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Ryan Avent
Personal blog · ryanavent.com/blogeconomicsculture
Ryan Avent's personal blog at ryanavent.com covers economics and culture. Since 2010, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. The last post was in 2017, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Ryan Avent's posts on economics and policy, such as carbon taxes versus other ways to cut emissions, and on housing costs. Commenters cite him as a source rather than praising the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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What Hacker News says?
A carbon tax is more free market, because it just puts a price on the externality and lets the market decide how to respond. Ryan Avent, an economist who focuses on these issues and writes for the, um, Economist, claims that there are no significant differences between the two policies: http://www.ryanavent.com/blog/?p=2011 I haven't heard your explanation before though, so do you have any experts who support this c…
Comment linking /blog/?p=2011
on “People have no bloody idea about saving energy”Submitted The signals workers send by living in a city as a story · 22 points
HN discussionSure. Looking over the list, I'm reminded why I enjoy reading these people. Even when I disagree with them, it is obvious that they love their field. They have a lot of fun with it. There's a kind of joy found in doing something that you love and have devoted your life to that comes out in their writing. As a result, these writers make actual value judgments. They don't write sterile corporate prose guaranteed to of…
Comment linking /blog/
on “Ask HN: Where do you get your unbiased news?”A single person as an individual doesn't choose to live in more expensive houses necessarily, but we as a society do: take a look at the graph attached to Virginia Postrel's "A Tale of Two Houses:" http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200711/housing . Notice how much it costs to build in many of America's most expensive cities. If you take a desirable, urban place to live and slap extensive controls on building height and…
Comment linking /blog
on “The median US house is now 4.9x median income, vs 3.5x in 1975”