Labor Day is the right time to remember that we can make workers vastly better off by empowering more of them to vote with their feet, both within countries and through international migration.
Needing permission to travel hands a dangerous tool to authoritarians.
Economist Tyler Cowen argues the answer is "yes." But much depends on what kind of mobility we're talking about.
Walz is wrong to attack Vance for leaving home to go to Yale. Vance is wrong to support policies that would close off similar opportunities to others.
There’s less reason to fight when one-size-fits-all policies are replaced with local diversity.
It is part of Cato's Defending Globalization series.
Today is the 45th anniversary of the Somin family's arrival in America.
The anniversary is today. The American Journal of Law and Equality is publishing a symposium on Brown to mark the occasion. I am one of the contributors.
The decision addresses an important issue left open by the Supreme Court's decision reversing Roe v. Wade.
My contribution to the American Journal of Law and Equality symposium on the 70th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education.
Carlson praises Russia's supposed abundance and high living standards. Hundreds of thousands of Russians fleeing Putin's regime think otherwise.
Coauthor Josh Braver and I argue exclusionary zoning violates the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment.
It's part of the annual Frankel Lecture symposium in the Houston Law Review.
The book argues democracy can be preserved and improved by breaking up the United States into two or more new nations.
Lower taxes create opportunities that draw even those not consciously considering tax rates.
This speech, which I gave at a Federalist Society conference, is now available in a written version on SSRN. It will be published by the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy.
Some estimates suggest the number of abortions has even increased.
Labor Day is the right time to remember that we can make workers vastly better off by empowering more of them to vote with their feet, both within countries and through international migration.
Current culture wars are just one more manifestation of the reality that public education routinely devolves into indoctrination and imposition of majoritarian ideology on dissenters. But school choice can help mitigate that problem.
British immigration policy expert Sunder Katwala and I discuss the debate over UK immigration policy, which has notable similarities and differences with that in the US.
The authors raise some reasonable issues. But they misunderstand both the libertarians they critique and the problem of political ignorance itself.
Unliking zoning, private communities respect property rights, and do not create major barriers to people seeking to "vote with their feet" for a better community.
A new Pew Charitable Trusts study examining jurisdictions with that reformed zoning finds far lower rent increases there than elsewhere.
Plus: What the editors hate most about the IRS and tax day
Are political breakups really as American as apple pie?
At least until all the gasoline is gone.
Second in a two-part series published by Australian Outlook, a publication of the Australian Institute for International Affairs.
It examines whether people are likely to "vote with their feet" based on interstate differences in abortion policy, after Dobbs. The first in a series of two articles on this topic.
Politicians lean on the financial industry to target activities they don’t like.
Economist Bryan Caplan explains how cutting back on zoning and other restrictions could create millions of new jobs for workers - on top of other beneficial effects.
California's economy is growing despite Gov. Gavin Newsom's policies, not because of them.
Barack Obama could have been referring to our community, when he said that “[t]he most liberal communities in the country aren’t that liberal when it comes to affordable housing.”
Washington Post columnist Keith Richburg explains how foot voting patterns are a strong indicator of the relative appeal of governments.
Labor Day is the right time to remember that we can make workers vastly better off by empowering more of them to vote with their feet.
Fifth post in the symposium on the National Constitution Center "Restoring the Guardrails of Democracy" project. Walter Olson of Team Libertarian comments on similarities and differences between the three reports.
Third post in the symposium on the National Constitution Center "Restoring the Guardrails of Democracy" project. Walter Olson presents the Team Libertarian Report.
We won't know the answer for some time. I suspect the drain will be relatively small, if we focus on abortion bans, as such. But it may get larger if anti-abortion laws end up having substantial negative side-effects on other activities.
An important new study finds that immigrants and their children succeed in large part by being more willing to move to opportunity than the native-born.
Video of presentations by the leaders of the Conservative, Libertarian, and Progressive Teams. Plus, my thoughts on a comparison of the three reports by Progressive Team leader Ned Foley.
I coauthored the report with Clark Neily and Walter Olson, both of the Cato Institute.
The project includes reports by conservative, libertarian, and progressive teams. I am coauthor of the Team Libertarian report.
This makes it likely, though not certain, that the Supreme Court will strike down such laws if states enact them.
Even if the value of their property goes down, current homeowners still often have much to gain from breaking down barriers to new housing construction.
June 6 is not only the anniversary of D-Day, but also of the Somin family's arrival in America, back in 1979. This post reprints my reflections on that milestone, which I hope remain relevant today.
The answer is probably "no." But the federal government could more easily ban such transactions.
Atlantic writer Jerusalem Demsas argues that blue states can't give "refuge" to people fleeing abortion restrictions if they don't cut back on zoning restrictions that lead to sky-high housing costs.
The answer to this important question is highly uncertain. I tentatively predict a significant, but still modest, increase in abortion-driven migration.
San Francisco lost a whopping 6.7 percent of its population during the COVID-19 pandemic, the second-largest percentage drop after New York.
