tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20142791.post7201151604737507136..comments2024-03-11T07:41:19.149-04:00Comments on The Perfect Substitute: Incentives MatterUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20142791.post-4256445562325050882007-03-07T17:41:00.000-05:002007-03-07T17:41:00.000-05:00Maybe our blog hosts should present to the audienc...Maybe our blog hosts should present to the audience economic investigations of such things as bulding codes, especially those regulating the use of electricity, another relatively new technology as is the automobile. Our host somehow believe that our free society puts the burden on the users of a new technology to "debug" its safety aspects one accident at a time, when the probability of those accidents could/should have been foreseen well in advance based on the nature of the invention itself.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20142791.post-31477166874531848042007-01-31T22:34:00.000-05:002007-01-31T22:34:00.000-05:00The net effect of seatbelt laws on fatalities was ...The net effect of seatbelt laws on fatalities was nil; I would suspect that seatbelt laws, in causing more crashes, would probably have an *positive* realtionship on total injuries suffered during crashes. Remember-- seatbelts aren't designed to keep you from getting hurt, they are designed to keep you from getting killed.<br /><br />Combine that with the distortions to the automobile industry...Matt E. Ryanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00290146649328322694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20142791.post-34459486923413663472007-01-30T12:28:00.000-05:002007-01-30T12:28:00.000-05:00North Carolinians are evidently poor economists:
...North Carolinians are evidently poor economists:<br /><br />http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=8297442&dopt=AbstractUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07799728813807809539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20142791.post-73815738269985323192007-01-30T01:43:00.000-05:002007-01-30T01:43:00.000-05:00Of course, it probably makes more sense to minimiz...Of course, it probably makes more sense to minimize injuries or fatalities rather than accidents per se. Even if there is in fact an inverse relationship between seatbelt use and accident frequency, I would guess that there is a dominating inverse relationship between seatbelt use and mortality/injury rate.<br /><br />--TomThomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07581607263422875506noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20142791.post-82380630486141718622007-01-29T11:42:00.000-05:002007-01-29T11:42:00.000-05:00Russ published a paper on NASCAR?
Excellent.Russ published a paper on NASCAR?<br /><br />Excellent.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07799728813807809539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20142791.post-70376833550490651342007-01-27T22:04:00.000-05:002007-01-27T22:04:00.000-05:00Ironically enough, Russ told me last night that he...Ironically enough, Russ told me last night that he gets at this question in a footnote in the paper you linked to.<br /><br />Both he and Leeson immediately chimed in with Tullock.<br /><br />I think I'm losing this battle.Matt E. Ryanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00290146649328322694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20142791.post-86394226186877452252007-01-27T11:02:00.000-05:002007-01-27T11:02:00.000-05:00Yeah, Landsburg cites Alchian in the Armchair Econ...Yeah, Landsburg cites Alchian in the Armchair Economist, but I've seen other authors cite other people too.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09677258044243356922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20142791.post-44472239625577070992007-01-26T15:50:00.000-05:002007-01-26T15:50:00.000-05:00It was from the Armchair Economist, wasn't it? Al...It was from the Armchair Economist, wasn't it? Alchian sticks in my mind for some reason.Matt E. Ryanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00290146649328322694noreply@blogger.com