7 Posts Tagged "Ground rules"
Using Smart Economics at the Garrison Institute
Posted on March 12th 2012 |
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What economics has to say about saving the world. A whole lot.
For Young College Students, The Case for Economics
Posted on January 3rd 2012 |
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Five years ago, top Harvard College graduates flooded Wall Street. They were small cogs in a race-car engine, except the car was speeding over a cliff. It’s no wonder that today’s graduates are reconsidering their career choices.
They should start with economics.
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Occupy email
Posted on November 18th 2011 |
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The average time taken to respond to an email is greater, in aggregate, than the time it took to create.
Email is too cheap to send. That, in a nutshell, is why we are all drowning in it. It costs you nothing to add one more person as a recipient. ...
Cold, Hard Economics
Posted on November 10th 2011 |
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We can’t solve global warming because I fucking changed lightbulbs in my house. It’s because of something collective.
That quote, by the way, is courtesy of Barack Obama. More in my
Rational to a fault
Posted on November 1st 2011 |
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Here’s the classic economic view of your car-purchasing behavior: You walk into a dealership, choose a car based on brand, color, cylinders, looks and general feel and then start comparing prices among different options. And you don’t just look at how much you pay to ...
Koch-funded study confirms sad state of affairs
Posted on October 24th 2011 |
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It’s amazing that this is even news, but here goes: A new study commissioned in the wake of “Climategate” that wasn’t confirmed that, yes, the globe is indeed warming, and that the vast majority of climate s ...
A second-best world
Posted on October 21st 2011 |
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We don’t live in a perfect world. When gas taxes are out and all we have are fuel economy standards, that’s a second-best solution to tackling emissions from driving. When carbon taxes are out and all we have is political hot air, that’s far from first-best, too.
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