residents have swapped out soda and replaced that soda with beer. Pointedly, the study says Seattle’s soda tax “induced” consumers to buy more beer. …The PLoS study, by University of Illinois-Chicago researchers Lisa M. Powell and Julien Lader, ...
Which is why I’vetried to draw a distinctionbetween good globalism and bad globalism. Ilya Somin of George Mason University’s law school has a similar perspective. Here are some excerpts fromhis new article. The debate over world government and “global governance” typically pits cosmopolitan ...
He’s obnoxious, and he may be full of shit about other claims of his, but on this part he’s right. Of course, as a university president, he was part of the problem; those who are steadfastly against age segregation will find jobs in age-integrated settings. Here’s the thing. Ev...
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the University to which I almost applied to to pursue my PhD in the academic year of 2015 but eventually decided to work as a software engineer, was there as well to speak about “Migration, Economic Calculation, and the European Situation.” Prof. Mario Rizzo (New York University) had the...
“Switzerland, especially in popular votes, has never had a tradition of approving state intervention in the labor markets,” said Daniel Kubler, a professor of political science at the University of Zurich. “A majority of Swiss has always thought, and still seems to think, that liberal ...
This two-part series from Marginal Revolution University explains public goods, using the example of asteroid defense. Here’s an introductory video. And here’s a follow-up version that has a bit more detail. I’m writing about this wonky issue because the debate over public goods, at least...
There’s now even more evidence to share, thanks to new academic research by Gabriel Chodorow-Reich from Harvard, Matthew Smith from the Treasury Department, Owen Zidar from Princeton, and Eric Zwick from the University of Chicago. Here’s the most important finding. The authors have a jargon...
Mark August 16, 3766 on your calendar. According to…researchers at Tohoku University, that’s the date Japan’s population will dwindle to one. For 25 years, the country has had falling fertility rates, coinciding with widespread aging. The worrisome trend has now reached a critical mass know...