Which politicians do you trust more to micromanage your health care: federal or state? That’s the false choice presented by two versions of “federalism” intended to divide responsibility for health policy between the national government and the states.

The federal government has taken over large swaths of consumer lending, most notably the $10 trillion home mortgage and $1 trillion student lending markets. The government's share of new loans for each now approaches 100%.Government monopolies in financial services pose risks to taxpayers as well as borrowers

Tom Miller's speech at the Pioneer Institute's health care policy luncheon and The Great Experiment book launch on March 13, 2012.

Congress must use its oversight powers to ensure that the accountable care organizations (ACOs) have to play by the same rules as other providers.

Roger Noll, emeritus professor of economics at Stanford University, will deliver the 2006 AEI-Brookings Joint Center Distinguished Lecture on why regulatory reform has stalled and why certain costly regulatory practices are spreading to the rest of the world. He will discuss how politics can block beneficial reforms of regulations that...

If one wishes to capture the fundamental aspect of the cultural friendship between the two economists Luigi Einaudi (1874-1961) and Wilhelm Röpke (1899-1966), it’s important to refer to what Einaudi wrote about the German economic miracle and the Röpkianan doctrine of the social market economy.Einaudi wrote that the...

The American Constitution uses competition to promote good government and private competition. The founders regarded competitive enterprise as a critical source of prosperity and national strength. The causes of the decline of competitiveness in our political institutions are many and complex. But certainly one of them is a decline in public appreciation for the virtues of competition.