Homines libenter quod volunt credunt
Posted in Health Care on Sep 3rd, 2009
One big reason our life expectancy lags is that Americans have an unusual tendency to perish in homicides or accidents. We are 12 times more likely than the Japanese to be murdered and nearly twice as likely to be killed in auto wrecks. In their 2006 book, The Business of Health, economists Robert L. Ohsfeldt […]
Posted in Environment, Unintended Consequences on Sep 3rd, 2009
Yesterday I wrote a little bit about the unintended health costs from the Cash for Clunkers program. Today I want to look on an overlooked environmental cost of the program. In the course of unfettered market activity what you would see is that as gas and oil prices increased, consumers would respond to these higher […]
