Showing posts with label public goods. Show all posts
Showing posts with label public goods. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 13, 2022

Lobster traps, whales, and the enforcement of informal property rights

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 An experiment to protect whales from becoming entangled in the long ropes that connect lobster traps on the sea floor to buoys on the surfa...
Tuesday, April 5, 2022

More on the looming shortage of new antibiotics

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 From Medpage Today: Superbugs Are Getting Stronger— Our defenses are getting weaker   by David Thomas, MS, and Emily Wheeler  " There ...
Friday, July 9, 2021

Fishery regulation involves onboard observers at sea--a very dangerous job

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 Next time you eat a salt water fish, spare a thought for how fisheries are regulated to keep them viable as a common pool resource.  There ...
Wednesday, July 15, 2020

The economics of antibiotics

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Penicillin changed the world, it gave us a weapon against disease causing bacteria. Other antibiotics followed. But then evolution changed ...
Friday, May 29, 2020

Human Challenge Trials for COVID-19 vaccines

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Yesterday I blogged about trying to speed up vaccine development and distribution by taking some of the risk out of it for pharma companies...
Friday, May 8, 2020

Human Challenge Trials (aka Controlled Human Infection studies) for corona virus vaccines

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What do we want?   A vaccine for covid-19. When do we want it?   After clinical trials and peer review. How can we get it faster?   By ...
Sunday, October 18, 2015

Christine Exley is an EconomicRockstar: on the Economics of Volunteering, Market Failure in the Homeless Dog Market and Wagaroo

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The Economic Rockstar podcast interviews   Christine Exley on the Economics of Volunteering, Market Failure in the Homeless Dog Market and ...
Friday, October 16, 2015

Climate negotiation design

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Axel Ockenfels writes: David MacKay, Peter Cramton, Steven Stoft and I published a comment on climate negotiation design today in Nature...
Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Fires and the market for fire fighters

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We are winning our ancient battle against fire: it turns out that fighting fires with fire fighters, and with fire-resistant construction i...
Sunday, February 17, 2013

Prisoner's dilemma, exam grading, and social media

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Long long ago I wrote an undergraduate exam that included a prisoner's dilemma question framed as the question of whether to study or no...
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Thursday, September 6, 2012

Fishery management in ancient Hawaii

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Ancient Civilizations Reveal Ways to Manage Fisheries for Sustainability " The authors of the study, titled "Multicentury trends...
Friday, February 17, 2012

A public good of a sort: a community gun

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The NY Times reports: In a Mailbox: A Shared Gun, Just for the Asking "Hidden and shared by a small group of people who use them when...
Sunday, June 26, 2011

Design of enforcement mechanisms: policing versus gunfighting

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A new addition to the experimental literature on how the possibility of punishment influences the efficient provision of public goods (and t...
Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Pro-social behavior of all kinds: Judd Kessler

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Judd Kessler defended his dissertation yesterday (successfully, I should add:). His work includes lab and field investigations of ch...
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Wednesday, April 20, 2011

A danceable economic experiment on public good provision

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Lights! Dancers! Economics! "If Milton Friedman and Martha Graham had a love child, it might look something like the "Tragedy of...
Friday, February 12, 2010

Cheating on CS homeworks, and social pressure

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The Temptation to Cheat in Computer Science Classes at Stanford is apparently great (just cut and paste some code if your assignment isn...
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Thursday, September 10, 2009

Deceased organ donation: advice from Steve Jobs

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Here's a 2-minute CNN video , at the beginning of which Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who recently received a deceased donor liver , advises us ...
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Thursday, September 3, 2009

Policing the lobster commons

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Lobsters are caught in traps that sit on the sea floor, marked by (and recovered via) buoys that float above, connected to the trap by a rop...
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Sunday, March 1, 2009

Medical data as an underprovided public good

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Evidence based medicine requires data that are often difficult to assemble. Since drugs and medical devices are regulated, regulators have t...
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Monday, February 16, 2009

Sustainable fisheries

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Nowhere is the "tragedy of the commons" clearer than in ocean fisheries, which are difficult to regulate and maintain in a sustain...