A short link roundup shows the same incentive‑focused (public‑choice) explanation applied to Social Security, climate policy, childcare regulation, and business relocation. Seeing these topics through one frame reveals common policy dynamics: regulatory supply constraints, demand subsidies, and political incentives that favor particular forms of intervention.
— If commentators and policymakers adopt this unifying frame, it shifts evaluation from sectoral technocratic fixes to incentive and institutional reform across many policy areas.
Arnold Kling
2026.10.19
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The article links Andrew Biggs’ Social Security fiscal projections, David Friedman’s public‑choice take on climate politics, Moses Sternstein’s business‑flight examples in Europe, and Vance Ginn’s childcare regulation summary as exemplars.
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