The federal government’s vast authority over education, health care, trade, and other activities creates constituencies that benefit from and help preserve federal power. This dynamic can be stopped only if young people, encouraged by a decentralization and privatization of education, decide to work for change.
Charlotte Twight is a Research Fellow at the Independent Institute and Professor of Economics at Boise State University.
EducationGovernment and PoliticsGovernment Power
Other Independent Review articles by Charlotte Twight
Fall 2017 Passing the Affordable Care Act: Transaction Costs, Legerdemain, Acquisition of Control
Fall 2015 Dodd–Frank: Accretion of Power, Illusion of Reform
Spring 2008 Sovereign Impunity
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