Category: Policy
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Mark D. White I don't know how I missed this article, but thanks to the great folks at Coordination Problem and Cafe Hayek, I saw it, and it confirms so much of what I tell my students, especially in macro, as well as my intuitions regarding the proper role of economics. The piece is Russ Robert's "Is the Dismal…
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Mark D. White You win some, you lose some. My most recent letter to the Wall Street Journal, in response to Ralph Nader and Ralph Weissman's February 11 article against the Citizens United decision, "The Case Against Corporate Speech," went unpublished (the published letters are here). For what it's worth, here's what I wrote: I…
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Mark D. White Apparently, according to a recent AP article by Carla K. Johnson, present in both the House and Senate health care reform bills is a program in which workers at participating companies would be automatically enrolled – critics say "tricked into" enrolling – unless they opted out. People would see a deduction for…
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Mark D. White In his recent column, "The Values Question," David Brooks definitely has the right idea in general regarding health care reform, making a bold statement that I completely agree with (especially the bolded part, emphasis mine): It’s easy to get lost in the weeds when talking about health care reform. But, like all…
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Mark D. White Just found 2006 Nobel laureate Edmund Phelps' recent First Things article entitled "Economic Justice and the Spirit of Innovation" – to give you a quick idea of where he goes, here are the last two paragraphs of the article: Most observers now acknowledge that capitalism, even in the midst of the 1930s depression,…
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Welcome to Economics and Ethics, a new group academic blog which we hope will allow us—and you, our readers and commenters—to: Showcase and discuss new work in ethics-and-economics by scholars around the world, Discuss ways to include treatments of ethics in economics education, Announce new projects and initiatives in ethics-and-economics, including calls for papers for…
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