22 hours ago by David Zetland

This [unedited] guest post is by a student in my EEP100 class ( background post). Please praise/critique/comment on its economic quality and importance to you. Sabine Johnson says: Why is organic produce more expensive than regular (i.e. non-organic) produce? For example, at Safeway a pound of regul ...

Aguanomics - aguanomics.com · Rank: 8,608 · 126 references

2 days ago by Tim Schilling

Finally, here's a very thought-provoking opinion piece from yesterday's edition of The Boston Globe (***UPDATE*** HT to Greg Mankiw.) on how incentives set up to promote one policy can have a negative effect on another, creating negative externalities that have to be accounted for in the process. Un ...

MV=PQ: A Resource of the ... - valuingeconomics.blogspot.com · Rank: 105,603 · 12 references

3 days ago by sfrable

Forbes posted a list of American’s most toxic cities which was compiled using data from the EPA: Most toxic: Atlanta, followed by old favorites Detroit, Houston, Chicago, & Philadelphia Least toxic: Vegas, followed by Sacramento, Riverside, Austin, & Seattle Nice to see that the city I live in conti ...

Pushing Possibilities - bizecon.wordpress.com · 2 references

4 days ago by David Zetland

Cameron Williams* says: Sun Chips has recently begun an advertising campaign in which they promote their use of solar energy to make their product, one implication being that, although Sun Chips may be a bit more expensive, the price is worth it because the consumer is also helping the environment. ...

Aguanomics - aguanomics.com · Rank: 8,608 · 126 references

5 days ago by Pete Eyre

ASHEVILLE, NC - A couple of weeks ago when we were in Portland we had the chance to visit the offices of the Cascade Policy Institute and talk with Todd Wynn, program director of their Climate Change and Energy Policy area. In this video, Todd shares a bit about his background and drops some serious ...

the Motorhome Diaries - motorhomediaries.com · Rank: 18,106 · 93 references

5 days ago by Aaron

I’m officially blogging at the Mercatus Center’s Neighborhood Effects blog. My first post is about Maine’s TABOR bill. At this point, it seems unlikely to pass, although I’ve crossed my fingers and sent in my absentee ballot.

Incessant Dissent - incessantdissent.wordpress.com

14 days ago by lelik

См. externalities.

Бизнес Группа - bizness-gruppa.ru

14 days ago by lelik

См. externalities.

Бизнес Группа - bizness-gruppa.ru

14 days ago by tfnagle

I had the very good fortune to attend President Obama’s clean energy speech at MIT yesterday. I was extremely excited to be in the room, yet left disappointed in the lack of new commitments and jingoistic tone set by President Obama. The theme of the speech was innovation, geared toward the research ...

EcoCiety: Discourse on a ... - ecociety.wordpress.com · 1 reference

14 days ago by Leigh Caldwell

One of the problems we face in economics is that our theoretical solutions do not always work in the real world, because the key assumptions of liquid markets, no transaction costs etc often do not hold. In these cases, we have to spend time working out second-best solutions. But even the second-bes ...

Knowing and Making - knowingandmaking.com · Rank: 44,715 · 44 references