I’ll be doing an Ask Me Anything tonight at 9 PM EST on reddit. Here’s the link.
HT: Michael Tontchev for setting this up.
P.S. Please post your questions on reddit, not the EconLog comments.
I’ll be doing an Ask Me Anything tonight at 9 PM EST on reddit. Here’s the link.
HT: Michael Tontchev for setting this up.
P.S. Please post your questions on reddit, not the EconLog comments.
Feb 5 2014
Paul Collier's Exodus makes one great obvious-once-you-think-about-it point: diasporas matter.The third big thing we know [about immigration] is that the costs of migration are greatly eased by the presence in the host country of a diaspora from the country of origin. The costs of migration fall as the size of th...
Feb 4 2014
Here's Paul Krugman suggesting that the ECB has been in a liquidity trap for years: And yes, Europe is very much in a trap. Inflation is falling because the economy is weak, and the economy is being weakened in part by falling inflation. That's the Japan syndrome. It leads eventually to actual deflation, but to the ex...
Feb 4 2014
I'll be doing an Ask Me Anything tonight at 9 PM EST on reddit. Here's the link.HT: Michael Tontchev for setting this up.P.S. Please post your questions on reddit, not the EconLog comments.
READER COMMENTS
Scott
Feb 4 2014 at 4:07pm
Do you think social mobility is important independently of its consequences for overall welfare? In other words, would you trade some amount of GDP (or happiness or primary goods or whatever your metric is) for increased social mobility?
Colin French
Feb 4 2014 at 4:20pm
Firstly let me say that The Myth of the Rational Voter is one of my favorite books. One of my former econ professors, a GMU alumni, assigned it.
Do you believe that an improvement in Economic education at the secondary level would help create a more economically literate country, and improve the average voter’s understanding of these issues?
Ross Levatter
Feb 4 2014 at 4:32pm
Several years back I think you indicated you had 4 books in mind after your book about having more children. What’s the status on that?
Arpy
Feb 4 2014 at 4:36pm
Hey Bryan, I love your work! I’m a swedish student from Stockholm, being one of the few classic liberal students here makes me very thankful to ask you following.
The swedish model has been seen as quite an ideal among liberals (in the american use of the word). On the surface it looks successful (the big government discourse). How would you critisize/falsify/dissect that system, besides the obvious moral arguments?
Chris H
Feb 4 2014 at 4:47pm
In the event of a country adopting anarcho-capitalist conclusions, what consequence or set of consequences would you consider to be the least negative which would still convince you anarcho-capitalism was a failed idea? In other words, what negative results would push you over the margin from being pro- to anti-anarcho-capitalism?
NZ
Feb 4 2014 at 5:28pm
[Comment removed for irrelevance.–Econlib Ed.]
Mark
Feb 4 2014 at 6:59pm
Just one question: do you think that people read the postscripts on your posts?
Dangerman
Feb 4 2014 at 7:25pm
Competing will Will Ferrell today. That’s a tough act to follow.
Where’s the link?
Nothing in r/IAMA as of now…?
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