by Dan Mitchell | Oct 18, 2019 | Blogs, Economics
There’s an entire field of economics called “public choice” that analyzes the (largely perverse) incentive structures of politicians and bureaucrats. But is economic analysis also helpful to understand voting and elections? In the past, I’ve suggested that political...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 17, 2019 | Blogs
I wrote a three-part series (here, here, and here) about “jury nullification,” which is the notion that jurors can declare defendants not guilty if they think the underlying law is unjust or immoral. We have an example of this happening in New Orleans, though it...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 16, 2019 | Blogs, Education
I’ve shared examples of brain-dead behavior by bureaucrats at the Transportation Security Agency. But the folks at the TSA may be paragons of wisdom and judgement compared to administrators at government schools. Those bureaucrats seem incapable of improving test...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 15, 2019 | Blogs, Economics
Last year, I wrote a column that investigated why the left is fixated on the unequal distribution of income and wealth, yet doesn’t seem to care at all about unequal distribution of attractiveness. The question becomes even more intriguing when you consider that...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 14, 2019 | Big Government, Blogs, Regulations
For a multitude of reasons, I wasn’t a fan of Mitt Romney’s candidacy in 2012. But when supporters of Barack Obama accused him of somehow being responsible for a woman who died from cancer, I jumped to his defense by pointing out the link between unnecessary deaths...
