Pinnedclay shentrup·Apr 19, 2025mankiw’s greatest u.b.i. argumenteven economic students fall for bad anti-ubi arguments and fail to see economic equivalency, choosing one identical plan over another based…
Pinnedclay shentrup·Apr 27, 2025don’t tax the rich, pay the poor: rethinking economic equalitypeople often call for taxing the rich to address inequality. curiously, they almost never seem to realize the problem can be solved from…A response icon1A response icon1
clay shentrup·1d agothe road to housingthe 21st century road to housing act hits the books at midnight via constitutional default, and the day-one structural shifts are massive…A response icon1A response icon1
clay shentrup·Jun 21Seattle Just Moved Its Real Election to AugustWhat ranked-choice voting in the primary does to the city, traced through a simulation of all seven districts.A response icon1A response icon1
clay shentrup·Jun 20The Only Voting Reform Worth FundingSixteen years ago I co-wrote an essay arguing that the way we count votes, not American temperament or geography or the conspiracies of the…A response icon4A response icon4
clay shentrup·May 31more buildings is not more productivewhat a land value tax actually does, and the one thing about welfare we can ever know for sure
clay shentrup·May 30taxing rent fixes nothing you actually care about a reply to “rent: a new framework”there is one tax that economists across the spectrum accept as efficient. milton friedman called the land value tax the least bad tax…A response icon1A response icon1
clay shentrup·May 27hostage votingcritics of approval and score voting fixate on “bullet voting” — the worry that voters will only mark their favorite and reduce the ballot…
clay shentrup·May 23the bullet voting bugabooapproval voting is an alternative voting method in which voters may select as many candidates as they wish. there is no ranking. but…A response icon1A response icon1
