05 Feb 2008
Non-budgetary costs of mandates
are always worth keeping in mind:
Don’t assume that mandates are cheaper
Remember Milton Friedman’s arguments that a volunteer army is more cost effective than a draft? That is true even though a volunteer army has a higher budgetary cost. Paul Krugman today does not deny those arguments, but he elides them. When it comes to mandates [...]
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