The 25 most-recent comments:
Sunil
[2013/05/20 12:03
AM,
How to Spend A Billion Dollars]:
Use it to bribe politicians to scrap as many laws as possible!...
Mark Brophy
[2013/05/19 10:21
PM,
Population Externality Bleg]:
According to Wikipedia, the population of Boston fell from 801,000 in 1950 ...
Salim
[2013/05/19 08:45
PM,
Population Externality Bleg]:
There's a tangentially similar notion in highway engineering: as you add mo...
Adam_Smith
[2013/05/19 07:13
PM,
Population Externality Bleg]:
"Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded." -- Yogi Berra
(Said regardi...
Handle
[2013/05/19 04:40
PM,
Population Externality Bleg]:
@David: Things have changed. And they can change more - things can always...
Philo
[2013/05/19 03:31
PM,
Congestion Externality Bleg]:
So, David, what's the upshot? Were any of the comments helpful? Can you n...
Michael
[2013/05/19 03:01
PM,
Linda Gorman on How ObamaCare Treats Middle Class]:
Kevin,
The National Income does track productivity - it's consistently bet...
David C
[2013/05/19 01:43
PM,
Population Externality Bleg]:
Woops! I left out what I think is the biggest reason for California's poor...
David C
[2013/05/19 01:22
PM,
Population Externality Bleg]:
@Handle Almost every state has effective one-party rule. In fact, Californ...
Nick J
[2013/05/19 12:44
PM,
Congestion Externality Bleg]:
I was thinking this morning about how to convince people that it is an exte...
Grant
[2013/05/19 12:40
PM,
Population Externality Bleg]:
Could extended protests count? Imagine there is a protest in the capital ci...
Bill
[2013/05/19 12:21
PM,
Congestion Externality Bleg]:
Another issue that should demand attention is whether a particular (level o...
Jeff
[2013/05/19 12:16
PM,
Population Externality Bleg]:
BC beat me to the Yogi Berra allusion. ...
Philo
[2013/05/19 12:10
PM,
Population Externality Bleg]:
(Echoing Brent.) The increased congestion externality would drive *down* t...
Joery Donuts
[2013/05/19 11:23
AM,
How to Spend A Billion Dollars]:
Have each agency that prepares a budget prepare two budgets for next year. ...
Handle
[2013/05/19 10:24
AM,
Population Externality Bleg]:
I think I see where you're going with this, immigration, open borders, yadd...
Brent
[2013/05/19 09:19
AM,
Population Externality Bleg]:
So it is congested but no one lives there? This seems like a negative netw...
BC
[2013/05/19 07:24
AM,
Population Externality Bleg]:
I believe that Yogi Berra once said about a restaurant, "Nobody goes there ...
Martin
[2013/05/19 07:23
AM,
Congestion Externality Bleg]:
David,
The Numerical Example:
The costs and benefits to A in the congeste...
Tyler Cowen
[2013/05/19 07:22
AM,
Population Externality Bleg]:
You need the average return everywhere else to be falling for this to work....
8
[2013/05/19 05:05
AM,
Population Externality Bleg]:
If you look at the price of real estate per sq ft or sq m, and look at the ...
Capt. J Parker
[2013/05/19 01:18
AM,
Congestion Externality Bleg]:
Dr. Henderson's problem is definitional. He says "My answer was, and is, t...
Himanshu Sanguri
[2013/05/19 12:53
AM,
Population Externality Bleg]:
I have observed the effects of congestion externality on the real estate pr...
Mark Bahner
[2013/05/19 12:19
AM,
How to Spend A Billion Dollars]:
For those saying stuff like "Put a billion dollars on the head of Kim Jung ...
Mark Bahner
[2013/05/18 11:55
PM,
How to Spend A Billion Dollars]:
Buying off dictators is tempting, as their subjects are the most miserable,...
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The 12 most-recently-commented-on articles:
How to Spend A Billion Dollars
[Comments (116)
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Mark Bahner: For those saying stuff like "Put a billion dollars on the head of Kim Jung ...
Joery Donuts: Have each agency that prepares a budget prepare two budgets for next year. ...
Sunil: Use it to bribe politicians to scrap as many laws as possible!...
Population Externality Bleg
[Comments (16)
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Adam_Smith: "Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded." -- Yogi Berra
(Said regardi...
Salim: There's a tangentially similar notion in highway engineering: as you add mo...
Mark Brophy: According to Wikipedia, the population of Boston fell from 801,000 in 1950 ...
Congestion Externality Bleg
[Comments (34)
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Bill: Another issue that should demand attention is whether a particular (level o...
Nick J: I was thinking this morning about how to convince people that it is an exte...
Philo: So, David, what's the upshot? Were any of the comments helpful? Can you n...
Linda Gorman on How ObamaCare Treats Middle Class
[Comments (13)
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Kevin: Michael, you wrote: If you adjust the 1968 minimum wage for productivity, i...
ThomasH: Just think how much better this hypothetical person would be if there were ...
Michael: Kevin,
The National Income does track productivity - it's consistently bet...
Another Inflation Bet
[Comments (10)
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Joe Cushing: Do you see it going over 5% in the next 4 years? It seems like we should h...
Arthur B.: @Kevin, I'm willing to put more money behind it if you're a taker....
Mark Bahner: I don't even think inflation is going to be that high, but I would be nervo...
A Natalist Provision
[Comments (15)
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Anonymous: Not much of an incentive when you can always revoke your will. An irrevocab...
Finch: Anonymous raises an important point. I think the term of art is bloodline ...
Chip Smith: Memo to antinatalists with kids: You can do the opposite, and let them know...
In a Just World...
[Comments (45)
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Engineer-Poet: Both are crossing an arbitrary line that doesn't exist outside the minds of...
John Cunningham: [Comment removed pending confirmation of email address. Email the webmaste...
Chip Smith: Bryan,
The views may be "worlds apart" based on your philosophical priors,...
Recent Reading and Coming Attractions: Stats, Stats, and More Stats!
[Comments (6)
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Jeremey Arnold: As an evangelical myself who is married to a youth pastor, I will be very i...
Jeffrey S.: "These are environments in which people make a lot of confident-but-(let's ...
Kevin L: @Jeffrey S., my version of a response to the example in #4 would be that it...
Age and Common Sense
[Comments (3)
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Doug: I can't find the link, but I remember reading a paper arguing that most age...
roystgnr: The book you mention is *by* Flynn, but there's no mention here of how easi...
Himanshu Sanguri: I have also observed a pattern in old age professional, where they take som...
Look Out the Window, or, Stop and Smell the Bacon
[Comments (7)
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jc: Re: Krishnan
And not every smell that many consider "negative" is negative...
Nick Bormann: I think a serious answer to this would depend on measuring the timespan exp...
jc: Re: Art
A bit off topic, but since we're speaking about regulation...
I s...
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