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Wednesday, November 1, 2017
Is It a Public Health Emergency If We Drive More?
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Suppose you are the head of your nation's public health bureaucracy. (Say, the CDC, FDA, EPA or similar agencies in the United States.) ...
Richard Thaler's Nobel Prize
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Richard Thaler won this year's Nobel Prize in economics . I'm in no position to judge the merits of his work, far less to compare it...
Monday, October 30, 2017
A Modest Sandwich Tax: the Economics of Deterring Self-harm
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You are the Czar. You have the power to unilaterally make policy. You want people to stop eating sub sandwiches. The average cost of a san...
Minimum Wage Arguments
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I recently came across this excellent piece on the minimum wage. Actually, it is more generally a discussion of the so-called bargaining po...
Wednesday, October 25, 2017
Price Discrimination In Insurance
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In previous posts I have defended the practice of “price discrimination,” charging different prices for the same service to different custo...
Tuesday, October 24, 2017
It's Really Hard to Improve Things
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I really love this piece by David Friedman. Suppose you are designing a race car; further suppose that you are very good at designing ra...
Monday, October 23, 2017
Steven Pinker Explains Sexual Prudishness
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The excerpt below is from Pinker's book The Blank Slate , which I highly recommend reading. It is an absolute breath of fresh air in tod...
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