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• How to Spend a Billion Dollars: Best Answers, by Bryan Caplan

  
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  Thanks for all 115 answers to my " how to spend a billion dollars " challenge.  Two general observations: 1. When you claim that X is most efficient way for the federal government to spend an extra billion dollars, you should point to a large externality you propose to fix - and argue that the supply response ...
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• The Conservation Economy in America: Direct Investments and Economic Contributions

  
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  Southwick Associates for the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation http://bit.ly/16mieAO [ Americas Voice for Conservation, Recreation and Preservation ]  An April 2013 study by Southwick Associates, “The Conservation Economy in America: Direct investments and economic contributions” reports that conservation ...
  2 weeks ago

• Rector, Poverty, and Immigration, by Bryan Caplan

  
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  Robert Rector and Jason Richwines new Heritage report on the fiscal effects of immigration has been widely criticized (see here , here , and here for starters).  Im honestly surprised that the report is not worse.  Rector and Richwine may get a lot wrong, but at least they account for the fact that a lot of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Owen, Sawhill, and "the" Return to Education, by Bryan Caplan

  
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  Yesterday I attended a roundtable discussion on the new Brookings brief, " Should Everyone Go to College? "  The authors, Stephanie Owen and Isabel Sawhill, succinctly document a point that labor economists routinely neglect: there aint no such thing as "the" return to education.  This doesnt merely mean that some ...
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• Booming Cost of Marathons

  
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  The Akron Marathon is cheap by comparison. If you wait until the expo to sign up for the event, you would pay $115, which is just a couple dollars more than the national average for marathon entry fees ($112). You can still get change for paying with a portrait of Ben Franklin until the end of this month. With a high ...
  2 weeks ago

• Teaching Resource: Redsands Cost Benefit Analysis

  
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  Redsands CBA is a substantial teaching resource which allows students to examine and then present back the costs and benefits of various possible projects that could be implemented within a derelict part of a city centre. This resource is designed to enable students to understand and analyse the concept of Cost ...
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• Adam Smith on the Public Choice of Foreign Intervention, by David Henderson

  
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  Why the 13 colonies are a net loser for Great Britain: A great empire has been established for the sole purpose of raising up a nation of customers who should be obliged to buy from the shops of our different producers all the goods with which these could supply them. For the sake of that little enhancement of price ...
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• Obama Nominates Howard Shelanski to Lead Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs

  
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  Last Thursday, President Obama nominated Howard Shelanski as administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA). If confirmed, Shelanski would replace Cass Sunstein, who resigned from the position last August, leaving behind a record of lengthy delays. Shelanski is currently the ...
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• The Grave Evil of Unemployment, by Bryan Caplan

  
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  Free-market economists rarely declare, "We have to do X about unemployment."  Why not?  Free-market economists standard reply is just, "We expect X to fail."  Their critics, however, have a less favorable explanation: Free-market economists oppose X because free-market economists are cavalier and callous.  They ...
  4 weeks ago

• Going Global with CBA

  
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  oing Use of CBA in developing countries poses special challenges.  Valuation data is rarely available for those countries, so regulatory benefits have to be extrapolated from studies of developed countries (often the U.S.)  Resources are smaller, and expertise may be scarce.  Even the authors, despite their ...
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