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Policy articles analyzing social and public policy including impacts on economics, open dialog, and social life. Articles on the topic of policy at Brownstone Institute are translated into multiple languages.

The Trajectory of Emergency Lands on Price Controls

The Trajectory of Emergency Lands on Price Controls

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We seemed doomed to watch the same old errors unfold before our eyes, in a natural trajectory of folly from money printing to inflation to price controls, just as from universal quarantines to growing ill-health, education losses, and population demoralization.

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Questions about New Amendments to the 2024 IHRs

Questions about New Amendments to the 2024 IHRs

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On June 1, 2024, the World Health Assembly (WHA) adopted a series of new amendments to the International Health Regulations (IHRs). The World Health Organization proclaimed that these amendments will “build on lessons learned from several global health emergencies.”

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Same Pig, Different Lipstick: Covid and the Green Revolution

Same Pig, Different Lipstick: Covid and the Green Revolution

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In agriculture, public health, and medicine, we should stop envisioning magic technological bullets that empower governments more than they benefit their purported target populations. We should consider not only the ostensible short-term benefits of interventions but also the broader costs.

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