Showing posts with label undercover economist. Show all posts
Showing posts with label undercover economist. Show all posts
February 10, 2018

Tim Harford, as an Undercover Statistician, why do you agree with the Basel Committee?

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Sir, I refer to Tim Harford’s “ Everything you need to know about statistics — on a postcard ” February 10. After reading it, I have on...
May 21, 2016

Is Tim Harford, the undercover economist, just covering up for other economist colleagues?

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Sir, Tim Harford, The undercover economist, writes about “matching mechanisms to address allocation problems without resorting to tradition...
April 30, 2016

What a government spends is a lousy proxy for what the citizens receive; it ignores redistribution costs and profits

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Sir, Tim Harford writes that the idea of a universal basic income “appeals to three types of people: those who are comfortable with a drama...
March 12, 2016

Tim Harford, what about taxing the sin of excessive risk aversion instead of subsidizing it?

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Sir, I refer to Tim Harford’s “ These are the sins we should be taxing ” March 12. Mark Twain supposedly said: “A banker is a fellow wh...
September 13, 2014

On allocating resources, why does the undercover economist care more about donations than bank credit?

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Sir, I refer to Tim Harford’s “ Ice bucket challenge: the cold facts ” September 13. In it he refers to the problem that many very well...
July 05, 2014

Undercover Economist Harford, instead of "the volatility express" the rest of us we have, thanks to regulators, the volatility ball and chain.

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Sir, in October 2004, in a written formal statement at the World Bank, as an Executive Director, I warned : “We believe that much of the wo...