JDA Monthly Manifesto Archive

INSIGHTS: AUTOMATION PERPETUATES THE RED-BLUE DIVIDE Guest Columnists: Mark Muro, Senior Fellow and Policy Director, Metropolitan Policy Program, Brookings Institute; Jacob Whiton, Senior Research Assistant, Metropolitan Policy Program, Brookings Institute; and Robert Maxim, Senior Research … [Read more...]

INSIGHTS: THE 2020 (US) RECESSION Guest Columnist: Antonio Fatas, the Portuguese Council Chaired Professor of Economics at INSEAD, a Senior Policy Scholar at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University, and a Research Fellow at the Center for Economic Policy Research in … [Read more...]

INSIGHTS: MONEY INTERESTS EVERYONE, SO WILL IN MONEY WE TRUST Guest Columnists: Steve Forbes, Chairman and Editor-in-Chief, Forbes Media and author, including the recently released book In Money We Trust. A ruler is always 12 inches long, a pound always weighs 16 ounces. So then why does the … [Read more...]

INSIGHTS: MAKE COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS MEANINGFUL Guest Columnists: James Broughel, Senior Research Fellow, Mercatus Center at George Mason University  Reprinted with permission from The Regulatory Review. In 1947, economist Tjalling Koopmans wrote a review of the book Measuring Business … [Read more...]

INSIGHTS: INCREASED E-CIGARETTE REGULATION INCREASES BARRIERS TO HEALTH Guest Columnist: Carrie Wade, Senior Fellow and harm reduction policy director, R Street Institute. Reprinted with permission The Food and Drug Administration has spoken, and its words have, once again, ruffled many … [Read more...]