A Simple Way States Can Reduce Healthcare Spending
Repeal Certificate of Need requirements, assuming you are one of the ~35 states that have them. That’s what I find in a paper with Shishir Shakya just published in Health Economics. Certificate of Need laws require healthcare providers to obtain government approval before building new facilities or expanding services. The original intent of the laws…
Has Mexico’s “Canasta Básica” Policy Made Food More Affordable?
A recent article in The Guardian profiles economist Isabella Weber. She doesn’t seem to like other economists very much, supposedly because we “obsess over ideological purity and are inflexible when searching for solutions.” Weber wants economists to come up with solutions that work even if… I guess, even if they don’t work well in theory?…
WWII Strategic Initiatives 7. The Man Who Built the T-34 Tank That Helped Save Russia.
This is the seventh in a series of occasional blog posts on individual initiatives that made a strategic (not just tactical) difference in the course of the second world war. History’s most important machines often have a stubborn, slightly obsessive person behind them. For the Soviet T-34 tank, that was Mikhail Koshkin. Koshkin ran the…
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