Reminder: Talk at Webber International University

David Henderson

By David Henderson, Feb 21 2018

I will be speaking on Thursday at 7:00 p.m. at Webber International University, Babson Park, Florida.

Topic: Economic Inequality: Popular Misunderstandings and Important Facts

Place: Yentes Conference Center
1201 N Scenic Hwy
Babson Park, FL 33827

If you’re an EconLog reader and you show up, please come up to say hi before or after the talk.

I am seeing a disturbing rise in "free lunch" thinking. One place this increasingly shows up is in the case of "deficits". People seem to have trouble grasping that deficit spending implies future austerity. Let's start with an electric company. Suppose it plans on being in business forever. It decides to issue ...

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Way back in The Undercover Economist, Tim Harford taught us the wonder of "keyhole solutions" for social ills: Keyhole surgery techniques allow surgeons to operate without making large incisions, minimizing the risk of complications and side effects. Economists often advocate a similar strategy when trying to fix a po...

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Reminder: Talk at Webber International University

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