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Eliminating transit fares can transform lives, connect people to jobs, healthcare, and essential services in more equitable ways.
David Phillips (@NotreDame) discusses the impact of free public transportation on mobility, particularly for low-income individuals. Focusing on a study conducted in King County, Washington, Phillips examines how eliminating bus fares doubled transit use, expanding both access and opportunity. However, he also highlights the trade-offs transit agencies face, balancing fare policies with service quality and budget constraints.
Published paper on transit use:
sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166046222000436
Working paper on employment and other outcomes:
github.com/dphill12/Papers-by-David-C-Phillips/blob/main/BroughFreedmanPhillips_Manuscript.pdf
Results for American case study on the project:
catalog.results4america.org/case-studies/subsidized-transit-king-county-wa
Learn more about his work:
sites.google.com/site/davidcphillipseconomics
Eliminating transit fares can transform lives, connect people to jobs, healthcare, and essential services in more equitable ways.
David Phillips (@NotreDame) discusses the impact of free public transportation on mobility, particularly for low-income individuals. Focusing on a study conducted in King County, Washington, Phillips examines how eliminating bus fares doubled transit use, expanding both access and opportunity. However, he also highlights the trade-offs transit agencies face, balancing fare policies with service quality and budget constraints.
Published paper on transit use:
sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166046222000436
Working paper on employment and other outcomes:
github.com/dphill12/Papers-by-David-C-Phillips/blob/main/BroughFreedmanPhillips_Manuscript.pdf
Results for American case study on the project:
catalog.results4america.org/case-studies/subsidized-transit-king-county-wa
Learn more about his work:
sites.google.com/site/davidcphillipseconomics
![Political Economy of Climate Disruption - [ECO]NOMICS Part 2](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/yjC4eVLxo6I/mqdefault.jpg "Political Economy of Climate Disruption - [ECO]NOMICS Part 2
Mainstream economists like to talk about choosing between climate protection and consumption. They often produce studies showing that policy action is too expensive, while climate change itself is not too costly. But a well-functioning climate is the basis for producing goods and services, not an alternative to them.
In part 2 of [ECO]NOMICS, Professor Juliet Shor introduces the political economy approach to climate change, as an alternative to the usual economics. This direction links action and inaction to economic and political interests. Who has interests in continuing to emit greenhouse gases, who is benefiting, and who is bearing the costs? Political economy turns the focus on the companies, countries and people who are disproportionately responsible and have a strong interest in the status quo. Prof. Schor shows how fossil fuel companies have spent vast amounts of money and effort in influencing public opinion and capturing politicians, to forestall government action on climate change. Solving the political economy problem requires new ways of thinking about transcending the interest-based politics that has led to climate inaction.
Part 3 will be available May 11, 2022
Learn more at https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/videos/eco-nomics
Credits: Juliet Schor, Matthew Kulvicki, Nick Alpha, Gonçalo Fonseca, Kurt Semm")
