Archive - Model Thinking

An outlandish proposal to solve the housing crisis

Apr 1 •

Duncan McClements

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Jason Hausenloy

January 2024

Insuring Progress

Britain is stuck. How can we get it moving again?

Jan 7 •

Duncan McClements

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Jason Hausenloy

July 2023

Assessing altruism

Is intergenerational altruism 0.09?

Jul 9, 2023 •

Duncan McClements

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Jason Hausenloy

March 2023

Paying For Peace

How much would Russian soldiers need to be paid to defect if offered EU citizenship?

Mar 26, 2023 •

Duncan McClements

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Jason Hausenloy

February 2023

Prisons compared

How do prison sentences compare with alternatives that are neither incapacitative nor criminogenic at different costs of crime?

Feb 12, 2023 •

Duncan McClements

January 2023

A model of the levels of Western support needed for a Ukrainian victory by level of Russian mobilisation, under a Cobb-Douglas production function

Jan 22, 2023 •

Duncan McClements

December 2022

Innovative externality inclusion

If the current level of regulation is privately optimal, how does inclusion of innovation externalities change the optimal global level?

Dec 31, 2022 •

Duncan McClements

Tsunami invariant

How does inclusion of remittances, endogenous capital stocks and immigrant effects on productivity affect the path of the population under open borders?

Dec 18, 2022 •

Duncan McClements

Advantage diminishing

How important is comparative advantage in determining the marginal value of additional population?

Dec 4, 2022 •

Duncan McClements

November 2022

How long should the time between politician's elections be?

Nov 20, 2022 •

Duncan McClements

A benefit greater yet

How does endogenising the population affect the marginal technological externalities of one additional birth?

Nov 6, 2022 •

Duncan McClements

October 2022

A utopia suffocated by smog?

How would open borders affect climate change?

Oct 9, 2022 •

Duncan McClements

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