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Tuesday, January 03, 2006

Normative Economics

Check out this piece in Slate on economics and health care decisions. I will comment more fully later, but a few quick notes.

  • Landsburg, I seem to recall, is basically a nut. He's surely not good at rhetoric.

  • His framing of the issue doesn't seem helpful.

  • I hate contrarianism for the sake of contrarianism, except when I do it.

  • Still, it's worth thinking about. How do we make these tradeoffs?



[UPDATE: fixed a spelling error]
[UPDATE: Becker and Posner discuss the same thing this week, in the context of a market for organs.]

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