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How the unique culture of the Israeli military impacts its innovation

February 25, 2022 Eric Lofgren 0

Russ Roberts: You and I both now live in a country, Israel, that has a Socialist past, a very strong Socialist past, where the general […]

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Important decisions are not made the way economic textbooks teach us

October 5, 2020 Eric Lofgren 0

Here’s a nice exchange between Agnes Callard and Russ Roberts on EconTalk. Remember — the defense resource allocation process, the PPBE, was explicitly created on […]

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What the DoD doesn’t understand about markets

August 25, 2020 Eric Lofgren 0

Most people in economics think of economics as being a largely positive, scientific approach to studying. More than that: It is a set of questions […]

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