Pure Pedantry (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
Bryan Caplan writing in the NYTimes suggests that in spite of making no economic sense whatsoever the gas tax holiday might be a good idea as a symbolic gesture: The first is that the tax holiday is a relatively cheap symbolic gesture that makes truly bad policies less likely. The main causes of high gas prices are probably factors beyond our control, like rapid growth in China and India and low real...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
Most economists oppose the Clinton-McCain gas tax holiday. Nevertheless, I think it's an idea worth supporting.
Cafe Hayek (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
Think the proposed gas-tax holiday is wacky idea? My GMU colleague -- and EconLog's -- Bryan Caplan gives you good reason to think again.
Economist's View (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Jeff Frankel reacts to Bryan Caplan's op-ed on the gas-tax holiday: How Far the NYT had to go to Find an Economist to Support the Gas Tax Holiday, by Jeff Frankel: Economists frequently complain that even when 98% of the...
The Right Coast (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Bryan Caplan, whose book The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies I strongly recommend, defends the McCain proposal in the New York Times on seemingly perverse grounds. Caplan agrees that the gas tax will not lower...
Free Exchange (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Economists are of two minds on Mr McCain
