AllegedWisdom

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by AllegedWisdom 10y ago
In most agencies, economists almost never interact with lobbyists. The lobbyists always aim at senior management, and almost all lobbying takes the form of 'We care about X and we want you to validate that by signalling that you also
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by AllegedWisdom 10y ago
The optimal cutoff would probably have been $20 million rather than the $10 million that was chosen, but that change would have been too much for a lot of people. If I had only presented options from $1M up to $20M, then the group probably
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by AllegedWisdom 10y ago
In many cases (the water standard rule was one of them) the bureaucrats are acting on direct orders from Congress. Congress usually passes those laws demanding regulations to be written as a result of people asking the government to 'd
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by AllegedWisdom 10y ago
Excellent comment. Many people associate 'economist' with politicized talking heads arguing about ideological issues, but that is a tiny fraction of the profession, just like the most politicized tech CEOs are the tiny fraction of
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by AllegedWisdom 10y ago
Regulations will always have costly unintended consequences, and this will never be fully resolved. But the damage can be mitigated and things can be made more efficient by having numerate big-picture thinkers involved early in the process.
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by AllegedWisdom 10y ago
When irrigation water is put directly on produce that will soon be consumed raw, it will transmit pathogens and should be drinking-water standard. This was not disputed, and was in the final rule. However, if the water will go through manur
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by AllegedWisdom 10y ago
I definitely understand that centralized bureaucracy and decision making can be very harmful. I also know that the lack of centralized bureaucracy and decision making can also be very harmful, for example by killing tens of thousands of peo