Bleg: The Present Discounted Value of a Newborn Taxpayer Bryan Caplan By Bryan Caplan, Apr 22 2011 SHARE POST: I’m looking for estimates of the PDV of a newborn American baby from the point of view of the consolidated government budget, a.k.a. the “fiscal externality” of a birth. Other than Lee and Miller (1990), I’m not finding much. Anything I’m missing?
Apr 23 2011 Economic and Political Philosophy Rights: A License to Kill? Bryan Caplan I am a libertarian and a pacifist. Contrary to many, the two are not merely compatible; given the ugly realities of the world, the former implies the latter. As I've put it before:I'm a pacifist not because I oppose self-defense, but because it's virtually impossible to fight a war of self-defense. Ev... 30 Read More
Apr 23 2011 Energy, Environment, Resources David Friedman on "Sustainability" David Henderson As I mentioned in an earlier post, my university is big on "sustainability;" it has just been having an extended event designed to boost the idea. I responded to an email urging faculty members to introduce sustainability into one of their classes by asking if it was all right if I argued against it in mine, and sugges... 18 Read More
Apr 22 2011 Family Economics Bleg: The Present Discounted Value of a Newborn Ta... Bryan Caplan I'm looking for estimates of the PDV of a newborn American baby from the point of view of the consolidated government budget, a.k.a. the "fiscal externality" of a birth. Other than Lee and Miller (1990), I'm not finding much. Anything I'm missing? 17 Read More