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Tyler Cowen • Why don't more businesses use prediction markets? - Marginal REVOLUTION
“Maximizing the most good for the most number of people” can lead to repugnant conclusions when applied at-scale
Erik Hoel • EconTalk on Apple Podcasts
Not long after arriving at George Mason, Cowen read “Sexual Personae”by Camille Paglia, a buccaneering polemic about Western art across millennia. Although he didn’t agree with Paglia’s ideas, he saw this was the kind of book he wanted to write. Within months he was drafting a lively, popular history of markets and high culture. In 2003 he and Taba... See more
archive.ph • Tyler Cowen, the Man Who Wants to Know Everything
Allowing Homo economicus to do as he wants, to give Ayn Rand– style freedom to let the market reign, will, by Becker’s measurements, increase welfare.
Raj Patel • The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy
cleverest observer. Consider
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
deadweight loss
Alex Taborrok • Modern Principles of Economics
The typical economist believes the world has not yet invented a problem that he cannot fix if given a free hand to design the proper incentive scheme.
Stephen J. Dubner • Freakonomics
Economically relevant information is discovered from experimentation, not deduced from a model.