Entries by Matthew Downhour
A Land Value Tax Can Decrease Residential Crowding, Alleviate Epidemic Disease
It is always a fraught exercise to try to anticipate the overall impact of an event before that event has even concluded, and so it is with COVID 19. However, this has not stopped plenty of people from trying. A … Read the rest
Don’t let a lack of trust lead to turmoil in trade
The global extent of the COVID-19 pandemic has led to much hand-wringing about the future of globalization. Disputes over trade in critical goods have led to predictions of a future autarky. In response to a dispute over face masks, … Read the rest
COVID-19 factors of production
The COVID-19 pandemic and the containment measures taken to control it likely will be together the seminal economic events of a generation, surpassing the financial crisis of 2008 and rivaling stagflation in importance. Indeed, unlike 2008 and like stagflation, this … Read the rest
The Great Famine, or Great Hunger, in Ireland
By Matthew Downhour
image: wikipedia St. Patrick’s Day
The Great Famine, or Great Hunger, in Ireland, which afflicted its people from 1845-49, set off a cascade of Irish immigration to the United States that continued until well into the … Read the rest
What Happened to the Freedom Dividend
by Matthew Downhour
Although he failed to garner any delegates and has suspended his campaign, Andrew Yang ran perhaps the most remarkable campaign of the primary. Despite having no political experience, and without a massive personal fortune to self-fund with, … Read the rest
Center for Property Tax Reform
