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Cory Doctorow / 1:14 pm Mon, Jan 7, 2019

Americans' happiness is correlated with spending on public goods

Baylor University political scientist Patrick Flavin's forthcoming study in Social Science Research finds that people in states with higher public goods spending (on "libraries, parks, highways, natural resources and police protection") report higher levels of happiness. Read the rest

Cory Doctorow / 12:36 pm Tue, Apr 10, 2018

Public goods are REALLY good: thousands of years later, the Roman roads are still paying dividends

Social scientists often promote the value of public provision of infrastructure as a sound, long-term investment in development and prosperity, pushing back against the neoliberal tendency to abandon public goods in favor of private development. Read the rest