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Rick Morton

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What if we just gave people money? The economics of time and freedom

The idea that there’s only so much money to go around makes a bastard kind of sense to the poor. If impossible decisions abound in their lives, it must be true of governments, too. Certainly, that’s how federal budgets are framed. But beyond impressionism, we know the household budget is not analogous to state budgets in any meaningful way.

Society & Inequality
What if we just gave people money? The economics of time and freedom