![Next Steps in Facebook Privacy Fallout](https://cei.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Computer-Thinkstock-578x324-c-default.jpg)
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Next Steps in Facebook Privacy Fallout
Privacy policies at Facebook—and, by extension, other major online platforms—have sparked furious debate in recent days because of the revelations regarding…
![History Lesson in Technological Optimism: Simon, Jevons, and Lardner](https://cei.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/gasturbines-578x324-c-default.jpg)
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History Lesson in Technological Optimism: Simon, Jevons, and Lardner
Through his publications and scholarly work in the 1980s and 90s, the economist Julian Simon challenged the conventional wisdom and the intellectual position of the…
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Human Achievement: The Shipping Container
One of the most underappreciated drivers of the modern global economy is the humble shipping container. Widely adopted internationally in the second half of the…
![Hernando de Soto Wins Julian Simon Memorial Award](https://cei.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20a5f10866f6b865365210c6d872671d0b7221a6-578x324-c-default.jpeg)
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Hernando de Soto Wins Julian Simon Memorial Award
It is enormously gratifying that this year’s winner of the Julian Simon Award is Hernando de Soto, whose work around the world to define,…
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Include ‘Joint Employer’ Fix in Omnibus Budget Bill
The Competitive Enterprise Institute is leading a free-market coalition urging Congress to attach the Save Local Business Act (H.R. 4331) as a policy rider to the…
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CEI Submits Comments to Federal Vehicle Regulator on Automated Driving Systems
The process for modernizing federal motor vehicle safety standards needs to be improved, thereby allowing for more rapid deployment of vehicles equipped with new self-driving technology…