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Economics 101
Economics is all about incentives. Because people really do care about after-tax income, pro-growth economic policies really do matter. ...
‘Green Jobs’ and Half-Truth Economics
“The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in...
Freedom: It's Good Policy, Good Politics
In the wake of this month’s election, and in light of the results of a new SoonerPoll survey, it's time for one of the nation’s most con...
Personal income statistics reveal discouraging trend
"WHAT if they gave a war and nobody came?” is a familiar, if insipid, bumper sticker slogan. We propose another slogan befitting our tim...
Experts warn of future budget shortfalls at State Chamber of Oklaho...
Oklahoma’s fiscal shape could worsen next year when short-term budget enhancements disappear, experts told Oklahoma’s business community...
Better schools through better accounting
Getting real value for money is always a laudable goal, but even more so in today's tough economic environment. This is especially criti...
Bold moves proposed to help in budget crunch
Oklahoma's legislative leaders are fretting, understandably, about what state government will look like once they get finished writing t...
Newcastle student wins essay contest
NORMAN — The Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs recently announced the winners — including a Newcastle senior — of its annual $12,000 es...
More money won’t improve education
There’s a tradition in education, former New York City school chancellor Frank Macchiarola once observed, that if you spend a dollar a...
Smaller government answer to spur growth
For decades now, economists and other social scientists have researched how government policy can help build more prosperous societies. ...
How will measure help?
"There’s a tradition in education,” former New York City school chancellor Frank Macchiarola once observed, "that if you spend a dollar ...
Is the stimulus creating jobs?
OCPA research fellow Steve Anderson discusses if the stimulus package is creating jobs.
Oklahoma ranks high on migration list
The "woe is us” wagons are circling the state Capitol, but the real deals on wheels are moving vans. While our revenue woes have left a...
Don't Tread On Me
It's time for one of the nation's most conservative laboratories of democracy to stand athwart Obama-Reid-Pelosi yelling "Stop!" Also...
Oklahoma's falling revenues and rising spending has created dangero...
The American states, including Oklahoma, have a problem. The current budget and appropriations crises for state and local governments ar...
Stimulus metrics
OCPA research fellow Steve Anderson discusses Oklahoma's impractical stimulus spending report.
Purchasing reforms save state government million of dollars
Recent reforms in government purchasing have already resulted in more than $1.2 million in savings and additional reforms could result i...
High speed spending may not result in much transit
How would you like to pay $1,000 so that someone — probably not you — can ride high-speed trains less than 60 miles a year? That’s the q...
Data study stirs debate over income sources
TULSA has long crowed about its contributions to the state economy through private-sector employment. To a large extent it’s true.
