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Theodore Bolema is an adjunct scholar with the Mackinac Center for Public Policy and senior policy editor with the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Michigan State University and a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School, and is a graduate of Hope College.
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Mental Health Care Reform Should Put Patients First
State compliance requirements divert enormous resources toward monitoring the process followed by local mental health authorities, while doing little to measure whether patients in the system actually get better. … more
Re-regulating Electricity Could Shock Michigan’s Economy
A reversal in deregulation would restrict choice in electricity supply, harming rather than benefiting consumers and the businesses that employ them. … more
Assessing Electric Choice in Michigan
Ending the regional monopoly structure in the generation of electricity was intended to provide customers with lower rates and improved service quality, while also increasing generating capacity for electricity in the state. But attempts are underway to reverse the course of this restructuring. … more
Crossed Lines: Regulatory Missteps in Telecom Policy
Violation of property rights is the defining feature of current telecom policy. … more
Don’t Blame Deregulation for the Blackout
In the end, the blackout was primarily the result of failures at the transmission level — the level where almost no deregulation has occurred. … more
Repeal Michigan’s Anti-Takeover Law
Anti-takeover laws … often promote the very harms they are
supposed to prevent, while imposing great costs and delays on the shareholders and other stakeholders in the
corporations. … more
