#Incentives

Geoffrey Supran

GeoffreySupran

GM's new EV ad is entertaining for sure. But it also:Discourages carpoolingPromotes misplaced American exceptionalismDisregards GM's decades undermining climate science & pollution regsFails to note Norway's success is due t

Lee Schofield

leeinthelakes

Took a wet walk through some first class WOOD PASTURE on the shore of #ullswater this morning. Here's a thread to explain why it's such a fantastic habitat, and why

Sandy Douglas

sandyddouglas

Kate Bingham, Die Welt (in English, free) Best explainer I've seen re UK vaccine success: put someone in charge who picks biotech winners for a living, then 'be a good

Sam Bowman

s8mb

The UK's planning system is the no 1 reason it is so poor – poorer than Germany, the US, Belgium – even France.Everyone knows this – it's why housing is

Jason Abaluck

Jabaluck

COVID was a preventable disaster. Many ideas existed that could have helped that were not tried because no one had an incentive to test them. The government can provide incentives

Zero HP Lovecraft

0x49fa98

If a small child scrapes her knee, her parent might "kiss it better". This does nothing, but both parties appreciate the ritual. Hanson finds that empirically, many medical interventions do

Eli

eli_enis

Been thinking about the concept of track premieres again...something I still get dozens of PR emails about each day...and how they're based on a music journalism economy that virtually doesn't

SimDeBro

simdebro

Dear fellow data subjects, here's a thread about a paper I just published - about how you often knowingly (or not) share your peers' data along your own, and how

Nickolas Means

nmeans

Don’t let @GovAbbott shift blame to ERCOT. Their communication has been bad, and their winter worst-case scenario predictions weren’t nearly dire enough, but they also saved us from a much

Faizan Siddiqi

faizansiddiqi

Digital Pakistan without (Digital) Pakistani Rails is a solution that no one needs. Digital Pak was ill conceived, like yet an other last minute policy/political goal.The intent was good as

Ali Yahya

ali01

The business model for a blockchain might seem magical. Why should the cryptocurrencies that drive them be worth anything at all? How do they capture value? And, how are they

Rick Hills

RickHills2

With Twitter’s expulsion of Trump, “state action” is now on people’s minds. David Strauss classic “State Action After the Civil Rights Era” provides a helpful functional model for thinking about

Morgan Michaels

morgmichaels

This is a thread about the foreign Myanmar observer/analyst community and some things we should be wary of. As reluctant as I am to wade into the topic, I feel

Robert Kearns

RobertKearns

Thread David Ismay saying“We didn’t find a lot of bulk benefit there,” [in public transit] also says we need to “break their will” and “turn the screws on” ordinary people.

Raoul Pal

RaoulGMI

Do we have the wrong denominator?Many of us believe that Fed money printing is creating an asset bubble. But when we switch the denominator to the Fed balance sheet equities

Mr. Fox

StockFox3

I'm a regulatory compliance atty and have handled state and federal demands, exams, and investigations of various scope over the last 10+ years. A few thoughts on the Hburg/Clover matter.

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