Scott Lincicome

Scott Lincicome is the author of Capitolism, vice president of general economics and trade at the Cato Institute, and a visiting lecturer at Duke University Law School.

Scott Lincicome

I Make Great Hot Sauce. State Regulations Ensure You’ll Never Taste It.

‘Cottage food’ restrictions mean less choice and less entrepreneurship for no good reason.

Trivial Pursuits

Do we need ‘consumer protection’ policies on burger prices and bags of potato chips?

The Big Short: I Smell Money

Fact or fiction?

Remote Work Is Here to Stay, Mostly for the Better

It’s great for working parents, people with disabilities, and anyone who likes more flexibility at work.

Unfrozen Caveman Tucker

Simple folk wisdom can be persuasive, even when pushed by an obvious phony.

Aluminum Tariff Follies

The sordid reality of modern U.S. trade policy.

Collateral Damage in the War on ‘Gig Work’

A new Department of Labor rule regarding independent contractors is likely to hurt overall employment.

Blame Bad Law for Biden’s Bad LNG Pause

A notoriously vague delegation of congressional authority lets the president play politics with global energy security.

Industrial Policy’s Corruption Problem Is Hiding in Plane Sight

Boeing’s troubles reveal another risk of government support for ‘national champions’

On ‘Making Things’

Promoting manufacturing isn’t as simple (or desirable) as it might sound.