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Study: Massachusetts Should Join 45 States and Allow Prescribers to Dispense Medications
/in Featured, Health Care Policy (Federal), News, Pioneer Research, Press Releases, Press Releases: Health Care, Press Releases: Healthcare Transparency /by Editorial StaffA Pioneer Institute study shows that middlemen—commercial pharmacies and pharmacy benefit managers—add substantial costs over wholesale prices. Allowing prescribers to dispense routine drugs would save consumers money without compromising safety.
A History of Rent Control Policy in Massachusetts
/in Blog, Economic Opportunity /by Aidan EnrightWhile many may only remember the 1994 referendum and the laws that gave rise to it, rent control policies – and opposition to them – stretch back more than a century in Massachusetts. The laws themselves varied widely from era to era, but the reasons for them – housing shortages and a lack of affordability – have been consistent. State and local lawmakers have each seen rent control as a way for the government to mandate affordability in the housing market. Yet, as tempting as price controls have been, every policy of its kind has eventually gone out of favor. Often the result of those policies’ negative externalities, like housing disrepair; reductions in supply; gentrification; and the misallocation of rental […]
Prof. Lorraine Pangle on the Founders, Education, and Civics
/in Education, Featured, Podcast, US History /by Editorial StaffThis week on The Learning Curve, Lorraine Pangle, professor of political philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin, discusses how the Founding Fathers’ grounding in classical and Enlightenment thought helped shape America’s Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the role of public education as a wellspring of republican self-government.
Inventing Racial Classifications: Legacy and Limits of Discriminatory Labels
/in Featured, Podcast Hubwonk /by Editorial StaffJoe Selvaggi talks with George Mason Law Professor David E. Bernstein about his book Classified: The Untold Story of Racial Classification in America, discussing the ways in which racial definitions once used for past abuse and exclusion have evolved to become a central feature used to describe modern society.
U.K.’s Robert McCrum on P.G. Wodehouse, ‘Jeeves & Wooster,’ and April Fools’ Day
/in Education, Featured, Podcast /by Editorial StaffIn this special April Fools’ Day edition of The Learning Curve, British writer and editor Robert McCrum, discusses English comic genius P.G. Wodehouse, his inimitable prose style, and much-needed humor he brought to 1920s and ’30s Britain in the wake of World War I and the 1918 flu epidemic.