The Civitas Papers
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Unlocking Public Value: A Proposal for AI Opportunity Zones
Today, governments write rules around AI’s costs but rarely measure its benefits, which leaves innovators to retreat and the public to wait. The answer is not to pause progress but to prove it: to create AI Opportunity Zones—new partnerships where governments get open access to advanced AI systems in exchange for testing them, transparently and rigorously, on society’s toughest problems.
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The American Dream Is Not a Coin Flip, and Wages Have Not Stagnated
This paper challenges the prevailing narrative that stagnant wages are causing the American dream to fade. It contrasts subjective public opinion with revised objective intergenerational mobility measures.
Political Economy and the Rise of Commercial Humanism
Commerce’s revaluation—from moral reproach to a driver of innovation and economic growth—has been central to the development of prosperous, dynamic modern economies.
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