Vincent Geloso
Senior Fellow
Vincent Geloso, senior fellow at AIER, is an assistant professor of economics at George Mason University. He obtained a PhD in Economic History from the London School of Economics.
Follow him on Twitter @VincentGeloso
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Letting Chinese Nationals Buy Real Estate is a Human Rights Issue
“The inability to seize some of the wealth of a small minority of Chinese people makes the world a slightly better place than it otherwise would be.” Vincent Geloso
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Three Errors Paul Ehrlich Keeps Making
“In Ehrlich’s worldview, humanity only transgresses and can only cause harm. In Simon’s view, humanity takes primacy and the sources of its enrichment also repair many harms done to the environment, and eventually allows improvements.” ~ Vincent Geloso
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Economic Freedom Matters for Intergenerational Income Mobility
“The underappreciated role of economic freedom and institutions in the determination of intergenerational income mobility is probably one of the most problematic omissions of the literature on income mobility. ” ~ Vincent Geloso
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Canadian Fiscal Lessons for Britain’s Fiscal Woes
“The Canadian experience suggests that it is entirely possible to enact the spending cuts that many claim are necessary to balance the announced tax cuts in Britain.” ~ Vincent Geloso
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An Image Worth 10,000 Words: A Review of Superabundance
“Pooley and Tupy find that every one-percent increase in population corresponds to a roughly one-percent decrease in the time-price. This formulation is elegantly simple and conveys the crucial point that population growth is good.” ~ Vincent Geloso
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There Is No Such Thing As Wage-Driven Inflation
“Friedman’s pouncing on Heller has, unfortunately, had no effect on American journalists. News shows and economic commentators still repeat variants of the claim made by Heller: Rising wages will contribute to inflation.” ~ Vincent Geloso
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Who Really Cheats the Government?
“The greater enforcement could be regressive. Policymakers and pundits should ponder this possibility before they wrap themselves in the cloth of virtue.” ~ Vincent Geloso
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The Strange Definition of Recession Is the Best We Have
“The reality is that the reason many use the flawed rule is because all other alternatives seem to be worse. As such, politicians and pundits who try to downplay talks of a recession by mentioning the flawed rule may be politically, and not economically inclined.” ~ Vincent Geloso
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A Cooler Assessment of Heatwave Deaths
“Chasing after sensational headlines predicting doom and gloom do us a disservice. It hides the progress we have made historically and prevents us from using this history to guide public discussions.” ~ Vincent Geloso
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The Ripples of Government Intervention
“When someone says ‘what could go wrong’ after proposing a policy intervention, the reply should be ‘a lot that we will only comprehend many years from now.’ The damaging ripples of government intervention may be very far in the future – it does not mean they do not exist.” ~ Vincent Geloso
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Letting Chinese Nationals Buy Real Estate is a Human Rights Issue
“The inability to seize some of the wealth of a small minority of Chinese people makes the world a slightly better place than it otherwise would be.” Vincent Geloso
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Three Errors Paul Ehrlich Keeps Making
“In Ehrlich’s worldview, humanity only transgresses and can only cause harm. In Simon’s view, humanity takes primacy and the sources of its enrichment also repair many harms done to the environment, and eventually allows improvements.” ~ Vincent Geloso
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Economic Freedom Matters for Intergenerational Income Mobility
“The underappreciated role of economic freedom and institutions in the determination of intergenerational income mobility is probably one of the most problematic omissions of the literature on income mobility. ” ~ Vincent Geloso
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Canadian Fiscal Lessons for Britain’s Fiscal Woes
“The Canadian experience suggests that it is entirely possible to enact the spending cuts that many claim are necessary to balance the announced tax cuts in Britain.” ~ Vincent Geloso
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An Image Worth 10,000 Words: A Review of Superabundance
“Pooley and Tupy find that every one-percent increase in population corresponds to a roughly one-percent decrease in the time-price. This formulation is elegantly simple and conveys the crucial point that population growth is good.” ~ Vincent Geloso
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There Is No Such Thing As Wage-Driven Inflation
“Friedman’s pouncing on Heller has, unfortunately, had no effect on American journalists. News shows and economic commentators still repeat variants of the claim made by Heller: Rising wages will contribute to inflation.” ~ Vincent Geloso
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Who Really Cheats the Government?
“The greater enforcement could be regressive. Policymakers and pundits should ponder this possibility before they wrap themselves in the cloth of virtue.” ~ Vincent Geloso
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The Strange Definition of Recession Is the Best We Have
“The reality is that the reason many use the flawed rule is because all other alternatives seem to be worse. As such, politicians and pundits who try to downplay talks of a recession by mentioning the flawed rule may be politically, and not economically inclined.” ~ Vincent Geloso
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A Cooler Assessment of Heatwave Deaths
“Chasing after sensational headlines predicting doom and gloom do us a disservice. It hides the progress we have made historically and prevents us from using this history to guide public discussions.” ~ Vincent Geloso
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•
The Ripples of Government Intervention
“When someone says ‘what could go wrong’ after proposing a policy intervention, the reply should be ‘a lot that we will only comprehend many years from now.’ The damaging ripples of government intervention may be very far in the future – it does not mean they do not exist.” ~ Vincent Geloso