Clifford Winston's guest appearances

Clifford Winston

EconTalk

Economics Detective Radio

Two Think Minimum

Gret Glyer

Mark Thornton

Jonathan Morduch

Robert Wright

Mike Munger

Jason Brennan

Mark Blyth

Bryan Caplan

Zach Weinersmith

Alex Nowrasteh

Steve Horwitz

Phil Magness

Robin Hanson

Russ Roberts

Nathan Smith

OwlTail

Today's guest is Clifford Winston of the Brookings Institution. We discuss infrastructure, particularly roads and airports, and the incentives faced by their users. Bad incentives create congestion problems that can't be solved by simply throwing more money into infrastructure; you need to fix the incentives! Clifford's work on privatization shows how it could improve incentives and reduce the costs of congestion. Clifford argues that self-driving cars will fix some of the problems created by bad policy. We also discuss the letter grades issued for infrastructure by the American Society of Civil Engineers and what they do and don't tell us about the quality of American infrastructure.

<p>Today's guest is <a href="https://www.brookings.edu/experts/clifford-winston/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Clifford Winston</a> of the Brookings Institution. We discuss infrastructure, particularly roads and airports, and the incentives faced by their users. Bad incentives create congestion problems that can't be solved by simply throwing more money into infrastructure; you need to fix the incentives! Clifford's work on privatization shows how it could improve incentives and reduce the costs of congestion.</p> <p>Clifford argues that self-driving cars will fix some of the problems created by bad policy. We also discuss the letter grades issued for infrastructure by the American Society of Civil Engineers and what they do and don't tell us about the quality of American infrastructure.</p>

Infrastructure, Privatization, and Autonomous Vehicles with Clifford Winston