Eric Crampton

Great piece. The abundance-oriented on left and right have far more in common with each other than they do with the degrowthers and stasis-ists of both the left and right. Onwards and upwards.

Niskanen Center @NiskanenCenter

“Biden had anticipated, after quickly signing his infrastructure bill...that he would spend the rest of his presidency cutting ribbons at gleaming new bridges and plants.” That didn’t happen. @jonathanchait https://t.co/xNClby9USf

Same problem in New Zealand, where a new supermarket often has to prove that there's enough 'unmet demand' out there that the new supermarket wouldn't harm the 'amenity' provided by existing ones. In a just world, planners who do this would be up on cartel charges. https://t.co/C2bSfv1RK8

Peter Tulip @peter_tulip

Zoning restrictions favour existing interests over the broader public interest. Aaron Patrick has a good column. https://t.co/blT0wz7hVz

RT @jmhorp: Vernon Smith (Nobel Laureate, and still alive!) has been doing economic experiments since 1955 -- 70 years ago -- and publishin…

RT @patio11: I like the FT’s level of clarity here: https://t.co/tkhwYlfsdh

RT @MHReddell: Note how much lower the RB growth forecasts for the next couple of quarters are than the Tsy numbers out last week in the Bu…

RT @JohnHolbein1: This brand new @restatjournal article calls into question prior research that found that minimum wage hikes reduce povert…

RT @ponekeben: It makes absolutely no sense that I can crack open a beer outside whilst new owners struggle to obtain a liquor license. I'…

RT @Mylovanov: Russia is systematically torturing and killing Ukrainian prisoners of war. Russians deliberately cover up evidence through…

Universities are the opposite of entrepreneurial places. But whichever non-US universities figure out how to take on a pile more international students in a very big hurry will do very well.

Cole McFaul @colemcfaul

The White House just paused ALL visa interviews for foreign students. A disaster for longterm US competitiveness in emerging techs. Five months in, and the damage is adding up. A detailed account of the disruptions to US science, by month. 🧵 /40

RT @hamandcheese: US-PRC tech competition researcher 👇

RT @KirkegaardEmil: The causal effect of smoking weed seems to be you are more likely to get a cannabis use disorder diagnosis. The rest of…

This whole thing is so stupid. Land use planning rules make it next to impossible to open a new large-scale large-footprint grocery chain. Easing those rules would enable entry. Tomorrow, we're releasing a plan on how to do that. Stay tuned.

New Zealand Taxpayers' Union @TaxpayersUnion

🔄 Forcing supermarket restructures doesn’t make food cheaper. It just makes New Zealand look unstable https://t.co/HYsYan55YW https://t.co/d5ZzsZQ4za

RT @crampell: The pro-family president, taking away childcare options one by one

Jeremy is right, but with a caveat. A determined person could ruin their credit rating to constrain themselves against spending too much on credit cards: make yourself unbankable. It would be a terrible idea.

Jeremy Horpedahl 🥚📉 @jmhorp

Reminder that "starve the beast" -- a popular theory among libertarians and conservatives -- doesn't work. Trying to shrink government by cutting taxes doesn't work -- if anything, it does the opposite, causing future tax increases https://t.co/YuVTuLgQL5 https://t.co/VeJsVXqmv5

RT @cremieuxrecueil: Great post summarizing the issue of LNT in nuclear. While the evidence for radiation hormesis isn't itself all that g…

RT @cremieuxrecueil: Using weed is associated with lots of bad outcomes. For most of those outcomes, the association is due to selection.…