Robert Tollison and operationalizing public choice

In this tribute to Robert Tollison, I will outline his contributions to the development of public choice. I focus on Tollison’s work on rent-seeking, the political economy of reform, and the rules level of analysis in sports economics. Throughout his career, Tollison brilliantly figured out ways to take insights from price theory and public choice theory and operationalize them using multiple methods of empirical analysis, including historical interpretation and statistical testing.     

A Different Carbon Tax: The Sustainable Green Tariff

Two heated current political arguments focus on carbon taxes and tariffs. This essay will develop an argument for linking carbon emissions with tariffs, through a tax on goods entering a country based on the method of transport and distance traveled, rather than based on the country of origin or category of the product. The result would be to encourage more sustainable local production, to reduce currently externalized costs of carbon emissions, to generate new tax revenues to fund reductions in regressive social insurance taxes, and to provide benefits for those adversely affected by carbon emissions.     

Appeal rate and caseload: evidence from civil litigation in Korea

Courts of modern democratic societies have generally implemented appeal procedures to correct potential errors in ruling. However, considering the time and effort that both litigants spend, availability of an appeal cannot be better than reaching the correct judgment in the original case. This difficulty raises the policy issue of how to reduce the rate of appeals and improve welfare of litigants. In this paper, we assert that lower caseloads allow judges to expend more time and effort on each case, contributing to lower appeal rates. Analysis of court-level data from Korea corroborates our inference.     

Safe and Sound

正China is working to enhance the earthquake resistance of rural homes On October 21,Nurman Guli,a woman from Bacu County,northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region,got married in her new house.Everyone in the neighborhood was invited to celebrate.This is a community with rows of newly     

GOLDEN WATERWAY

正China to explore new methods to make the Yangtze River Economic Belt vibrant and green The Yangtze River,winding through 11 provinces,autonomous regions and municipalities from east to west,is China’s golden waterway.Protecting and improving the environment along the major waterway while developing the economy has been one of the top priorities of China.     

Fighting HIV+’s Negative Stigma

Patients with HIV face an uphill battle to receive regular medical services Misfortune never comes singly. It is especially true for Xiaofeng, a 25-year-old HIV-positive sufferer of lung cancer in north China’s Tianjin. Worse still, his request for lung surgery was denied by a local cancer hospital because he was found to be HIV-positive. Xiaofeng’s only hope to receive treatment was to falsify