Public choice

Uh, he was last here in March of twenty twenty-six talking about the UNC Duke basketball experience and how Duke allocates tickets for that game.

Our topic for today is a set of essays that Mike has written, uh, and we're going to focus on the one on public choice, which is a technical term that we, uh, hope to explore in our conversation today.

Mike, welcome back to EconTalk.

Um, I-- the fifty-second episode, I want to assure you that I feel all the honor that the situation merits.

I, I had no idea.

Uh, well, I'm grateful to you for all the times and knowledge that you've given the program.

So let's, um, let's talk about public choice.

It is a, uh, I would s-- it, it's a sub-discipline of economics.