Mechanism Design for Public Schools
If conservative counties are going to use the bond market to fund mechanism design studies for vouchers, then public school systems need to work on mechanism design to keep public…
Total Factor Productivity ESG Bonds
Long term bonds have a higher risk of default if total factor productivity trends down. So long term bonds would actually be helped if part of the money was used…
School vouchers and for profit schools
For profit schools want to maximize profits. In the short-run this may come from passing all students or graduating them all. This way parents looking to get their child through…
Draft and preliminary position list
Abstract A focus on math and science education to raise total factor productivity and wages and securestate and local pensions, military and other federal pensions, Social Security, Medicare,and maintain stock…
Total Factor Productivity and Democrat electability
The Golden Age of Productivity ended in the US in 1973. Republicans took control of the Senate in 1980. Republicans won the House in 1994. Before the end of the…
Why I am a Democrat
I joined the Democratic Party because of the importance of the guarantees that Democrats make to people. These includes Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Medicaid Expansion, the Health Market Place, and…
Total Factor Productivity and Milton Friedman’s Pencil
In his famous book and TV series, Milton Friedman told the parable of the pencil. He told us it took the cooperation of many people who didn't know each other.…
Neo-Brandeisian and Chicago too
I am both a neo-Brandeisian and a product of the Chicago School of Economics. At the recent American Enterprise Institute session on antitrust, one of the older speakers asked me…
Introduction
I am running for Fairfax County School Board.