Last updated on June 8, 2014
I recently re-read Benjamin Franklin’s autobiography, and I was struck at just how many coordination failures he resolved in his lifetime in order to provide public goods. Off the top of my head, he founded a public library, he founded a university, he created a public service in charge of extinguishing fires, organized street cleaning and garbage collection, etc. all in his native Philadelphia.
Reading about Franklin’s life and public service reminded me that he had been my initial inspiration for my “Contributing to Public Goods” series of posts. And since some of you might have missed most of those posts, I thought I would put them all in one place for now:
- Regression and Causality for Dummies.
- How to Do Well in Your Economics Classes.
- My 20 Rules for Refereeing.
- How Should a PhD Student Be?, Part 1 (Don’t look for Part 2, I never got around to writing it.)
- 22 Tips for Conference and Seminar Presentations.
- The Trading Game: A Simple, Easy to Run In-Class Experiment.
- What I’ve Learned from a Year of Blogging: Advice for Would-Be Bloggers.