
Economic Experiments in Extremism
The Economic History Podcast
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Is There a Pork Barrel Spending Problem?
In the 19 thirties in many would you like to just briefly talk about what that paper found in terms of voting behavior? Yes, but let me first give you the elevator pitch. So everybody thinks the pork barrel spending is a fact rit that politicians use on visible intestructure projects,. No journalists will ever put a question marked behind us. Then you look at the academic evie, and it's remarkably thin. And why's that? Well, the problem is, typically, imagine that you're the president and you have to decide where to build a bridge. Where yu' going to put it in joe's district, because he's at 50 and he needs the support
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