William Shughart

William F. Shughart II, research director of the Independent Institute in Oakland, Calif., is J. Fish Smith Professor in Public Choice at Utah State University’s Huntsman School of Business and editor-in-chief of Public Choice Journal.

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Jul 12, 2022

SCOTUS Properly Reined In the EPA: Will the IRS and SEC Be Next?

In the last of a series of landmark rulings issued at the end of its 2021–2022 term, the U.S. Supreme Court held that federal executive branch agencies cannot take major...
Feb 4, 2022

President Biden's Ham-Handed Misuse of Antitrust Law

As the U.S. inflation rate ramps up, obvious to many people at the grocery store and the gasoline pump, President Joe Biden has asked the Federal Trade Commission and the Justice...