Homines libenter quod volunt credunt
Posted in Government Gone Wild on Mar 14th, 2012
From the USA Today (ht: Overlawyered): Hoteliers must have pool lifts to provide disabled people equal access to pools and whirlpools, or at least have a plan in place to acquire a lift. If they don’t, they face possible civil penalties of as much as $55,000. But hey, this sort of thing creates jobs, right? […]
Posted in Economics Problems, Economists, Macroeconomics on Mar 14th, 2012
I am sure my readers would wrinkle their eyebrows upon utterance of the name Brad DeLong. After all, this is a guy who regularly calls all Republicans hacks and does not shy away from throwing his opponents under the ad hominem bus. But that does not mean you ought not read some of the things […]
Posted in Politics on Mar 14th, 2012
My reading of the literature on urban economics (and migratory patterns of humans for 10,000 years) is that the net effect of people moving into cities is positive. Even as urban living introduces a whole host of difficult to bargain externalities, the peer effects, network effects and other agglomeration effects of living in big cities […]
