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Population Externality Bleg, by Bryan Caplan

Suppose a city's population exogenously rises. You might think that price theory clearly implies that demand for real estate will rise. But that's not so. In theory, higher population could generate a congestion externality so awful that demand for ... [Published EconLog - 1 hour ago]

Entities: Bryan Caplan, Manhattan, Real Estate

First reported 5 hours ago - Updated 5 hours ago - 1 reports

University of Arizona

Values Every Scholar Should Adopt, by Art Carden

Jacob Levy directs readers to the Mission Statement of the Freedom Center at the University of Arizona . I agree that these are values to be emulated. While I sometimes allow the perfect to become the enemy of the good, I am constantly revising my ... [Published EconLog - 5 hours ago]

Entities: University of Arizona, Emulation, Education

First reported 16 hours ago - Updated 16 hours ago - 1 reports

Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis

Congestion Externality Bleg, by David Henderson

In the cost/benefit analysis course i teach, one of the actual cost/benefit analyses we work our way through--and one that I present as a reasonably good CBA--is a study done by two St. Louis Federal Reserve economists on adding another runway at St. ... [Published EconLog - 16 hours ago]

Entities: David Henderson, Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis, Personal Property

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 1 reports

Age and Common Sense, by Bryan Caplan

Jim Flynn's latest book has fascinating info on age and intelligence. But Sternberg, Wagner, Williams, and Horvath, " Testing Common Sense " ( American Psychologist , 1995) suggest that Flynn misses an important part of the story. There's a widespread ... [Published EconLog - May 18 2013]

Entities: Bryan Caplan, Declination

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Another Inflation Bet, by Bryan Caplan

Arthur Breitman and I have hammered out the following inflation bet:span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">If ... [Published EconLog - May 17 2013]

Entities: Bryan Caplan, Inflation

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Look Out the Window, or, Stop and Smell the Bacon, by Art Carden

Ronald Coase famously advised economists to "look out the window" every so often. It's advice I (try to) take to heart. Here's an example. On Monday afternoon, I was standing behind our building waiting for a few people and "enjoying" the smell of the ... [Published EconLog - May 17 2013]

Entities: David Friedman, Ronald Coase, Bryan Caplan

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Linda Gorman on How ObamaCare Treats Middle Class, by David Henderson

Linda Gorman, my former Naval Postgraduate School colleague and author of three excellent articles in The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics ( here , here , and here ), has written a post laying out some weird consequences of the ObamaCare law. I ... [Published EconLog - May 17 2013]

Entities: David Henderson, Obamacare, Medicaid, Rube Goldberg

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Recent Reading and Coming Attractions: Stats, Stats, and More Stats!, by Art Carden

Here's a quick update to yesterday's post on what I've been reading lately. I had to give to exams this morning, so that gave me plenty of time to read. If you're looking for something to take to the beach this weekend, I recommend either of these: ... [Published EconLog - May 16 2013]

Entities: Charles Wheelan, Rolf Dobelli, Chuck E. Cheese's, Drug War

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Contrarian Virtue, by Bryan Caplan

In case it's unclear, nothing in my analysis of conformity and virtue implies that I personally am especially virtuous. The fact that I hold many unpopular views does however mean that my virtue is unusually easy to assess . If you think my unpopular ... [Published EconLog - May 16 2013]

Entities: Bryan Caplan

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

How to Spend A Billion Dollars, by Bryan Caplan

My Ph.D. students' responses to the following question on their final exam disappointed me:Inthe modern U.S., what is the most efficient way for the federal government to spend an extra billion dollars? What is the maximally <i style="mso-bidi-font ... [Published EconLog - May 16 2013]

Entities: Bryan Caplan, Doctor of Philosophy, Air Pollution

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Kenneth Elzinga on Teaching Economics, by David Henderson

The best talk I attended at the annual meetings of the Association for Private Enterprise Education (APEE) was a luncheon speech given by Kenneth Elzinga of the University of Virginia. I have know Ken since the early 2000s when we both were on the faculty ... [Published EconLog - May 16 2013]

Entities: Teaching, David Henderson, Eric Mazur, George Mason University, University of Virginia

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

"Social Welfare Groups" Defined in the Process of Their Emergence, by Art Carden

One of my favorite essays in the social sciences is James Buchanan's very short " Order Defined in the Process of its Emergence ." It probably has the highest ratio of insight-to-text of any article I've ever read, and I come back to it often--particularly ... [Published EconLog - May 15 2013]

Entities: Social Welfare, Education, Flux

Quotes

">If the 12 month change of the CPI-U as reported by the BLS is greater"

Another Inflation Bet, by Bryan Caplan [Published EconLog - May 17 2013]

1. An answer to Bryan's question about how the government should spend a billion dollars . I'm going to take "give it back to the taxpayers" and "print a few hundred million US passports for prospective immigrants" off the table

Recent Reading and Coming Attractions: Stats, Stats, and More Stats!, by Art Carden [Published EconLog - May 16 2013]

">utilitarian way for the federal government to spend this sum? (In both cases, assume that tax cuts are not"

How to Spend A Billion Dollars, by Bryan Caplan [Published EconLog - May 16 2013]

It's easy (and perhaps intuitive) to say things like "tax-exempt groups shouldn't be allowed to engage in political activity" or "education produces positive externalities and should therefore be subsidized...

"Social Welfare Groups" Defined in the Process of Their Emergence, by Art Carden [Published EconLog - May 15 2013]

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Population Externality Bleg, by Bryan Caplan [Published EconLog - 1 hour ago]
Values Every Scholar Should Adopt, by Art Carden [Published EconLog - 5 hours ago]
Congestion Externality Bleg, by David Henderson [Published EconLog - 16 hours ago]
Age and Common Sense, by Bryan Caplan [Published EconLog - May 18 2013]
Another Inflation Bet, by Bryan Caplan [Published EconLog - May 17 2013]
Look Out the Window, or, Stop and Smell the Bac... [Published EconLog - May 17 2013]
Linda Gorman on How ObamaCare Treats Middle Cla... [Published EconLog - May 17 2013]
Recent Reading and Coming Attractions: Stats, S... [Published EconLog - May 16 2013]
Contrarian Virtue, by Bryan Caplan [Published EconLog - May 16 2013]
How to Spend A Billion Dollars, by Bryan Caplan [Published EconLog - May 16 2013]
Kenneth Elzinga on Teaching Economics, by David... [Published EconLog - May 16 2013]
"Social Welfare Groups" Defined in the Process ... [Published EconLog - May 15 2013]
You Will Know Them By Their Unpopular Views, by... [Published EconLog - May 15 2013]
Recent Reading, by Art Carden [Published EconLog - May 15 2013]
Kling on Clans, North on States, by Art Carden [Published EconLog - May 14 2013]
"Most Economists?" Really?, by David Henderson [Published EconLog - May 14 2013]
Ben Haller on My Global Warming Econometrics Bl... [Published EconLog - May 13 2013]
Global Warming Econometrics Bleg, by Bryan Caplan [Published EconLog - May 12 2013]
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Sanctions and Boycott in an Interconnected Worl... [Published EconLog - May 10 2013]
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Rector, Poverty, and Immigration, by Bryan Caplan [Published EconLog - May 09 2013]
Hayek on Medical Marijuana, by David Henderson [Published EconLog - May 09 2013]
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Population Externality Bleg, by Bryan Caplan [Published EconLog - 1 hour ago] Suppose a city's population exogenously rises. You might think that price theory clearly implies that demand for real estate will rise. But that's not so. In theory, higher population could generate a congestion externality so awful that demand for ...
Values Every Scholar Should Adopt, by Art Carden [Published EconLog - 5 hours ago] Jacob Levy directs readers to the Mission Statement of the Freedom Center at the University of Arizona . I agree that these are values to be emulated. While I sometimes allow the perfect to become the enemy of the good, I am constantly revising my ...
Congestion Externality Bleg, by David Henderson [Published EconLog - 16 hours ago] In the cost/benefit analysis course i teach, one of the actual cost/benefit analyses we work our way through--and one that I present as a reasonably good CBA--is a study done by two St. Louis Federal Reserve economists on adding another runway at St. ...
Age and Common Sense, by Bryan Caplan [Published EconLog - May 18 2013] Jim Flynn's latest book has fascinating info on age and intelligence. But Sternberg, Wagner, Williams, and Horvath, " Testing Common Sense " ( American Psychologist , 1995) suggest that Flynn misses an important part of the story. There's a widespread ...
Another Inflation Bet, by Bryan Caplan [Published EconLog - May 17 2013] Arthur Breitman and I have hammered out the following inflation bet:span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">If ...