Alex Tabarrok
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Alex Tabarrok is a Canadian-American economist, born on 11 November 1966.
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6 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
- Born: 11 November 1966 (opens wiqqi.app)
- Role: Professor, George Mason University; Bartley J. Madden Chair in Economics, Mercatus Center (opens wiqqi.app)
- Writing: Marginal Revolution blog, with Tyler Cowen, from August 2003 (opens wiqqi.app)
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2 channels on ppll (opens ppll.app)
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x.com: @ATabarrok (opens x.com)
“The miracle of economic growth.”
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Papers: ORCID (opens orcid.org)
“The Price of a Cure: Luxturna and the Economic Dilemmas of Precision Medicine”
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x.com: @ATabarrok (opens x.com)
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4 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Corner allocations under price ceilings are a distinct source of cross-market misallocation, separate from Harberger quantity loss and within-market misallocation. (opens korrents.com)
“These corner allocations create a distinct source of cross-market misallocation, separate from the aggregate quantity loss (the Harberger triangle) and from within-market misallocation emphasized in prior work.”
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Feast-or-famine corner outcomes, not modest proportional belt-tightening, are the generic result of price controls. (opens korrents.com)
“This paper shows that feast or famine, not modest belt-tightening, is the generic outcome of price controls.”
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Under binding ceilings, cost-minimizing suppliers drive allocations to corners rather than Harberger or random benchmarks, producing larger losses and discontinuous welfare jumps. (opens korrents.com)
“We show that equilibrium generically occurs at neither the Harberger nor Glaeser-Luttmer benchmark. Cost-minimizing suppliers drive allocations to vertices, not interiors. Corners are not an assumption but an outcome…”
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Corner allocations under price ceilings are a distinct source of cross-market misallocation, separate from Harberger quantity loss and within-market misallocation. (opens korrents.com)
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5 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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Modern Principles of Economics (opens rcmnd.app)
“Modern Principles of Economics is best principles of economics textbook; great videos, clear writing and excellent applications and examples!”
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Enlightenment 2.0 (opens rcmnd.app)
“In my 2015 post discussing Joseph Heath’s excellent book Enlightenment 2.0”
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Energy Transitions in Regulated Markets (opens rcmnd.app)
“Gowrisankaran, Langer and Reguant have an excellent paper, Energy Transitions in Regulated Markets”
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Modern Principles of Economics (opens rcmnd.app)