April 27, 2015
In Finland, for some traffic violations, the rich have higher fines than those with less because of day fines that are similar to progressive taxation.
April 16, 2015
Website traffic can tell us the information we need from government and some clues about the federal budget.
April 13, 2015
While death rates are a seemingly easy way to assess healthcare spending, other perspectives like DALYs could be better when we consider the tradeoffs.
March 27, 2015
Because he revised his country's inaccurate deficit and received Eurostat approval, Greece's chief statistician might be prosecuted for "breach of faith."
March 19, 2015
One of many examples in Peter Schuck's new book, the Social Security program shows how government can be successful and also why it "fails so often."
January 8, 2015
With the House requiring dynamic scoring of tax legislation from the CBO, the bigger tax debate resurfaces on how much redistribution and spending.
December 28, 2014
The expense and complexities of switching to the metric system have prevented the change, and have affected how standard weights and measures help globalization.
December 22, 2014
Including congestion, wasted gas, time and emissions, cheap parking creates negative externalities that variable pricing of parking spaces can eliminate.
December 16, 2014
Relating income inequality to the stress felt by low status Bolivian Tsimane men and academy award losers, researchers said that stress that harms health.
December 11, 2014
Illustrated through word use and data selection in research, politically liberal and conservative economists display a tendency toward confirmation bias.
November 27, 2014
Increasing income inequality by moving from communal farming to individual plots, Plymouth Colony Governor William Bradford changed income redistribution.
November 13, 2014
Although protestors in Detroit and Ireland say water is a human right, economists, citing a definition of a public good and a tornado alarm, would disagree.