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Thursday, July 20, 2017

Climate Change Will (Probably) Not Destroy the Global Economy but That Doesn't Mean We are Out of the Woods

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Climate change is on course to do a lot of harm to our planet. That is why concerned economists like myself advocate measures that would...
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Friday, July 14, 2017

Latest Senate Healthcare Bill is a Step Toward Universal Coverage but Not Bold Enough

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 Universal health care access is coming to America. As I wrote a few weeks ago, it is time to stop fighting it and make it work . In princ...
Thursday, July 13, 2017

How Conservatives Could Design a Fair and Efficient Healthcare System if they Took their Time

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Senate Republicans fell short in their first attempt to attract fifty votes for their healthcare bill. Small wonder. The Better C...
Saturday, July 8, 2017

Unintended Consequences of Healthcare Decentralization

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All economic policies have unintended consequences. The decentralization of healthcare finance and policy proposed by congressional ...
Friday, June 16, 2017

Jobs are No Reason to Quit the Paris Climate Agreement

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Donald Trump cited “jobs ” no fewer than eighteen times in announcing his plans to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement. Nonsense. Job...
Wednesday, May 31, 2017

Would Hayek Have Supported a Carbon Tax? A Rejoinder to Robert Murphy

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 On April 12, I posted " Hayek on Carbon Taxes: Prices Without Markets or Markets Without Prices ?" both on this site and t...
Monday, May 22, 2017

Economic vs. Personal Feedom in Singapore

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Today’s New York Times carries an op-ed by Singaporean novelist Balli Kaur Jaswal on censorship in her home country. It begins by d...