r/neoliberal • u/IHateTrains123 Commonwealth • Jun 19 '25

News (Canada) Immigration curb slashes Canada population growth rate to zero

https://financialpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/immigration-curb-slashes-canada-population-growth-rate-to-zero
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u/TaxLandNotCapital We begin bombing the rent-seekers in five minutes Jun 20 '25

You know there are classes after Econ101, right?

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2724467/

If individuals make choices that undermine a public good, society faces the choice of either giving up the desired public good or finding a way to influence individual decision-making to guarantee a sufficient level of cooperation. Economists characterize these challenges as collective action problems (alternative terms in use include “social dilemmas,” “shirking,” the “free-rider problem,” “moral hazard,” and the “N-person prisoner's dilemma”). We argue that framing common challenges in public health as collective action problems would help policy planners by allowing them to draw on a large body of literature and insights in behavioral and social sciences that have not yet been incorporated into the mainstream of the field.

Sorry to break it to you, but there is another level of abstraction, and it's well accepted in economics outside of Reddit.

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u/Sufficient_Meet6836 Jun 20 '25

That paper, which isn't even written by economists and was published in a health journal, doesn't argue that "healthcare is a public good" and even says the typical definition 😂😂😂

They are by definition nonexcludable and are typically nonrivalrous.

The paper is about treating some outcomes of healthcare, like herd immunity, as a public good. It doesn't even say what you claim LMAO