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Daily Archive for February 23rd, 2010

Is it Me, or Does This Seem to Violate Some Vague Notion of Justice?

Posted in ethical foundations on Feb 23rd, 2010

I am usually a fan of randomized experiments. But not this one: This paper analyzes a randomized tax enforcement experiment in Denmark.  In the base year, a stratified and representative sample of over 40,000 individual income tax filers was selected for the experiment.  Half of the tax filers were randomly selected to be thoroughly audited, […]

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Postcards from a Looter

Posted in Economic Illiteracy on Feb 23rd, 2010

This is a perfect illustration of how government officials think: Mary Tullius, director of the Division of State Parks and Recreation, doesn’t think so.  She says the state prides itself on giving Utah families affordable destinations like state parks. And if those destinations were made private, the quality would suffer. “History has told us that […]

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