More Tax Breaks for the Rich?
I was talking with some folks at LSU who were working on a proposal to exempt textbooks from sales taxes in Baton Rouge, currently a whopping 9%. I’m all in favor of cutting sales taxes, which are generally not progressive; but textbooks are a luxury good—college education is disproportionately undertaken by the offspring of higher-income families. Why subsidize higher-income college students still further? Read More »
Make 10? Make 11? Let's Call the Whole Thing Off
Can you decipher this first grader’s math assignment? BoingBoing’s Mark Frauenfelder wants a second opinion. Read More »
How to Streamline Drug Research?
We all know that information is valuable, and that more information is generally better than less.
But in the realm of pharmaceutical research (as in others, to be sure), there’s a troubling paradox: while successes are widely publicized, and while the results of clinical trials are usually published, the research from projects that fail before that stage is usually kept hidden. Read More »
Freak Week on The Takeaway
Dubner will be appearing on the public-radio show The Takeaway every morning this week to talk about SuperFreakonomics. His past appearances can be found here, including this one about kidney donation and this one about climate change. Read More »
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