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  • H1N1 and you: the economics of pandemics in brief

    October 27th, 2009

    As we enter this cold and flu season, there is a new virus on the loose: H1N1. Well, it is not that new. It has mutated in a way that has become a little more difficult to control in its spread. While Congress debates health care reform becoming universal as a panacea for escalating health [...]

  • Part II of Prop 13: Political Markets

    October 5th, 2009

    In Part II of my take on Proposition 13, I will discuss the market for politics in Sacramento and why the 2/3 vote on new taxes and the majority vote on expenditures leads to problems. The basic issue is simple. When legislators need to move expenditures forward with a majority vote, it only takes one [...]

  • Prop 13 Repeal: Part I on taxes

    September 22nd, 2009

    Professor Robert Eyler writes the first part of a two-part series about Proposition 13 and its potential repeal.

  • Part 2 in Professor Visser’s discussion of incentives

    July 27th, 2009

    Part 2 in Professor Visser’s discussion of incentives, this time about our state government.

  • Incentives Matter: Mortgages, Banks, and Financial Meltdown

    July 20th, 2009

    Michael Visser, an economist at Sonoma State University, provides a discussion of incentives in our financial markets.

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