Education
Get working on fixing public schools, white people
I did not attend the Nikole Hannah-Jones event at Duke University last night, but the News & Observer story about it was striking. “When it comes to your own children, all of a…
Public good
good that is non-excludable and non-rival
Regulation
Re: Not a Subsidy
In his post below Mitch Kokai points to the absurdity in the claim that imposing a fee on businesses to pay for the governmental administrative costs of regulations is simply…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
The changing nature of public debt
The latest print edition of National Review devotes 6 1/2 pages (roughly 13 percent of the issue) to Christopher DeMuth’s fascinating exploration of disturbing changes in public debt. While the…
Liberty
Even the Least among Us Can Offer a Smile
Last October, folks in more than 50 cities around the world sat down to map out their local “shared economies” — goods and services that are available to anyone and…
Liberty
RIP Ronald Coase 1991 Nobel laureate in economics
The world has lost an intellectual giant, University of Chicago Economist and 1991 Nobel prize winner in economics Ronald Coase passed away yesterday at the age of 102. Coase is…
Liberty
Money is not a public good
Alex Salter explains in this Freeman piece.
Liberty
Bravo John Lilly!
Thanks to a Google alert, I found a News-Leader (Springfield, Missouri) op-ed written by columnist John Lilly, “Be wary when you hear phrase ‘public good.” Most of his op-ed deals…
Liberty
More Cone-BCBS
In an N&R op-ed, Dr. James Weissman places the Cone-BCBS sitation in the context of the bigger picture. Weissman acknowledges that Cone is getting squeezed: An uninsured patient who is…
Liberty
Kelo-Type Takings: Bad for the Economy
This interesting and concise study by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis is worth a read. It does an excellent job of explaining the difference between a private and…
Liberty
Free riding
Why buy a bike if you can get someone else to buy one for you? What’s good for Denmark has got to be good for Orange County, right?
Liberty
Re: levees
First let me reiterate what I wrote to Joe in a private email. My guess is that there would actually be very little demand for such a levee prior to…
Liberty
Re: A Katrina request
Roy and Daren, I did not take Paul’s question as either predictive or normative, but simply as descriptive. Given the desire to spend, the way to spend responsibly is to…