Pelican Responds to State Plan to Reopen Louisiana’s Economy

05/11/2020

Today, Gov. John Bel Edwards announced Louisiana will begin implementing Phase 1 of the federal government’s reopening guidelines on May 15. Pelican released the following statement from CEO Daniel Erspamer regarding the state’s plan to reopen Louisiana’s economy and ease lockdown restrictions. “For the last month, the Pelican Institute has urged Louisiana leaders to begin...

TAGS: COVID-19, economic policy, Economy, Freedom, Get Louisiana Working, jobs and opportunity, Liberty

State-by-State Economic Report Shows a Lackluster Louisiana

By John Kay

05/30/2013

Louisiana’s economic prospects are mediocre, according to a new report released by the American Legislative Exchange Council, which ranked the 50 states according to their economic outlook in 2013.

TAGS: ALEC, American Legislative Exchange Council, Arthur Laffer, economic policy, Jonathan Williams, Louisiana, Poor States, Rich States, Right to Work, Stephen Moore, Taxes

Antitrust & Enforcement: Letting Markets Work without Empowering Government

In their report “Antitrust & Enforcement: Letting Markets Work without Empowering Government,” Ted Bolema, Ph.D., J.D., Antitrust and Competition Fellow at the Innovators Network Foundation, and Vance Ginn, Ph.D., Chief Economist at the Pelican Institute, write that while the current frustrations with the size of large tech companies and censorship practices may be warranted, giving...

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