One of the most important questions to ask of any organization is whether it fulfills its purpose: does it do what it was designed to do? This question is frequently difficult to answer. Internal reviews tend to be biased in favor of the group; after all, if a group is auditing itself, it wishes to…
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Insights from Experiments for Public Economics and Public Policy
Recently, I had the honor of serving as a coeditor on a special issue of Public Finance Review with two incredible colleagues: Prof. James C. Cox of Georgia State University and Associate Professor Abhijit Ramalingam of Appalachian State University. “Public finance” can be defined narrowly as the study of the taxation and expenditure policies of governments at…
How Liberal College Students Learn The Downsides Of A $15 Minimum Wage
This piece first appeared on Townhall Finance. My social entrepreneurship students are confronted with an unpleasant but hard reality toward the end of their semester. Helping the most vulnerable populations, they find, often means abandoning the naive simplicity behind the $15 minimum wage. In fact, the concept of a “living wage” becomes an abstraction with…
Wicked Problems, Wicked Solutions 