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Becker and respectively Posner, on tax evasion. Why is tax compliance higher than one would expect (with a reservation here: it also follows from Posner’s argument than in fact tax evasion isn’t necessarily lower than rationally expected…) and is that mainly due to the rational fear of punishment or to the taxpayers’ feeling of moral duty/ fairness etc?
Category: fun
One hour conversation with Richard Freeman (on YouTube)
Shortly after having posted a link to an IZA clip about Richard Freeman among a recent ‘econlinks’ post, I discovered, via Greg Mankiw, this other link to a very recent (October 31st) whole one hour interview with Freeman on YouTube, within the “Conversations with History” series, having Harry Kreisler as host.
→ Read more Econlinks for 23-11-’07
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Remember my post about names in Denmark? At that time I could not find which were really the most frequently used first names. But Denmark Statistics even has those available. So “Jens” (male) and “Anne” (female) are the most common first names in Denmark, to date.
Econlinks for 07-11-’07
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“Cheap talk” incentives for better grades. You never know, it might actually work; let’s see if Bloomberg actually implements this.
Econlinks for 01-11-’07
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The RePEc blog appeared recently. Looks interesting at first sight, though some ideas in very recent posts do not appear so sensible (such as this one).
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100% Gary Becker: an entry by Steven Levitt, with further links.