by Dan Mitchell | May 26, 2018 | Blogs, Education
Canada is a surprisingly pro-market country, with relatively sensible policies involving spending restraint, welfare reform, corporate tax reform, bank bailouts, regulatory budgeting, the tax treatment of saving, and privatization of air traffic control. And we should...
by Dan Mitchell | May 24, 2018 | Blogs, Economics
I received my Ph.D. from George Mason University in Fairfax, VA, and I have very fond memories of that experience, including interactions with great economists such as James Buchanan and Walter Williams. But not everyone has favorable views of GMU’s market-friendly...
by Dan Mitchell | May 5, 2018 | Big Government, Blogs, Education, Government Spending
Education spending and teacher pay have become big issues in certain states. Unfortunately, not for the right reason. In an ideal world, taxpayers would be demanding systemic reform because government schools are getting record amounts of money (higher than any other...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 22, 2018 | Blogs, Education
I wrote yesterday about the global evidence showing that more money does not improve the lackluster performance of government schools. Those results are not surprising because we see the same thing in the United States. More money is good for the education...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 21, 2018 | Blogs, Education
I’ve written several times about how dumping more money into government schools is not a recipe for improved education. Indeed, I would argue that this chart is the most powerful image I’ve ever seen. More and more money gets plowed into the system (even after...
