Externalities

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• Life expectancy, quality of the environment, and mutliple equilibria

  
  Economic Logic — Authority: 124
  The recent debacle in Copenhagen over a climate change treaty has highleghted a large rift between developing and developed economies over what should be done and how. The way it was presented, the issue was about a right to develop like the currently rich ones did, by polluting your way to wealth. Thus, the rich ...
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• GDP = Nature’s externalities

  
  Bleeding edge blog — Authority: 135
  How much is Nature worth?  Not a lot, according to most economists’ calculations. You know they treat it as an externality.   Even the Stern report did so… Well in it’s early stages at least. An externality is something the economists don’t take into account because it’s free. All the rest of ...
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• Stealing as Charity: The Distributional Analysis is Interesting but Incorrect

  
  The Perfect Substitute — Authority: 128
  From CNN : Tim Jones, parish priest of St Lawrence and St Hilda, told his congregation in York, northern England: "My advice, as a Christian priest, is to shoplift." [...] He continued: "I do not offer such advice because I think that stealing is a good thing, or because I think it is harmless, for it is neither. ...
  2 weeks ago

• The £4bn tax loss from counterfeit ciggies

  
  Economics — Authority: 137
  A good investigation here into the rapid growth of the counterfeit cigarette market in the UK… The cost in lost tax revenues is estimated at around £4bn per year - leaving aside the significant health costs arising from the consumption of illegal tobacco.
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• Externalities of effective road safety schemes

  
  Economics — Authority: 137
  Sometimes the simplest interventions have the greatest effects. Cutting average road speeds for vehicles in built up areas is the surest way to reduce the number of deaths and serious injuries for pedestrians and this latest report highlights the impact that 20mph limits in London have had on the number of ...
  4 weeks ago

• Externalities of effective road saftey schemes

  
  Economics — Authority: 137
  Sometimes the simplest interventions have the greatest effects. Cutting average road speeds for vehicles in built up areas is the surest way to reduce the number of deaths and serious injuries for pedestrians and this latest report highlights the impact that 20mph limits in London have had on the number of ...
  4 weeks ago

• Yisroel Pensack: Tax-Increment Financing for Transit Vetoed by Gov. Schwarzenegger

  
  Refinance Home Mortgages — Authority: 121
  California Assembly Bill 338 (TIF for TOD) was vetoed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Oct. 11. "This bill would eliminate voter approval requirements for the creation of an Infrastructure Financing District (IFD) and the issuance of tax allocation bonds by an IFD," the governor said in his veto message . Read ...
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• There’s No Such Thing as Free…

  
  MV=PQ: A Resource for Economic Educators — Authority: 130
  With many of us looking to Copenhagen (swell to "Wonderful Wonderful Copenhagen" in Hans Christian Anderson , starring Danny Kaye), its fitting that we provide some links to a pair of climate-related stories. Both focus on the cost of a likely plan to reduce green-house gas emissions. The first is from The ...
  4 weeks ago

• A Little Pigou Is A Dangerous Thing, Part 1

  
  ThinkMarkets — Authority: 552
  by Mario Rizzo   A little Learning is a dang’rous Thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring: There shallow Draughts intoxicate the Brain, And drinking largely sobers us again.   Alexander Pope   Sometimes in the course of scientific development an idea gets introduced with various qualifications ...
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• A Lucid Summary of the Climategate Aftermath

  
  Incentives Matter — Authority: 121
  Heres Mike Hammock on a lucid summary of the Climategate aftermath (HT Division of Labours Carden , italics are mine): I’m certainly not qualified, and ideologues won’t resolve the issue. I expect this to play out in the literature as it would in any other science. I will still defer to the collected expertise ...
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