Monthly Archives: July 2009
How Selling Your Kidneys is Like Email
Kevin Drum gives a fair hearing to what he sees (and I agree) as some logical arguments in favor of organ markets, but walks away still queasy about the idea, listing four lingering objections to the idea. The whole post, … Continue reading
Filed under Economics
Two… No, Three Questions for Greg Mankiw
Greg Mankiw is a smart economist who sometimes likes to pose slightly loaded questions to public officials as a way of making a rhetorical point. Here are the queries he recently posed to President Obama: 1. During your campaign, you … Continue reading
All roads lead to Reagan
This will only be interesting to California fiscal history buffs, but it turns out that state spending today is about where it would have been had Proposition 13’s lesser-known ancestor managed to win voter approval. I’m talking about Proposition 1, … Continue reading
Filed under California, Economics, Politics
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