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The book looks interesting. Its good that we return to discussing the dos and don’ts for policymakers. But any good "big overview" of the Washington Consensus's effects starts with the two papers here. In fact, these two works by Angus “burnt ends" Grier 🦧🍄🚀🥃 and Robin Grier and Justin Callais

NEW: The Rise and Fall of History's Greatest Civilizations - profectusmag.com/the-rise-and-f… Johan Norberg shares insights from his latest book #PeakHuman and lessons for today's society. Check out his full interview with Justin Callais.

New research by Justin Callais, Vincent Geloso, Alicia Plemmons, and Gary A. Wagner uses the Archbridge Institute's Net Productive Entrepreneurship Index to analyze migration between regions.

Or you could just…not do the tariffs?

"One of the striking lessons from history is that social mobility has never thrived in rigidly planned or stratified societies, but in open ones where talent can flow upward," writes Johan Norberg. Read his interview with Justin Callais: profectusmag.com/the-rise-and-f…

Co-authored with my usual partner in crime Justin Callais (aka Bayou Jesus) iedm.org/barriers-to-so…

Watch the press conference with Justin Callais and IEDM - MEI's Renaud Brossard here: cpac.ca/headline-polit…

This graph shows that the higher the economic freedom, the higher the income of the poorest 10% of the population.

Licensing laws are bad. Licensing boards make them worse. Read all about it in my new Cato Institute report.

Economic freedom is good for everyone. On The Cause & Effect Podcast with Vitor Melo, Archbridge chief economist Justin Callais shares insights from his research on economic freedom, inequality, poverty, and opportunity.

This paper is now forthcoming at Economic Modelling. Justin, Gary, Alicia and I show that economic freedom in the different metropolitan areas is as important as "economic connectedness" (networks between individuals) in predicting income mobility across generations

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🚨 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics goes to Mokyr, Aghion and Howitt 🚨 "for having explained innovation-driven economic growht" The best prize in years!

This is a great trio!!! I was sure Mokyr was out because Goldin and AJR won recently!

New paper by Justin Callais, Vincent Geloso, Alicia Plemmons, & Gary A. Wagner finds “Children in high-freedom [MSA’s] experience 5% to 12% more upward mobility than those in low-freedom areas,” showing that economic freedom can create greater opportunity. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

There's a podcast episode for that! See Episode 126 of Free the Economy podcast, "Tariffs and Corruption w/ Justin Callais" on YouTube: youtu.be/xDWBxBpJw30?si…