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Opus 1, Second movement: On taxation

…goal. Mr. Avi-Yonah sets up his second phase of discussion by quoting Does Atlas Shrug editor Mr. Slemrod: “ [h]ow much and how to tax high-income individuals are questions at…

Austan Goolsbee, Obama’s Econ Man

…book: Does Atlas Shrug? The Economic Consequences of Taxing the Rich. Edited by Joel B. Slemrod which is a collection of papers presented at an October, 1997 conference in Michigan…

Emerging hotspots

…Center for Spatial Data Science at the University of Chicago, which recently released a U.S. COVID-19 Atlas, providing county-level data on COVID-19 cases to help locate emerging hotspots for the…

The COVID funding fiasco

…strategy pushed by Scott Atlas and the Great Barrington Declaration crew.  And all these ideas were percolating in right-wing think tanks before they were picked up by Fox etc. The…