Asteroid hunters want to launch private telescope | khou.com Houston

http://www.khou.com/news/national/160663285.html


Washington, DC’s Capital Bikeshare: Tax $$$ for Rich, Educated, White Riders

http://m.reason.com/26821/show/b516d72e48b82d9c48087d10727f358b/?


Reason Foundation – Reinventing Libraries in Osceola County, Florida: Partnering with the Private Sector to Create Standards of Excellence

http://reason.org/news/show/reinventing-libraries-in-osceola-co


Hired Gun

http://papers.nber.org/papers/w17032#fromrss

http://papers.nber.org/papers/w17033#fromrss


The Value of Secure Property Rights: Evidence from Global Fisheries

http://papers.nber.org/papers/w17019#fromrss


Influenza Vaccination in Healthy Working Adults in Russia: Observational Study of Effectiveness and Return on Investment for the Employer

http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/adis/ahe/2011/00000009/00000002/art00004


Rewriting the book on libraries

http://www.adamsmith.org/blog/media-and-culture/rewriting-the-book-on-libraries/

 


Who Discovers New Drugs?

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Who Discovers New Drugs?

 


Costly Holes in the Ground

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Costly Holes in the Ground

http://www.danieljosephsmith.com


The Development of Municipal Fire Departments in the United States*

http://mises.org/journals/jls/3_3/3_3_6.pdf

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Public Goods and the Theory of Government

http://www.cato.org/pubs/journal/cj1n2/cj1n2-12.pdf


Willingness to Pay for Public Goods

“In a choice experiment study, willingness to pay for a public good estimated from hypothetical choices was three times as large as willingness to pay estimated from choices requiring actual payment. This hypothetical bias was related to the stated level of certainty of respondents. We develop protocols to measure respondent certainty in the context of a choice experiment, and to calibrate hypothetical choices using these certainty measures. While both the measurement of respondent certainty and the use of certainty measures to calibrate responses arecomplicated by the multiple-choice nature of choice experiments,calibration successfully mitigated hypothetical bias in this application.”

http://www.env-econ.net/2010/03/a-paper-ive-been-waiting-for.html


Ostracism and the provision of a public good: experimental evidence

“We analyze the effects of ostracism on cooperation in a linear public good experiment with fixed partner design. Our results show that introducing ostracism increases contribution levels significantly except in first and last periods. Despite reductions in group size due to ostracism, the net effect on earnings is positive. This effect is in contrast to most alternative mechanisms aimed at increasing cooperation rates studied in the literature on public good experiments.”

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6V8F-4XRYT2K-1&_user=10&_coverDate=03/31/2010&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=d8c800a8f2c08329091f3d30b7dc6581


Stossel On Private Roads

http://marketurbanism.com/2009/03/16/2020-segment-on-private-roads-some-things-to-ponder-while-in-traffic/


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