Scott Weiner, a California state senator from San Francisco and its environs, has become known nationwide for pushing legislation to streamline housing construction in the Golden State. The effort ...

Understand functional regulation, its benefits, criticisms, and how it compares with institutional regulation. Learn about ...

Is the law coming for Twitter, Meta and other social media outlets? new look casting/iStock via Getty Images As an economist who studies the regulation of utilities such as electricity, gas and water, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Adam writes about state and local policy and urban economic issues. Nearly halfway through his first term, President Biden has ...

George Stigler’s 1971 paper “The Theory of Economic Regulation,” stands as an important piece of economic research. While most of the profession was convinced regulation advanced the overall public ...

As global economic pressures mount, the EU has armed itself with a powerful new tool to counter economic coercion. The EU Anti-Coercion Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2023/2675) has been fully in force ...

This paper presents statistical evidence that reducing regulations is associated with positive and significant gains in economic growth. We review economic literature that reflects a growing consensus ...

WAGE GAP CLOSES AS GOVERNMENT EMBARKS ON SOCIAL REFORMS By Thomas Clouse China announced plans last month to reduce its wealth distribution gap through a series of measures—such as raising minimum ...