Testing Deregulation Can Help Fight COVID-19
The fight against COVID-19 would benefit from a comprehensive deregulation of the market for testing. A brief look at India shows the damaging roadblocks to solutions that regulations impose.
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Testing Deregulation Can Help Fight COVID-19
Many argue that unregulated markets would fail due to lack of consumer knowledge, or information asymmetry. But competition in free markets actually gives rise to all kinds of mechanisms that help consumers make informed decisions. This is as true of medical tests for any other good.
What to Make of J.P.A. Ioannidis?
Accad, Koka, and guests discuss the controversies surrounding the COVID-related opinions and research findings of John. P.A. Ioannidis, the notorious Stanford data scientist and physician.
The Crisis Has Exposed the Damage Done by Government Regulations
The shortages and lack of flexibility caused by government red tape during the COVID-19 crisis has forced many governments to rethink their many arbitrary and unnecessary regulations.
COVID in India: Relative Peace Amidst Ongoing Challenges
Dr. Anupam Singh discusses the surprising aspects of the pandemic in the Indian subcontinent.
Avik Roy: A Practical Plan to Bring People Back to Work
Should we wait for COVID testing benchmarks to be met before we can reopen the economy? Avik Roy, head of the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity, discusses FREOPP’s plan to bring people back to work.
How Markets Price a Pandemic—and How They Lower Risk
Regardless of government actions, many consumers, workers, and producers may seek changes that reduce exposure to disease in the workplace. The best way to do this is through markets.
How Markets Price a Pandemic—and How They Lower Risk
Regardless of government actions, many consumers, workers, and producers may seek changes that reduce exposure to disease in the workplace. The best way to do this is through markets.
Anthony Fauci: When Politics Trumps Science
Readers of a certain age may remember the hysteria that surrounded AIDS for a period of the 1980s. Anthony Fauci was a central player in that, too.
In Defense of Landlords
Although it may seem as if landlord simply collect money from tenants without working, nothing could be further from the truth. Landlords invest their stored labor—savings—at a risk and with the knowledge that they won't recoup their money for some time. In the creating or renovating rental properties, they aid those who can't store their labor yet—tenants and laborers.
