The Obvious Made Clear

More Admin Competence Issues:

Open the Skies! by Alex Tabarrok

Worry About Things That Matter Where Something Can Be Done

Avoid shiny object syndrome:

Corporate Political Spending and State Tax Policy: Evidence from Citizens United Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.

More Administrative Competence Issues?

Still under-policed and over-imprisoned - Marginal REVOLUTION A new paper, The Injustice of Under-Policing, makes a point that I have been emphasizing for many years, namely, relative to other developed countries the United States is under-policed and over-imprisoned. …the American criminal legal system is characterized by an exceptional kind of under-polici...

The Issue Is Administrative Competence: Part XXI

U.S. Could Have Had Many More Doses of Monkeypox Vaccine This Year The Department of Health and Human Services delayed asking the manufacturer to process the bulk vaccine the government already owned into vials.

The Issue Is Administrative Competence: Science Example

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2022/07/science-as-a-source-of-social-alpha.html

Program ROI Is Not The Only Measure; Sustainable Magnitude Is Key

"The paper shows that adding “psychosocial” elements–“life skills training” or “community sensitization on aspirations and social norms”–to anti-poverty programs might be cost-effective addition to anti-poverty programs and have a high rate of return. But that is not how, in fact, poverty has been substantially reduced in any country, ever."

https://lantpritchett.org/development-work-versus-charity-work/

The Structure Of The Medical System Was A Breakthrough 100+ Years Ago. Not Any More.

Alexandros Marinos (is in Crete) on Twitter “Nowhere in nature do we see an equivalent to the billion-dollar RCT. Facebook engineer Jeff Hammerbacher is famously quoted for having said: "The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads". Maybe they weren't totally wasting their time after all?”

Where's My Flying Car?

Besides administrative competence, "If our society remains suspicious of high energy expenditures, at least part of the reason is a lack of vision of what we might realistically do with superabundant energy."

https://www.thecgo.org/research/energy-superabundance/

This affects poverty, productivity, food supply, transportation and...

The Issue Is Administrative Competence, Part XV

Killing 4 birds with one stone - Econlib Suppose that you wish to achieve the following 4 objectives: 1. Helping Vladimir Putin win the war in Ukraine. 2. Worsening global warming. 3. Worsening the budget deficit. 4. Enriching oil refiners at a time when supply is constrained and they are already earning extraordinary profits. What is the....

All Is Not Doom and Gloom: Fusion Power By 2040?

a.k.a. another element of possible progress on the global warming front, geopolitical front and poverty front

Your Book Review: The Future Of Fusion Energy ...

The Issue Is Administrative Competence. Again.

A reinfection red flag Why a new report is so troubling

The Issue Is Administrative Competence

Opinion | There Has to Be a Better Way to Run the Government Congestion pricing in Manhattan should have happened years ago. The reason it hasn’t is instructive.