Epidemic disease and the state: Is there a tradeoff between public health and liberty? [0.03%]
传染病与国家：公共卫生和自由可以兼得吗？
Mark Koyama
Mark Koyama
This paper examines the political economy of epidemic disease. First, it outlines the incentive and information problems facing policymakers in responding to a new epidemic. Second, it considers the existence of a tradeoff between public he...
Giray Gozgor
Giray Gozgor
Economic interests are assumed to be the leading driver of political preferences, and various empirical studies have examined how economic conditions affect political views and voting behavior. Meanwhile, populism is on the rise in European...
Roger Koppl
Roger Koppl
In a modern democracy, a public health system includes mechanisms for the provision of expert scientific advice to elected officials. The decisions of elected officials generally will be degraded by expert failure, that is, the provision of...
Martin Rode
Martin Rode
The sport of surfing is best enjoyed with one rider on one wave, but crowding makes that optimal assignment increasingly hard to attain. This study examines the phenomenon of surf localism, whereby competitors are excluded from waves by int...
Mark Pennington
Mark Pennington
This paper draws on the work of Michel Foucault and Friedrich Hayek to understand threats to personal and enterprise freedom, arising from public health governance. Whereas public choice theory examines the incentives these institutions pro...
The incidence and magnitude of the health costs of in-person schooling during the COVID-19 pandemic [0.03%]
新冠肺炎大流行期间实体校园对健康影响的范围和严重程度
Casey B Mulligan
Casey B Mulligan
The health costs of in-person schooling during the pandemic, if any, fall primarily on the families of students, largely owing to the fact that students significantly outnumber teachers. Data from North Carolina, Wisconsin, Australia, Engla...
Christian Bjørnskov,Stefan Voigt
Christian Bjørnskov
Nine out of 10 constitutions contain explicit emergency provisions, intended to help governments cope with extraordinary events that endanger many people or the existence of the state. We ask two questions: (1) does the constitutionalizatio...
Roger D Congleton
Roger D Congleton
In the ordinary course of life, choices vary with age and other factors because one's opportunities vary with one's circumstances. Thus, investments in and expenditures on healthcare (and most other things) vary with age and a variety of ot...
What is public health? public goods, publicized goods, and the conversion problem [0.03%]
什么是公共卫生？公共物品、宣传商品和转化问题
Jonathan Anomaly
Jonathan Anomaly
Public health programs began as an attempt to fight infectious diseases that are difficult to address without collective action. But the concept and practice of public health has ballooned to encompass an expanding list of controversial pub...
Peter T Leeson,Henry A Thompson
Peter T Leeson
Public choice scholars have attended only modestly to issues in public health. We expect that to change rapidly given the Covid-19 pandemic. The time therefore is ripe for taking stock of public-choice relevant scholarship that addresses is...