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These papers, written by Independent Institute Research Fellows, were originally published in other publications, and are republished here. For other research, please see our Policy Briefings, Working Papers, and The Independent Review.

Were COVID-19 Lockdowns Worth It? A Meta-Analysis
Steve H. Hanke, Jonas Herby, Lars Jonung  ·  December 17, 2024
Proposed Wealth Taxation Threatens Jobs, Savings, and Privacy
Lawrence J. McQuillan  ·  June 25, 2024
COVID Lessons Learned
A Retrospective After Four Years
Casey B. Mulligan, Philip G. Kerpen, Scott W. Atlas, Steve H. Hanke  ·  March 15, 2024
Dollarize Argentina: Abolish the BCRA
Steve H. Hanke, John Greenwood, OBE, Francisco Zalles  ·  November 28, 2023
Down with the Objections to Dollarization—They Are Either Wrong or Irrelevant
Steve H. Hanke  ·  November 13, 2023
Teaching the Causes of Great Depression to College Students
Evidence from History, Economics, and Economic History Textbooks
Jeremy Horpedahl, Marcus M. Witcher, Phillip W. Magness  ·  November 9, 2023
SSRN and medRxiv Censor Counter-Narrative Science
Jayanta Bhattacharya, Steve H. Hanke  ·  October 3, 2023
Why Educational Testing Is Necessary
Ze’ev Wurman  ·  March 27, 2023
The Development of Liberalism in Ukraine
Leonid A. Krasnozhon, Yuliya Yehorova  ·  November 15, 2022
Political Affiliations of Federal Reserve Economists
Emre Kuvvet  ·  March 8, 2022
What Is the Great Reset?
Michael D. Rectenwald  ·  February 28, 2022
The Right of the People to Keep and Bear Arms
The Second Amendment in the U.S. Bill of Rights
Stephen P. Halbrook  ·  February 24, 2022
A Literature Review and Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Lockdowns on COVID-19 Mortality
Steve H. Hanke, Lars Jonung, Jonas Herby  ·  February 4, 2022
Automated License Plate Readers: A Study in Failure
Groundbreaking report reveals high-tech cameras fail to catch criminals or recover stolen vehicles—but stick municipal taxpayers with huge costs.
Jonathan Hofer  ·  November 30, 2021
The Second Amendment Was Adopted to Protect Liberty, Not Slavery
A Reply to Professors Bogus and Anderson
Stephen P. Halbrook  ·  October 12, 2021
On Monetary Growth and Inflation in Leading Economies, 2021-2022
Relative Prices and the Overall Price Level
Steve H. Hanke, John Greenwood, OBE  ·  September 21, 2021
Capitalism, Slavery, and Matthew Desmond’s Low-Road Contribution to The 1619 Project
Peter A. Coclanis  ·  August 12, 2021
Mathematics Performance in San Francisco Unified School District
Evaluation of the Forced Uniform Math Assignment since 2014–15 Implementation
Ze’ev Wurman  ·  August 5, 2021
Faux Histoire of the Right to Bear Arms
Young v. Hawaii
Stephen P. Halbrook  ·  July 14, 2021
Banning America’s Rifle: An Assault on the Second Amendment?
Stephen P. Halbrook  ·  June 30, 2021
The Chicago Boys and the Revival of Classical Liberal Economics in Chile
Axel Kaiser  ·  June 11, 2021
The Progressive Era and the Family
Murray N. Rothbard  ·  December 28, 2020
Infectious Diseases and Government Growth
Christopher J. Coyne, Abigail Devereaux, Nathan P. Goodman  ·  October 6, 2020
Police Unions and Officer Privileges
Tate Fegley  ·  August 25, 2020
Breaking the Code
The State of Computer Science Education in America’s Public Schools
Ze’ev Wurman  ·  May 27, 2020


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