Policy Briefs

Transportation Costs and the American Dream

By Randal O'Toole
September 1, 2003

Removing Muck with Markets

A Case Study on Pollutant Trading for Cleaner Water

By Michael De Alessi
August 1, 2003

Revisiting the Public Interest in Private Water

By Don S. Evans
May 1, 2003

Clearing the Air in California

By Adrian Moore and Joel Schwartz
March 1, 2003

Commercializing Highways

A "Road-Utility" Paradigm for the 21st Century

By Robert Poole
August 1, 2002

Education Management Organizations

Growing a For-profit Education Industry with Choice, Competition, and Innovation

By Guilbert C. Hentschke, Scot Oschman and Lisa Snell
May 1, 2002

Q&A About Forests and Global Climate Change

By Kenneth P. Green
September 1, 2001

Market-oriented Approaches to Growth

Outsmarting Sprawl's Impacts

By Samuel Staley
August 1, 2001

Opening the Floodgates

Why Water Privatization Will Continue

By Robin A. Johnson and Adrian Moore
August 1, 2001

Private Options to Help Students Read

By Lisa Snell
December 1, 2000

The Vanishing Farmland Myth and the Smart-growth Agenda

By Samuel Staley
January 1, 2000

Urban-Growth Boundaries and Housing Affordability

Lessons from Portland

By Samuel Staley
October 1, 1999

“Urban Sprawl” and the Michigan Landscape

A Market-Oriented Approach

By Samuel Staley
September 1, 1999

Pennsylvania School Finance

Out of the Courts, Into the Legislature

By Richard C. Seder
October 1, 1998

Bilingual Education

Reading, Writing & Rhetoric

By Richard C. Seder
May 1, 1998

Evaluating the Kyoto Approach to Climate Change

By Kenneth P. Green
February 1, 1998

Airport Privatization Pilot Program

By Robert Poole
September 1, 1996