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Ryan A. Bourne

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in Chatham, The United Kingdom

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Ryan Bourne occupies the R. Evan Scharf Chair for the Public Understanding of Economics at the Cato Institute and is a weekly columnist for The Times (UK). He has written on a number of economic issues, including fiscal policy, inequality, price and wage controls, and infrastructure spending.

His is the editor of a forthcoming multi-authored volume titled The War on Prices: How Popular Misconceptions about Inflation, Prices, and Value Create Bad Policy.

His first solo book, Economics In One Virus: An Introduction to Economic Reasoning through COVID-19, will be released in early 2021. He has contributed to numerous other books too, including: Flaws and Ceilings: Price Controls and the Damage they Cause; Taxation, Spending, and Economic Growth; ...more

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Unemployment Insurance Waste and Fraud

Unemployment Insurance has been the hot economic policy debate topic for a while. This week’s jobs figures again showed labor supply failing to keep up with a soaring demand for workers as the economy reopens, leading to sharply rising wages in pandemic‐hit sectors and the highest unfilled opening rate among small businesses ever. As I’ve written before, there is good indicative evidence that the Read more of this blog post »

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Precious Little Sleep: The Complete Baby Sleep Guide for Modern Parents

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After the Spike: Population, Progress, and the Case for People

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“Voters tend to reward those who react to crises by dishing out relief, in other words, but do not reward those who prevent the worst outcomes from crises by preparing.”
― Ryan A. Bourne, Economics in One Virus: An Introduction to Economic Reasoning through COVID-19

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“in policy there are no solutions, only tradeoffs.”
― Ryan A. Bourne, Economics in One Virus: An Introduction to Economic Reasoning through COVID-19

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“A low-risk person deliberately trying to contract the disease would have risked spreading it to other people who would not have sought infection. If lots of people quickly changed their behavior to win their freedom, then we would have risked more transmission of the virus and possibly the eventual congestion externalities in hospitals discussed earlier too.”
― Ryan A. Bourne, Economics in One Virus: An Introduction to Economic Reasoning through COVID-19

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