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Economics and Liberty (These papers are intended for the use of my ECON 3437 class only)
Schedule and Readings:
January 18. Syllabus and Introduction
Bruce Yandle: My Trade Deficit...
The Most important truth about hard work, and also reading, that you can find
Podcast: How Not to Be Terrible at College
January 25. Reading Day!
February 1. Bodies (Guest: James Stacey Taylor)
Paul M. Hughes, Exploitation, Autonomy, and the Case for Organ Sales International Journal of Applied Philosophy 12, 1 (1998): 89--95.
Paul Hughes, Constraint, Consent, and Well-Being in Human Kidney Sales Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 34, 6 (2009): 606-631.
Samuel J. Kerstein, Autonomy, Moral Constraints, and Markets in Kidneys Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 34, 6 (2009): 573-585
T. L. Zutlevics (2001). Markets and the Needy: Organ Sales or Aid? Journal of Applied Philosophy 18, 3 (2001):297-302.
Janet Radcliffe Richards et al, The case for allowing Kidney Sales Lancet 351 (1998): 1950-52.
February 8. Markets and Catholic Social Thought (Margaret Taylor-Ulizio) .
Changing Economy and the New Code of Canon Law
And if you get bored: Check out this blog
You most likely have read these, but if there is extra time (if not, at least skim them):
February 15. Reading Day! HW (This homework is due, by email, to me by the end of this classtime - it is due to me by 1:00 on Friday 2/15)
February 22. The Morality of Capitalism (with Greg Salmieri)
Ayn Rand "Man's Rights" and "The Nature of Government"
March 1. Exam (12-1)
March 8. Clark Neily
Jacobs v. Jacobs (NY 1885)
Lochner v. New York (NY 1905)
Williamson v. Lee Optical (US 1955)
Patel v. Texas Dept. of Licensing & Regulation (Tex 2015) (Willett, J., concurring)
Neily, Beating Rubber Stamps Into Gavels: A Fresh Look At Occupational Freedom (2016)
Berliner, et al., Occupational Licensing Run Wild (2017)
March 15. SPRING BREAK!
March 22. Optimal Tax Policy (Sara LaLumia)
Measuring the Effects of Corporate Tax Cuts
Is This Tax Reform, or Just Confusion?
March 29. Voting (Once again, James Stacey Taylor)
Vote Buying and Election Promises: Should Democrats Care About the Difference?
The Causes and Consequences of Vote Buying
Vote Selling and Self-Interested Voting
April 5. No Class - HW (This homework is due, by email, to me by the end of this classtime - it is due to me by 1:00 on Friday 4/5)
April 12. Drugs and Crime (Guest: Angela K. Dills)
The Minimum Leagal Drinking Age and Public Health
Ride-Sharing, Fatal Crashes, and Crime
Social Host Liability and Under-aged Drunk-driving Acidents
April 19. No Class - Happy Easter!
April 26. Education and Fungibility (with Rey Hernandez-Julian)
Is the Return to Education the Same for Everybody?
Tim Harford’s guide to statisticsin a misleading age
Why have Undergraduate Grades Increased?
Knowledge Decay between Semesters
Student Appearance and Academic Performance
Brian Caplan on EconTalk
May 3. Good Profit (Guest: Brian Brenberg) .
Book - I will give it to you in class.
Final Exam May 9, 10:45-12:10
Inequality (Guest: Sean Mulholland, also here)
Public Policy, Susan Athey on EconTalk
Peter Gottschalk "Inequality, Income Growth, and Mobility: The Basic Facts" The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 11, No. 2, Spring 1997, 21-40
Dalton Conley "Don't Blame the Billionaires: Who Cares About the Excesses of the Rich? It's the Fate of the Poor that Matters" The American Prospect. December 15, 2009
Tyler Cowen "The Inequality that Matters" The American Interest Magazine. January- February 2011
Emmanuel Saez "Striking it Richer: The Evolution of Top Incomes in the United States"
The Impact of Unemployment Benefit Extensions on Employment Hagedorn, Manovskii, and Mitman
Taxing the rich won't solve inequality
World poverty rate to fall below 10% for the first time
A $15 minimum wage would hurt entry-level workers
Is There Income Mobility in America
The Unfairness of Equal Outcomes
The Environment .
What's really warming the world?
Benjamin Zycher on solar power
Thomas Schelling on Adapting to Climate Change
Free-Market Environmentalism Is Literally for the Birds
Environmental Economics: The key to understanding Environmental Economics is understanding unintended consequences
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The Seattle Minimum Wage Study
Can this be true? And if it is, what does it mean?
Old Readings:
Hernando
Free Trade Alan Blinder
EPAs Endangerment Finding Endangers Economy
Variable Pricing Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson. The Financial Times. 2009
Externalities
Coase, Ronald. The
Problem of Social Cost. Journal of Law and Economics 3, no. 1 (1960):
1–44.
Morris M. Kleiner and Robert T. Kudrle “Does Regulation Affect Economic Outcomes? The Case of Dentistry” Journal of Law and Economics, Vol. 43, No. 2 (Oct., 2000), pp. 547-582.
Medical Licensing: An Obstacle to Affordable, Quality Care by Shirley Svorny
Anca M. Cotet and Dan Benjamin “Medical regulation and Health Outcomes: The impact of the Physician Examination Requirement”
MBN 13, 17-19, 24
Tuner, Chad, Robert. F. Tamura, Sean E. Mulholland, Scott L. Baier. 2007. "Education and Income of the States of the United States: 1840-2000," 2007. Journal of Economic Growth, 12:2, 101-158.
Other works, Read at least one (more if you have some free time):
Medoff, Marshall. 1999. "Allocation of Time and Hateful Behavior: A Theoretical Analysis of Hate and Hate Crimes." American Journal of Economics and Sociology 58: 959-973.
Gale, Lewis R., Will C. Heath, and Rand W. Ressler. 2002. "An Economic Analysis of Hate Crime." Eastern Economic Journal 28: 203-15.
“A Comparative Look at Private and Public Schools’ Class Size Determinants,” (2010). Education Economics, 18:4, 435-454. (with Angela K. Dills)
“The Faculty Flutie Factor: Does Athletic Performance Affect a University’s US News and World Report Peer Assessment Score?” (with Aleksandar (Sasha) Tomic and Samuel N. Sholander)
Mulholland, Sean. 2011. "Hate Source: White Supremacist Hate Groups and Hate Crime" Working Paper.
Mulholland, Sean. 2010. Hate Fuel: On the Relationship Between Local Government Policy and Hate Group Activity. Eastern Economic Journal, Vol. 36, No. 4, pp. 480-499.
Iannaccone, Laurence R. 1992. "Sacrifice and Stigma: Reducing Free-riding in Cults, Communes, and Other Collectives," Journal of Political Economy, 100(2), 271-291.
Ryan, Matt E., and Peter T. Leeson. 2010. "Hate Groups and Hate Crimes". Working Paper.
Sobel, Russell S. and Brian J. Osoba. 2009. "Youth Gangs as Pseudo-Governments: Implications for Violent Crime," Southern Economic Journal 75:4, pp. 996-1018.
Retrofit buildings more eco-friendly than 'green' construction
Education (Guest: Angela K. Dills) Sean, also here
Milton Friedman (1962) The Role of Government in Education Chapter 6 in Capitalism and Freedom. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp. 85-107.
Jeff Miron (2001) The Case Against Public Colleges and Universities. The Milken Institute Review, Spring 2001.
(This is a long, but good, one)
Rey:
Government Policy and Tuition in Higher Education
Efficiency and Externalities
Weighing Benefits and Costs of Unemployment Insurance
Milligan, Moretti, and Oreopoulos Does Education Improve Citizenship? Evidence from the U.S. and the U.K.
Property Rights and Liberty
The Use of
Knowledge in Society
If you have a little extra time you could also read:
Property Rights
Bootleggers and Baptists in Retrospect
Bruce Yandle. Regulation.
We the Living (Guest: Robert A Mayhew)
Book - I will give it to you in class.
Angela
Miron and Zwieble. 1995 The Economic Case against Drug Prohibition
Mark Thornton Alcohol Prohibition was a Failure
Dose of Reality: The Effect of State Marijuana Legalizations
Globalization of the U.S. Black Market: Prohibition, The War on Drugs, and the Case of Mexico
Three View's on America's Longest War
Miron Drug War Crimes
Friedman Drugs, Violence and Economics
Why Is the U.S. Prison Population So Large?
Randy Barnett on ‘the harms of drug prohibition’
Friedman Why Drugs Should Be Legalized
Taxes
The State and Local Tax Deduction
Anderson and Rees Counterpoint
Asbridge, Hayden, and Cartwright
Restoring Faith in Financial Markets John C. Bogle
Morality and Markets:
Maybe: Ian Ayers on EconTalk, , Tyler Cowen on EconTalk
Markets, the Fed, and the Financial Crisis
Immigration (Guest: Peter Jaworski)
Are immigrants more likely to commit crimes?
A Libertarian Argument Against Open Borders
Aliens and Citizens: The Case for Open Borders
The Fallacy of Open Immigration
. Regulation (with Patrick McLaughlin) . . .
Regulation and Income Inequality
Susan E. Dudley and Jerry Brito, Regulation: A Primer, pp. 1-10, 35-56, 89-104.
Office of Management and Budget, Executive Order 12,866
Jerry Ellig and Patrick McLaughlin The Quality and Use of Regulatory Analysis in 2008
Property Rights and Exam
If you are looking for something a little extra: Constitution of Liberty, Essays in Persuasion
An interview with Charles Koch
Tax Policy
Optimal Taxation in Theory and Practice
Can the Graduated Income Tax Survive Optimal Tax Analysis?
A Review of Recent Research on Labor Supply Elasticities
On Corporate Taxes:
Corporate Expatration, Inveersions, and Mergers: Tax Issues
Strengthening the Indispensable U.S. Corproate Tax