Gambling with Other People's Money: How Perverse Incentives Caused the Financial Crisis

Russ Roberts argues that leverage—using “other people’s money”—was the central cause of the crash of 2008 and that a new approach to financial crisis management is necessary.

We Shot the War: Overseas Weekly in Vietnam

Explores the legacy of Overseas Weekly, a muckraking military tabloid that covered the Vietnam War and earned a reputation as “the least popular publication at the Pentagon.”

Roots of the Issei: Exploring Early Japanese American Newspapers

Examines the emergence of key Japanese American generational terms in the early 20th century using digitized Japanese American newspapers.

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News & Articles

The Winter 2019 Issue Of Education Next Is Here!

The Winter 2019 issue of Education Next is now available in full on our website. The issue presents results from the 2018 EdNext Poll of public opinion. Among this year’s findings are rising support for increased teacher salaries and growing favor for universal school vouchers and charter schools. The twelfth annual poll also reveals how union and nonunion teachers differ on key education policy matters.
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Beware of the Big-Government Right

Oren Cass’s new book contains a flawed game plan for America.
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Lessons From The Crisis

In the years leading up to the financial crisis that began in 2007, the core of the financial system was vulnerable to major shocks emanating from any of a variety of sources. This presentation reviews the lessons from the crisis.
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