What Alex Tabarrok thinks about government
Professor of economics at George Mason University and Bartley J. Madden Chair at the Mercatus Center. Co-writes the blog Marginal Revolution and co-authors the textbook Modern Principles of Economics with Tyler Cowen.
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1 dated position, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Alex Tabarrok has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingMisallocation, not the aggregate quantity reduction, is the main welfare cost of price controls.
Their wordsThe quantity reduction is not the main cost of price controls. The misallocation is.
↗Chaos and Misallocation under Price Controls (with 2 co-authors)arxiv.org All 4 from this paper