List: economics | Curated by clay schöntrup

Feb 5, 2025
34 stories
economics
clay schöntrup
poverty in the u.s.a.sure, america is rich. but a lot of people love to argue that this doesn’t really matter when it comes to the quality of life for the…
Feb 5
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Feb 5
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a georgist rationalist constitutionwe, the people of the united states, establish this constitution to secure individual liberty, mutual prosperity, and just governance…
Jan 31
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Jan 31
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the schöntrup index: a more nuanced measure of economic inequalitypronunciation: “shurn-trup” — the ‘ö’ sounds like the ‘u’ in “burn”, and the ‘up’ sounds like “oop” in “troop”
Jan 13
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Jan 13
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land value tax discussion with jeremiah johnsonJeremiah Johnson once commented to me that he felt land value tax (l.v.t.) has not just neutral but negative deadweight loss, in…
Jan 9
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Jan 9
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the gift card fallacy: misunderstanding value in economic transactionsgifts are a cornerstone of human relationships, but when it comes to economics, they can create inefficiencies. this “gift card fallacy”…
Dec 1, 2024
Dec 1, 2024
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Abolishing Public Parking: The Economic CaseThe economic inefficiencies of in-kind government benefits are well-documented. One of the most egregious examples is public parking. By…
Nov 15, 2024
Nov 15, 2024
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Market Equitism: A New Approach to Freedom and EqualityEconomic inequality is one of the most pressing challenges of our time. The gap between the rich and the poor has been widening in many…
Nov 2, 2024
Nov 2, 2024
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Expansionist Free Equitism: A Manifesto for Rational ProgressThe stakes could not be higher. We stand at a crossroads between a future of unprecedented human flourishing and a descent into…
Oct 27, 2024
Oct 27, 2024
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ticketshere’s something i wrote and sent to my management when i was a software engineer at live nation in april of 2008, prior to their merger…
Sep 3, 2024
Sep 3, 2024
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tax bracketsconsider the following table of tax rates.
Sep 9, 2023
Sep 9, 2023
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against subsidized housingthe correct amount of subsidized housing (or “affordable” housing) is zero. there are a number of reasons for this, but here are the most…
Apr 30, 2022
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Apr 30, 2022
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shortingin a traditional short sell, or short for…short, you borrow an asset that you believe will decline in value, sell it, then buy it back…
Jun 26, 2022
Jun 26, 2022
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does a land value tax have zero or negative deadweight loss?i was recently reading the wikipedia article on optimal taxation theory, when i came across an assertion that land value taxes (LVT) have…
Jun 26, 2022
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Jun 26, 2022
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how long will my money lasthere’s a formula you can type into a spreadsheet to see how long your money will last.
Dec 4, 2022
Dec 4, 2022
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carbon tax vs cap-and-tradein order to compare a carbon tax to cap-and-trade, we must first describe what a negative externality is.
Dec 21, 2022
Dec 21, 2022
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my political platform:
Dec 26, 2022
Dec 26, 2022
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cost“cost” is defined as an amount that has to be paid or spent to buy or obtain something.
Jan 23, 2023
Jan 23, 2023
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prices are a shortcuti recently encountered a stridently market-denying leftist on twitter, and i think their common misconceptions of economics are…
Feb 23, 2023
Feb 23, 2023
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