12 hours ago by Mel

I posted the following comment to "CommonWealth:Assets vs. Income" by Will Rice on the Facebook page of the Coffee Party. It and the comments are various positions about taxing interest and capital gains. If John and Mary start a company and sell stock in it to you, you have made an investment. If l ...

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10 days ago by Economic Logician

Why do people give to charity? It could be because they care about others. It could be for tax reasons. It could be to offload some guilt. It could be to improve one's standing in society. It could be to encourage others to do the same. Or it could be a combination of all the above. In a more fundam ...

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47 days ago by auctor

Elinor Ostrom, the 2009 cowinner of the Nobel Prize, has a long body of work stressing the importance of communication for solving complex local public goods problems. In Ostrom's work, it is often low-level interactions between individuals that can make the difference in preserving common spaces an ...

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64 days ago by Thomas

This is a follow-up to “ Merit Goods, Positive Rights, and Cosmic Justice.” That post was inspired by a post at Austin Frakt’s blog, The Incidental Economist, about which John Goodman had this to say: Austin, on first reading, I thought you were saying that I (as a taxpayer) should help pay for your ...

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87 days ago by Manuel Lora

In one of my first posts on this blog I mentioned the usage of “the” as a catch-all term to include a variety of government-”offered” “goods” and “services” that people in general refer to offhandedly (“the” schools, “the” roads, etc.). The Florida Department of Health has launched a campaign to eli ...

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95 days ago by George Scoville

Photo: me, taken with HTC Droid Incredible I snapped the photo to the right on my way to the bank earlier (click to enlarge), a scene of a small park in the Eastern Market district southeast of the U.S. Capitol building. I dryly tweeted, “ Notice: nobody is working.” But all kidding aside (even thou ...

The Dangerous Servant - georgescoville.com · 4 references

96 days ago by Blogger Bryn

A mistake in Oban provides 50 seconds of fun http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-15611160 a) To what extent is a firework display a public good?

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97 days ago by Hope

In October, Henrico County opened a new rec center as part of a building boom financed by a "$349.3 million bond referendum approved by county voters in 2005." This article calls the Eastern Henrico Recreation Center the "jewel" of the project, which also included new and expanded fire stations. The ...

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124 days ago by Andreas Duus Pape

Wilco’s most critically acclaimed album, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, was released only after they were famously cut free from their original label ( Reprise Records, now owned by Warner Brothers). Foxtrot found its new home (on Nonesuch Records), says lead singer Jeff Tweedy, because of leaked tracks on t ...

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125 days ago by Jock

One of the deciding factors in doing my degree now was that with my IX course in "Economics, Politics and International Relations" Brookes is for the first time delivering a course that officially combines economics and politics. In my political journey from left-leaning statist political activist t ...

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