Contra Mankiw on political philosophy
Harvard economist Greg Mankiw, someone I greatly respect, wrote an article for The New York Times a few years ago on the political philosophy of economists. The thesis of his piece is two-fold. First,...
View ArticleBeef bans likely reduce animal welfare
[Note: Beef bans probably significantly diminish human welfare, because, in some contexts, beef is a cheaper meat than many alternatives, because beef is a key export, and because beef bans are often...
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Minimum wages in a monopsony
A well-known result in microeconomics is that a monopsony in a labor market produces a deadweight loss (assuming it does not wage-discriminate), leading to the counterintuitive result that some binding...
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Unintended consequences and HIV testing
I’m trying to blog more actively, and I figure that a good way to start is to write small pieces about research that I read. A new working paper by Yang et al. (2021) suggests that interventions that...
View ArticleLaunching a Substack!
I’m launching a new Substack newsletter! It’s called The Disagreement Theorem. All posts made there will also be cross-posted to this website, and I plan to keep this website as my personal webpage....
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