woensdag 29 juli 2009
Fundamental paper for health care
The other day I claimed that most published economic papers are imitations with slight adjustments and that in all there are maybe not more than 50 seminal papers which will stay relevant for ever.
For health economics there is probably no paper more important than
For those who still need to read it, they have now some background info as well:
Why is supply and demand so confusing?
For those who teach principles of economics, this post by Scott Sumner is worth contemplating.Scott does a good job explaining why the model of supply and demand is not always as straightforward as it seems. Why? I would put the answer as follows: Supply and demand curves are always drawn "holding other things constant." The key question when considering any possible shift in these curves is which other things are being held constant in the situation at hand.
Greg Mankiw's Blog (July 28, 2009)
Impôt vert
Comme tout impôt, la taxe carbone est, a priori, impopulaire. Pour que ce nouveau prélèvement ait une chance d'être accepté, il doit, comme les autres, répondre à trois critères : il doit être simple, juste et efficace.
Lisez l'article d'opinion ici.
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