Pacific Research Institute
Business & Economics
The PRI All Stars – 2023 Year End Awards
PRI’s All Stars – Rowena Itchon, Tim Anaya, Lance Izumi, and Kerry Jackson – are back with their choices for 2023’s biggest winners and losers, in our annual tribute to the McLaughlin Group. We hand out our choices for best and worst ideas of the year, the bummest wraps, and ...
California
Richard Samuelson – What We Can Learn About Today’s Politics from the Boston Tea Party
Calling all history buffs, this episode is for you! PRI board member and Hillsdale College Associate Professor of Government Richard Samuelson joins us to discuss the anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, the events surrounding the incident, and the lessons we can learn from the Boston Tea Party about ...
California
Wayne Winegarden featured in Cap Public Radio story on Newsom homeless funds
Sacramento region eyes new round of homeless encampment funds by Chris Nichols Sacramento officials say they’ll consider applying for some of the $300 million in homeless encampment funds made available this week by Governor Gavin Newsom. But the program by itself won’t pay cities and counties to remove the vast ...
Podcast
Holiday Book Gift Guide – PRI Staff
The PRI holiday book gift guide has become an annual tradition. This year’s list has something for everyone on your gift list: politics, history, business, philosophy, mystery, horror, and good old-fashion whodunits. Enjoy and happy holiday shopping.
Blog
PRI’s 2023 Holiday Book List
Tim Anaya – Negotiation Made Simple by John Lowry My selection this year is a bit of shameless self-promotion, as it is a book that I helped to edit. My friend John Lowry has just published his first book, which gives you useful tips and teaches you the strategy to ...
Free Cities
Watch latest video from PRI's Free Cities Center
Watch: Tour Sacramento’s New “Safe Stay Communities” to Help the Homeless
Free Cities
Scott Beyer – Latin America’s Urban Experience
Our guest this week is Scott Beyer, founder of the Market Urbanist, a website that reports and researches innovative free-market policy solutions to the myriad of problems many cities are facing. Scott is the author of PRI’s new mini book: Latin America’s Urban Experience: How Markets Help Developing Countries Cope ...
Charter School
Lance Izumi Discusses Charter Schools on Lars Larson Show
Listen to Lance Izumi, senior director of PRI’s Center for Education, make the case for why government-run public schools should learn something from America’s charter schools on the nationally-syndicated Lars Larson Show. TheLarsLarsonShow · Lance Izumi Should Government Run Public Schools Learn Something From America's Charter Schools
Book
NEW BOOK RELEASE
Latin America’s Experience Shows How Markets Can Help Urban America Overcome Government-Created Problems
SACRAMENTO – Despite its socialist political traditions, Latin America offers some free market lessons for the West Coast’s urban centers on housing, transportation, government services and startup cities, finds a new book released today by the Free Cities Center at the nonpartisan, free-market think tank, the Pacific Research Institute. Click ...
California
Elizabeth Funk – How Dignity Moves is Reimagining Scalable Solutions to Homelessness
Listen to an extended conversation between PRI’s Dr. Wayne Winegarden and Elizabeth Funk, founder and CEO of Dignity Moves, a San Francisco non-profit that is reimagining scalable solutions to homelessness through interim supportive housing. First, Tim and Ro analyze the first few weeks of Mike Johnson’s speakership and the ...
The PRI All Stars – 2023 Year End Awards
PRI’s All Stars – Rowena Itchon, Tim Anaya, Lance Izumi, and Kerry Jackson – are back with their choices for 2023’s biggest winners and losers, in our annual tribute to the McLaughlin Group. We hand out our choices for best and worst ideas of the year, the bummest wraps, and ...
Richard Samuelson – What We Can Learn About Today’s Politics from the Boston Tea Party
Calling all history buffs, this episode is for you! PRI board member and Hillsdale College Associate Professor of Government Richard Samuelson joins us to discuss the anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, the events surrounding the incident, and the lessons we can learn from the Boston Tea Party about ...
Wayne Winegarden featured in Cap Public Radio story on Newsom homeless funds
Sacramento region eyes new round of homeless encampment funds by Chris Nichols Sacramento officials say they’ll consider applying for some of the $300 million in homeless encampment funds made available this week by Governor Gavin Newsom. But the program by itself won’t pay cities and counties to remove the vast ...
Holiday Book Gift Guide – PRI Staff
The PRI holiday book gift guide has become an annual tradition. This year’s list has something for everyone on your gift list: politics, history, business, philosophy, mystery, horror, and good old-fashion whodunits. Enjoy and happy holiday shopping.
PRI’s 2023 Holiday Book List
Tim Anaya – Negotiation Made Simple by John Lowry My selection this year is a bit of shameless self-promotion, as it is a book that I helped to edit. My friend John Lowry has just published his first book, which gives you useful tips and teaches you the strategy to ...
Watch latest video from PRI's Free Cities Center
Watch: Tour Sacramento’s New “Safe Stay Communities” to Help the Homeless
Scott Beyer – Latin America’s Urban Experience
Our guest this week is Scott Beyer, founder of the Market Urbanist, a website that reports and researches innovative free-market policy solutions to the myriad of problems many cities are facing. Scott is the author of PRI’s new mini book: Latin America’s Urban Experience: How Markets Help Developing Countries Cope ...
Lance Izumi Discusses Charter Schools on Lars Larson Show
Listen to Lance Izumi, senior director of PRI’s Center for Education, make the case for why government-run public schools should learn something from America’s charter schools on the nationally-syndicated Lars Larson Show. TheLarsLarsonShow · Lance Izumi Should Government Run Public Schools Learn Something From America's Charter Schools
NEW BOOK RELEASE
Latin America’s Experience Shows How Markets Can Help Urban America Overcome Government-Created Problems
SACRAMENTO – Despite its socialist political traditions, Latin America offers some free market lessons for the West Coast’s urban centers on housing, transportation, government services and startup cities, finds a new book released today by the Free Cities Center at the nonpartisan, free-market think tank, the Pacific Research Institute. Click ...
Elizabeth Funk – How Dignity Moves is Reimagining Scalable Solutions to Homelessness
Listen to an extended conversation between PRI’s Dr. Wayne Winegarden and Elizabeth Funk, founder and CEO of Dignity Moves, a San Francisco non-profit that is reimagining scalable solutions to homelessness through interim supportive housing. First, Tim and Ro analyze the first few weeks of Mike Johnson’s speakership and the ...
