Our Debt-Capacity Fishery

Our Debt-Capacity Fishery

Environmental economists have a useful framework to analyze limited but renewable resources. It is called maximum sustainable yield. For a fishery, it measures the number of fish that can be harvested each year without impairing the future viability of the…

The Economics of Immigration

The Economics of Immigration

“I pity the poor immigrant  Who wishes he would’ve stayed home  Who uses all his power to do evil  But in the end is always left so alone.”            – Bob Dylan 1967 The immigration debate…