Energy

Environmental Social and Governance (ESG) Mandates in Pennsylvania

  • Gordon Tomb
  • August 24, 2023

Key Points Studies show adopting Environmental Social and Governance (ESG) criteria is not associated with better labor or environmental regulatory compliance. Emerging studies show ESG criteria are associated with lower…

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Education

What the Public Thinks of Public Schools

  • Nathan Benefield
  • September 9, 2009

Paul Peterson has a good column in today’s Wall Street Journal about the public’s perception of public schools — they are (correctly in Peterson’s judgment) unerwhelmed by school’s performance,…

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Taxes & Economy

Trashing Friedman’s Economics

  • Nathan Benefield
  • November 16, 2008

Crain's Chicago Business speculates that “failure of the free market” and “deregulation” will harm the reputation of the University of Chicago's School of Economics and of any influenced by…

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Education

Change He Can’t Believe In

  • Nathan Benefield
  • July 25, 2008

Steve Chapman writes how Barack Obama – the “candidate of change” – rejects school choice (as policy, though he doesn’t practice what he preaches), despite its success. Obama…

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Education

“Intellectual Diversity” means no Milton Friedman?

  • Nathan Benefield
  • June 23, 2008

Several University of Chicago professors are protesting the university’s plan to unveil a Milton Friedman Institute, because that would “reinforce among the public a perception that the university’s faculty…

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