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Selected Articles by Bill Conerly

Business Strategy | Investments | Public Policy

Business Strategy

Business Uses for Web 2.0:  How Companies Can Help Their Customers and Their Employees While Cutting CostsThis article is for mainstream businesses, not only Internet or high tech companies.  A transcript from the Businomics Audio Magazine.

Economic Contingency Planning for trade associations--how to deal with recessions or near-recessions, was the topic of this article in Association News.

"Community Bank Challenges in 2006--And How to Overcome Them" is a short article about just that.  Read it here.

European Unemployment: Lessons for the United States" (pdf file) was published by the National Center for Policy Analysis.

"Businesses Strategies for Higher Fuel Prices" (pdf, 77K).

Bill reviewed Hernando de Soto's book, The Mystery of Capital, in a recent issue of Ideas on Liberty. On the subject of poor residents of the third world, Bill's conclusion:"...poor people do have property and can accumulate capital. But the poor cannot realize their potential because of the conflict between their real but extralegal claims and the unreal but legal property systems. ...The Mystery of Capital demonstrates that property rights must never be taken for granted."

"The Importance of Feedback" (pdf file, 12K), was published in the December 2001 issue of Ideas on Liberty (published by the Foundation for Economic Education).

Is Your Incentive System Working for You? A short article.

"E-Com Econ: The Economics of Electronic Commerce" (pdf, 100K) published by the investment firm Pacific Crest Securities.

Investments

"What We've Learned About Investments from Enron and the Tech Collapse" is an article based on one of Bill's recent presentations, available in pdf format.

"Investment Planning and Employee Stock Options," The Oregon Certified Public Accountant, Oregon Society of Certified Public Accountants, January 1998.

Public Policy

Foreign aid ignores the actual causes of poverty in Africa: corrupt governments and lack of economic freedom. Read the article by Bruce Smith and Bill Conerly in the October 2005 issue of BrainstormNW Magazine (pdf file).

The capital gains tax in Oregon was the subject of Bill's report, "Generating Jobs and Income Through a Capital Gains Tax Reduction,"  published by the AOI Foundation.  Read it here (15MB pdf).

The Benefits from Unlocking SAIF: Why Oregon Should Open Its Workers' Compensation Market (pdf file), Cascade Policy Institute, March 2003.

"Allowing the States to Innovate," (pdf file), Regulation Magazine, Spring 2003.

Bill's op-ed about Personal Reemployment Accounts was published in the Washington Times. Bill's take in a nutshell: a small experiment with great potential.

European Unemployment: Lessons for the United States" (pdf file) was published by the National Center for Policy Analysis.

photoUnemployment insurance reform can increase employment in Arizona, according to a new report Bill wrote for the Goldwater Institute entitled, "Getting Back to Work: Reforming Unemployment Insurance to Increase Employment."

Nine percent wasted Conerly's latest article reports that nine percent of unemployment insurance payments go to people who are ineligible for benefits. Published by the National Center for Policy Analysis.

Bill's article, "Chile Leads the Way with Individual Unemployment Accounts," was published by the National Center for Policy Analysis. The article is available here.

New Zealand's workers have the right to self-representation in negotiating wages and working conditions. Bill's letter to the editor of the Wall Street Journal (October 15) makes this point, based on an article he wrote last year for Cascade Policy Institute, available here (pdf file).

Bill's paper, "Repeal the Federal Job Tax," was published by the National Center for Policy Analysis, where Bill is a Senior Fellow. The article discusses the federal unemployment insurance tax and the Bush administration's reform proposal.

"Give the States Back Their Money," about the federal unemployment insurance tax, was published in Intellectual Ammunition.

"Report on the JOBS Plus Program," (pdf, 327K) co-authored with John Courtney, published by the American Institute for Full Employment.

"Capital Gains in Oregon: Economic Effects of a Tax Cut" (pdf, 158K) prepared for the AOI Foundation, January 31, 2001.

"Who's Unemployed in Washington State" published by Evergreen Freedom Foundation.

"Bad Idea: Paying for Family Leave," National Center for Policy Analysis, Jan. 31, 2000.

"Connecticut's Unfair Unemployment Insurance"

(Coauthored with Lewis M. Andrews), published by the Yankee Institute for Public Policy.

"A College Fund on the Social Security Model", The Freeman, August 1999.

"The Unseen Costs of Ribbon-Cutting: Losses from Economic Development Programs," Fiscal Insight, Cascade Policy Institute, February 1995.

"Business Taxation: A Loose Cannon on a Dark Night," Fiscal Insight, Cascade Policy Institute, October 1992.

"Sailing the Competitive Seas," The Freeman, January 1989.


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