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Garett Jones: evaluation

26 Feb 2020 Conversations with Tyler Garett Jones on Democracy (More or Less)

“No, I love it because it creates more natural experiments for economists to study.”

— Garett Jones

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Garett Jones
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evaluation
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26 Feb 2020
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Conversations with Tyler

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…It seems that more decisions, in the US at least, are being made at the city level — minimum wage hikes, climate change policy. Apart from whatever you think of those particular decisions, are you, in general, unhappy about more decisions being made at the city level? No, I love it because it creates more natural experiments for economists to study. But that seems at variance with what you just said about wanting the externalities internalized and increasing returns being so important.…

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