Browsing: Economy
What are the best sources to read on US AID, and its costs and benefits? I am not interested in…
Every once in a while, one will hear an argument for protectionism that protectionist tariffs will ultimately lead to lower…
1. Congestion Pricing Tracker update, sigh…Economists like to think they are useful, but if the initial policy is not right…
In a post last week, I stated that the deadweight loss from a tax is proportional to the square of…
My take is that there is an evolving new consensus on the minimum wage. Namely, the effects of the minimum…
Here’s Gideon Rachman in the FT: “Our strategy on tariffs will be to shoot first and ask questions later.”…
The subtitle is “Systemic Existential Risks from Incremental AI Development,” and the authors are Jan Kulveit, et.al. Several of you…
Maya Chouikrat, Algeria, to support training for an international olympiad of informatics team. Mercy Muwanguzi and Kwesiga Pather, Uganda, for…
One explanation of the gender wage gap is taste discrimination, as in Becker (1957). We test for taste discrimination by…
After every presidential election, including the most recent, the new majority wants to repeal a list of previous regimes’ policy…