Trump vs. Harley-and the World
In its own words, the Trump Organization is “the world’s only global luxury real estate super-brand,” with five- and six-star...
Kansas City’s Airport: A Monument to Political Ego
Kansas City has an effective and efficient airport. There is no reason why Kansas City cannot continue to meet the...
SLU and Mizzou Economists Weigh in on Aerotropolis Jobs Estimates
Saint Louis University professor Dr. Jack Strauss and University of Missouri-Columbia professor Dr. Joe Haslag (also Show-Me’s chief economist) have at...
Externalities of Private School Competition
I am writing this post from India, where I have been vacationing the past few weeks. One of the most...
Policymakers in Missouri Have a Lot to Learn From Taiwan
[Note: This blog entry was written on Friday. The governor’s trip to Taiwan has since been canceled.] Later this month,...
Legislators Should Listen to Economists, History
“If all the economists in the world were laid end to end,” George Bernard Shaw famously wrote, “they wouldn’t reach...
Thanks to Government Incentives, It May Be Cheaper to Locate a Service Center in Columbia, Mo., than in India
The Columbia Missourian recently published a summary of the $31 million incentive package that the state and local governments are...
Incentives for Teachers: Empirical Evidence
Alex Tabarrok is blogging about merit pay for teachers. An experiment in India found that incentives for teachers have a...
Things I Like About the BASIS Charter Schools
I wrote in my last post about BASIS that the schools haven’t yet demonstrated the potential to scale up to...
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