US Government Cheese
Classic example of price controls and government failure in a short and mildly amusing video from NPR
Maximum Prices for Organs
Article from the BBC about the maximum price for human kidneys (ie 0!), including interview with Nobel Laureate Alvin Roth. First time I...
Maximum Prices in Russia
Nice article from the FT about temporary maximum prices on various food in Russia. Has some discussion about why prices got so high, so...
Patents, Prizes and Subsidies (Covid Vaccine research)
A nice video on the incentives to innovate. There is also an application to vaccines here, and they have released a worksheet on patents,...
Moral Hazard increasing Opioid Overdoses
There are loads of economic concepts in this tragic article on how widening access to the 'Lazarus Drug' Naloxone (aka Narcan), a drug...
Sting in the Tail - EA Article
An article from the EA magazine marrying lots of concepts: government failure, unintended consequences, the invisible hand, market...
German Rent Caps
A handy article shared by Yousuf on Rent Caps in Germany. It's focussed more on the legal debate rather than an economic one, but there...
Wasteful Projects
This is an activity based on Ben Chu’s tweet, which you can read ‘unrolled’ here, and which refers to his article in The Independent,...