Tagged: Timothy Taylor

Natural disasters: insurance costs vs. deaths - The Dismal Science

Paul Walker • Apr 29, 2015 •

• general,
• Timothy Taylor

In a posting with the above title at the Conversable Economist blog Timothy Taylor writes,The natural disasters that cause the highest levels of insurance losses are only rarely the same as the natural disasters that cause the greatest loss of life. Wh... Read More

Selling a kidney: would the option necessarily be beneficial? - The Dismal Science

Paul Walker • Mar 25, 2014 •

• organ sales,
• Timothy Taylor

This is the question asked by Timothy Taylor at this blog Conversable Economist. Important here is the claim, popular among economists, that offering people an additional option--in this case to sell a kidney--must make the people better off, because they don't need to choose the option, but if they wish to do so, they can. That … Read More