# Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator VPA focuses on cutting-edge topics in political economy and regulation to swiftly bring research, education, and policy proposals from infancy to maturity. Page: Feed: --- ## [Are Insurers Overcharging in Your State?](https://vanderbiltpolicyaccelerator.substack.com/p/are-insurers-overcharging-in-your-state) _2026-08-17 · Brian Shearer_ In April, I published two papers describing how property insurance is too expensive, and More Perfect Union just posted a great video explaining it. ## [The Abundance Case for Public Factories](https://vanderbiltpolicyaccelerator.substack.com/p/the-abundance-case-for-public-factories) _2026-08-04 · Joel Dodge_ Over the last few years, a number of commentators, policy wonks, and elected officials have taken up the cause of abundance. ## [The Government Can Do More to Address the Housing Crisis](https://vanderbiltpolicyaccelerator.substack.com/p/the-government-can-do-more-to-address-the-housing-crisis) _2026-07-23 · Margaret Mullins_ America is missing nearly five million homes, and this profound shortage is having profound effects. ## [Property Insurers: Before You Increase Our Premiums Again, Sell the Private Jets](https://vanderbiltpolicyaccelerator.substack.com/p/property-insurers-before-you-increase-our-premiums-again-sell-the-private-jets) _2026-07-22 · Brian Shearer_ This summer State Farm sent all four of its private jets to Barcelona on a corporate boondoggle (tail numbers N76SF, N22SF, N43SF, N44SF). ## [Civilian Mobilization Under the Defense Production Act](https://vanderbiltpolicyaccelerator.substack.com/p/civilian-mobilization-under-the-defense-production-act) _2026-07-10 · Vishnu Tirumala_ In recent years, policymakers on both sides of the aisle in the United States have renewed their interest in industrial policy, and the Defense Production Act has emerged as a central tool in this endeavor—particularly its production authorities, which let the president coordinate and prioritize the production of materials deemed important for national defense. ## [VPA Chat: A Blueprint for Public Powered Pharmacies in New York City](https://vanderbiltpolicyaccelerator.substack.com/p/vpa-chat-a-blueprint-for-public-powered-pharmacies-in-new-york-city) _2026-07-07 · Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator_ For more, check out the paper by Joel Dodge and Dana Brown, CityRx: A Blueprint for Public-Powered Pharmacies in New York City and our recent post, Why New York City Needs Public-Powered Pharmacies. ## [The President and AI Regulation](https://vanderbiltpolicyaccelerator.substack.com/p/the-president-and-ai-regulation) _2026-06-22 · Ganesh Sitaraman_ According to public reports, the Trump Administration recently issued an export control order against Anthropic’s newest models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5. ## [Worker’s Data Should Not be a Business Asset](https://vanderbiltpolicyaccelerator.substack.com/p/workers-data-should-not-be-a-business-asset) _2026-06-16 · Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator_ A Legislative Framework for Hard Limits on Workplace Data Collection, Use, and Retention ## [Why New York City Needs Public-Powered Pharmacies](https://vanderbiltpolicyaccelerator.substack.com/p/why-new-york-city-needs-public-powered-pharmacies) _2026-06-15 · Joel Dodge_ New York City has a growing pharmacy gap, and the culprit is corporate power. ## [Stay updated on your professional world (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/lYDWGSQHxa5a) _2026-06-15 · **Sponsored**_ Keep in touch with people you know, build your career. ## [VPA Chat: Bossware and the Harms of Workplace Surveillance](https://vanderbiltpolicyaccelerator.substack.com/p/vpa-chat-bossware-and-the-harms-of-workplace-surveillance) _2026-06-04 · Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator_ Stephanie T. Nguyen joins VPA Senior Fellow Kyla Scanlon in a conversation about how workplace monitoring software—“bossware”—tracks, shares, and monetizes employee data, creating significant privacy risks and reshaping the modern work environment.