I will be giving my speech “How Economists Helped End the Draft” at Adrian College in Adrian, Michigan this Thursday at 6:00 p.m. I couldn’t find anything about it at Adrian College’s web site, but the above poster gives time and place.
Earlier in the day I’m giving a guest lecture in a class on globalization, but I’m pretty sure that attendance is restricted to students in the class.
If you attend, please come up and say hi afterwards.
Nov 7 2017
I've spent the last seventeen years trying to max out my mortgage interest deduction. So when I first read about the new Republican tax plan, my heart sank. Curses! Will all my careful scheming be brought to nothing? From the Washington Post:The change to the mortgage interest deduction drew immediate...
Nov 7 2017
by Pierre Lemieux The history of Puerto Rico, its current travails, and the theories of its famous governor Rex Tugwell provide a good illustration of a simple conclusion of economic analysis. The Economist of October 19 observes that, one month after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, 82% of the island's resident...
Nov 6 2017
I will be giving my speech "How Economists Helped End the Draft" at Adrian College in Adrian, Michigan this Thursday at 6:00 p.m. I couldn't find anything about it at Adrian College's web site, but the above poster gives time and place. Earlier in the day I'm giving a guest lecture in a class on globalization, but I'm...
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andy weintraub
Nov 6 2017 at 9:04pm
Hi David,
Just wondering: In the years up to my getting my Ph.D. in economics at Rutgers University in 1966, one of my favorite teachers/mentors was a man by the name of Harry Gilman. He was a Chicago Ph.D. who studied under H. Gregg Lewis and Albert Rees, focusing on labor economics, which was my specialty as well. He left Rutgers to work with the group that was doing research on the draft. I’m not sure if it was for the DOD, but I believe Milton Friedman was one of the prime movers.
Thanks,
Andy Weintraub
Emeritus, Temple University Economics Department
David R Henderson
Nov 6 2017 at 10:55pm
@andy Weintraub,
Harry was a colleague of mine at U. of Rochester my first year there, 1975-76. I talk about him at some length in my piece at Econ Journal Watch. Here’s the link. Allen Wallis quotes him about mercenaries.
Thaomas
Nov 7 2017 at 8:45pm
I think that economists role in inventing the EITC is more praiseworthy and — when it comes to pass — the carbon tax as a superior way of dealing with CO2 emissions externalities over technology sfecific subsidies and regulation.
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