Policy Reform for Progress | Andrew Kenneson, Maxwell Tabarrok, Brent Skorup & Richard Hanania
On this week\u2019s CSPI Podcast, Richard interviews the top three winners of the CSPI Essay Contest: Policy Reform For Progress.
The first interview is with contest winner Andrew Kenneson, a program navigator at a public housing authority in Kodiak, Alaska and former reporter. In \u201cGathering Steam: Unlocking Geothermal Potential in the United States,\u201d Andrew explains why exempting geothermal exploration on federally owned lands from NEPA requirements could set off a cascade of energy innovation.
The second interview (starting at 29:12) is with Maxwell Tabarrok, an Econ and Math student at the University of Virginia whose essay on science funding reform \u201cMo\u2019 Money Mo\u2019 Problems\u201d won second prize. Maxwell proposes a system of research guided funding in which the ~$120 billion spent by the federal government on science each year is distributed equally to the ~250,000 full-time STEM faculty at high research activity universities.
The third interview (starting at 57:03) is with Brent Skorup, a senior research fellow at George Mason University's Mercatus Center and a visiting faculty fellow at the Nebraska Governance and Technology Center at the Nebraska College of Law. Brent\u2019s 3rd place essay, \u201cDrone Airspace: A New Global Asset Class,\u201d outlines how public auctions for drone airspace would be an improvement on the FAA\u2019s current plan to ration airspace to a few lucky companies.
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Winning Essays:
* \u201cGathering Steam: Unlocking Geothermal Potential in the United States\u201d by Andrew Kenneson
* \u201cMo\u2019 Money Mo\u2019 Problems\u201d by Maxwell Tabarrok
* \u201cDrone Airspace: A New Global Asset Class\u201d by Brent Skorup
Honorable Mentions:
* \u201cThe University-Government Complex\u201d by William L. Krayer
* \u201cIt\u2019s Time to Review the Institutional Review Boards\u201d by Willy Chertman
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