What We’re Reading: February 2, 2018

Here’s a quick round-up of some of the links shared by Mercatus Center scholars this week:

• Wages on the Rise at Small Firms, Wall Street Journal
• Occupational Therapy: You Shouldn’t Need a Degree for That, Washington Examiner
• Could Self-Driving Trucks Be Good for Truckers? The Atlantic
• These Are All the Japanese Cars Made in the USA, Business Insider
• Three Reasons Homeownership Can Hurt Building Wealth, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
• Liberalism Is the Most Successful Idea of the Past 400 Years, The Economist
• Leaving NAFTA Would Cost $50 Billion a Year, Wall Street Journal
• People Are Scared of Tech Because We’re Telling Them to Be Scared, Says Stripe CEO Patrick Collison, Recode
• HRF Mourns Passing of Non-Violence Scholar Gene Sharp, Human Rights Foundation
• U.S. Reaches Oil-Output Milestone Months Earlier Than Expected, Bloomberg

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