I doubt he was the first person to notice it, but Tyler Cowen has made this point more than once. I think it’s also mentioned in Discover Your Inner Economist. Basically, it’s trivially easy to find poor and deserving people who aren’t begging, so why bid up the wages of beggars?
I doubt he was the first person to notice it, but Tyler Cowen has made this point more than once. I think it’s also mentioned in Discover Your Inner Economist. Basically, it’s trivially easy to find poor and deserving people who aren’t begging, so why bid up the wages of beggars?