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JD Vance and the Dismal Science

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By Ryan Bourne
| Cato Institute Verified
Generated with ElevenLabs AI technology. (Getty Images) In a strange chapter of his new book, Communion, Vice President JD Vance laments how the “technocratic cost-benefit analysis” of economics can “crowd out your sense of right and wrong.” Vance recalls how, during a law school seminar he attended, economic reasoning was used to debate whether chattel slavery had damaged the Southern economy or instead provided output fueling the Northern states’ growth.
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The Economics of Sector-Specific Minimum Wages

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By Ryan Bourne
| Cato Institute Verified
Generated with ElevenLabs AI technology. (Getty Images) State and local governments are increasingly turning to sector-specific minimum wages. SeaTac, Washington, set a $15 floor for transportation and hospitality workers early in 2014. California set a $20 minimum for fast food workers in 2024.
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Greenspan’s greatest economic gamble is a lesson for the AI age - The Times

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By Ryan Bourne
| edition.pagesuite.com
Alan Greenspan’s death at 100 has revived old arguments about his place in economic history. To his critics he was the Federal Reserve chairman who kept money too loose for too long and missed dangers in the banking system before the financial crisis. Yet that verdict obscures an earlier chapter. In the late 1990s he was the man soon christened “the maestro” for getting a controversial economic call right.
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