Homines libenter quod volunt credunt
Posted in Health Care, Regulation on Sep 10th, 2012
Wintercow’s post today brought this IOM poster to mind from Ezra Klein: Hmm, it’s intriguing that best practices in health care would have so much to mimic from other (competitive!) industries. There are good arguments a la Robin Hanson for cutting health spending in half, but they’re orthogonal to the boots-on-the-ground efficiencies that competition in health […]
Posted in Economic Illiteracy, Methodology, Uncategorized on Sep 10th, 2012
How many times have you heard directly or at least been able to infer that, “Economics just doesn’t apply to that!” I hear it quite often, even from within the echo-chamber of economists. You’ll probably most likely encounter it in discussions/arguments about health care and the environment, or some other social phenomenon of importance. Before […]
