Occupational licensure is a species of political favoritism, invariably enacted to protect incumbent practitioners by restricting competition.
George Leef
George Leef is director of editorial content for the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal. He holds a bachelor of arts degree from Carroll College (Waukesha, WI) and a juris doctor from Duke University School of Law. He was a vice president of the John Locke Foundation until 2003.
A regular columnist for Forbes.com, Leef was book review editor of The Freeman, published by the Foundation for Economic Education, from 1996 to 2012. He has published numerous articles in The Freeman, Reason, The Free Market, Cato Journal, The Detroit News, Independent Review, and Regulation. He writes regularly for the National Review’s The Corner blog and for SeethruEdu.com.
Let’s Cancel Student Loans – Not Forgive Them, But Cancel the Program
Higher education in the US is bloated and dysfunctional because federal meddling turned it into a mass entitlement. Turn off the federal spigot and it will rapidly improve.
Thomas Piketty’s “Time for Socialism”
Capitalism enables some people to get rich faster than others and to Piketty that’s intolerable.
College Student Loan Debt Problem: Senator Warren’s “Fix” Will Make Things Worse
Federal college subsidies have increased the cost of higher education, lowered its standards, created a labor market glut of graduates expecting “good” jobs because they’ve been to college, and led to a horde of people who can barely repay their college debt.
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