Alexander Tabarrok

Alexander Tabarrok is a Canadian-American economist and co-author of the economics blog, Marginal Revolution. He is a professor at George Mason University and a fellow at the school’s Mercatus Center. In addition, Tabarrok is director of research for the Oakland, California based think tank the Independent Institute.

Articles

Subjective Value Theory: A Reformulation

07/20/2005 Austrian Economics Newsletter Alexander Tabarrok

Volume 12, Number 1 (Fall 1990) The method of Austrian economics stresses the use of words and concepts rather than mathematics, but, unlike mathematics, words and concepts change their meaning...

The Preferred Tax Type: Comment on Herbener

07/20/2005 Review of Austrian Economics Alexander Tabarrok

A standard theorem in neoclassical public finance holds that income taxes are preferred to equal revenue excise taxes. Herbener (1988) rejects this theorem because the proof is (a) based upon...

Death Taxes: Theory, History, and Ethics

07/20/2005 Essays in Political Economy Alexander Tabarrok

So long as men are mortal, wealth must be transferred between the generations and so long as parents care for their children, the dominant means of doing so will be through family inheritance. The...

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Media

17. Alex Tabarrok on Tolerant Rothbardians, the Market for Kidneys, and Potential Security Flaws in Bitcoin

02/19/2019 Robert P. Murphy Alexander Tabarrok

Bob interviews Alex Tabarrok, professor of economics at George Mason University and co-author of the popular Marginal Revolution blog.

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