Publications

Democrats want to make what's known as the gender pay gap an issue. But economists point out that when relevant factors are considered, there is little of no gap between men' and women's wages.

The economic incentives of the patent litigation system make it attractive to threaten to sue, even for the most dubious of claims—a situation not much different than that which has driven many to demand broader tort reform.

The GOP was handed an opportunity in the form of Congressman Camp’s tax reform proposal. But since its introduction the impulse to simply play to not lose has taken over many in the GOP.

Red states are doing much better at reducing the rate of unemployment than blue states, largely because they shun the president's economic policies. Ironically, by doing so they lower the national unemployment rate making the president look better.

After a wrenching policy battle, billions of taxpayer dollars and a disastrous Obamacare rollout, a new study shows the uninsured rate has dropped to the high end of its historic level. But the media jumped on it as a clear sign that Obamacare is finally working.

Since the 1970s, U.S. law has banned crude oil exports. But with new drilling techniques dramatically increasing U.S. oil production and the willingness of unfriendly countries to use oil and natural gas supplies as a foreign policy hammer, it's time to repeal that export ban.

Presentation given by IPI President Tom Giovanetti at the Cato Institute event titled "Intellectual Property in the Trans-Pacific Partnership: National Interest or Corporate Handout?"

Rasmussen recently released a survey revealing that a mere 6 percent of those surveyed thought the U.S. has the best tax system in the world.  They are wrong.

There is an interesting and close correlation between U.S. minimum wage increases and rising youth unemployment that implies that hiking to cost of labor does cost jobs.

In a connected, competitive world, innovation can happen almost anywhere. The only question is will our immigration policy keep it from happening here?