Climate Rather Helping the World's Poor?
The 'Skeptical Environmentalist' offers 12 low-cost, proven policies that he says would save 4.2 million lives and generate $1.1 trillion in new wealth every year.
Honduras Ends Its Experiment With Charter Cities
No more new ZEDEs will exist, after a unanimous congressional vote to end program; existing ZEDEs are optimistic their deals will be honored.
Can the Free Market End Global Poverty? Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz vs. NYU's William Easterly
Watch two leading development economists debate at the Soho Forum.
What's the Best Way To Make Poor Countries Rich? Joseph Stiglitz, William Easterly at Reason/Soho Forum 8/27
"Is the best way to end global poverty free markets or government action?" The Nobel laureate and former World Bank economist square off in N.Y.
Foreign Aid Is a Failure
Throwing good money at bad governments makes poor countries worse off.
Honduran 'Free Cities' Get One Step Closer to Reality
Will they provide legal innovation, or merely business-friendly regulation?
Bangladeshi Workers Need Free Markets
The corporatist status quo and Western condescension are toxic.
Why Economic Backwardness Persists
Elites prefer to rule an impoverished citizenry to not ruling at all.
Freedom Makes All the Difference
Mitt Romney's controversial comments about economic development overlooked a key variable.
Does Disease Cause Autocracy?
New studies say that lowering the rate of infection helps lead to political liberalization.
