externalities

Welcome to the 'externalities' tag page at Technorati. This page features content from the farthest reaches of the Blogosphere that authors have "tagged" with 'externalities'.

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “externalities”

• Expanding Our "Whos Who"

  
  MV=PQ: A Resource for Economic Educators — Authority: 426
  The current economy has given teachers ample opportunity to reference the "big names" in economic theory - Smith, Keynes, Friedman, Samuelson. It has even provided some renewed interest in less-known although not less-important thinkers like Fisher and Schumpeter. But what has made this recession truly remarkable has ...
  1 day ago

• Medical Highways

  
  John Goodman's Health Policy Blog — Authority: 482
  Have you ever thought about what our health care system has in common with our systems of public roads, thoroughfares and highways?  In both cases the service is mainly free. Sure, toll roads are increasingly common and copays at the doctor’s office are too. But in both cases, the fee we pay is well below the true ...
  1 week ago

• Disinvest, use money for green assets: Finance Commission chief (With Images)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  New Delhi, Nov 20 (IANS) The government should sell off half its public sector undertakings and use the $200 billion it will thus make to build environmental assets, 13th Finance Commission Chairman Vijay Kelkar said here Friday.“India built physical assets by setting up public sector undertakings when that was ...
  1 week ago

• The Right to Hang (Your Laundry)?

  
  The Perfect Substitute — Authority: 426
  Story here : PERKASIE, Pennsylvania (Reuters) – Carin Froehlich pegs her laundry to three clotheslines strung between trees outside her 18th-century farmhouse, knowing that her actions annoy local officials who have asked her to stop. Froehlich is among the growing number of people across ...
  1 week ago

• Why Government Regulations Sometimes Work

  
  My Life ROI, Getting the Best Return On Life — Authority: 516
  Pretty much since the beginning of the automobile industry, lead had been blended with gasoline in order to boost octane levels. Lead content before regulation was 2-3 grams per gallon. Due to EPA regulations in 1973, lead content was phased down to 0.1 grams per gallon by 1986. State governments are now starting to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Consumption externalities in Singapore

  
  Economics — Authority: 143
  The excellent Jason Welker has a superb post on aspects of consumption externalities in Singapore . 
  2 weeks ago

• The new Dutch car tax is great!

  
  Economic Logic — Authority: 511
  The Netherlands just decided to revamp their car tax. First the taxes on the acquisition of cars, currently 25% of the sales price) and the yearly car tax are scrapped. This is replaced by a base tax of €0.03 per driven kilometer, an amount that is increased for gas-guzzlers, heavy vehicles and rush-hour traffic. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Gold price brings prospectors to the Highlands

  
  Economics — Authority: 143
  The high price of gold, reported by Geoff yesterday, is giving a clear signal to a mining company in the Highlands of Scotland that it should start production from a gold mine that was first drilled 20 years ago, but has never been commercially worked because the price of gold did not provide enough incentive to the ...
  2 weeks ago

• GMOs are no silver bullet for poor farmers

  
  Aguanomics — Authority: 593
  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. Sumita Mitra says: Last summer I had the opportunity to visit Vandana Shiva’s organic farm in Dehradun, India. Shiva became famous after her ...
  3 weeks ago

• Peak Oil

  
  Aguanomics — Authority: 593
  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. Andrew Clancy says: How can our economy recover from recession if the price of oil continues to climb? In 2007 we entered what appears to be a perfect ...
  3 weeks ago

• Why is organic produce more expensive than non-organic produce?

  
  Aguanomics — Authority: 593
  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 regular Fiji ...
  3 weeks ago

• Unintended Consequences and Negative Externalities

  
  MV=PQ: A Resource for Economic Educators — Authority: 426
  Finally, heres a very thought-provoking opinion piece from yesterdays edition of The Boston Globe  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. Unintended consequences are a result of any ...
  3 weeks ago

• Russian’s and their love affair with vodka

  
  Welker's Wikinomics Blog — Authority: 422
  The elasticity, or perceived necessity of different products can influence the decision to introduce a tax. In Russia, two products, Beer and Vodka are being looked at as a potential sources of new government revenue. A proposed increase in the tax duties on beer, will potentially increase retail prices by between ...
  3 weeks ago

• Problem of commons in Yemen

  
  Cybereconomics — Authority: 125
  Found on Marginal Revolution , an article in the New York Times that reports on the overuse of water in Yemen. Will they be able to curtail the use of water before catastrophe occurs? But traditional agriculture began to fall apart in the 1960s after Yemen was flooded with cheap foreign grain, which put many ...
  3 weeks ago

• Water subsidies lead to bad decisions

  
  Aguanomics — Authority: 593
  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. The problem is ...
  4 weeks ago

• New series of BBC Earth Report - Deforestation and Externalities

  
  Economics — Authority: 143
  BBC World’s Earth Report has just started a new series of reports and the first edition is a powerful programme on deforestation in Indonesia and the impact that this has on carbon emissions.  Across south east asia peat swamp forest is being drained to make way for oil palm or pulpwood trees. The destruction of ...
  5 weeks ago

• Marketing Externalities

  
  mobileYouth - youth marketing mobile culture research — Authority: 463
  [IMG: http://www.mobileyouth.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/slide131-300x225.jpg][IMG: http://www.mobileyouth.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/slide17-300x224.jpg]
  5 weeks ago

Comments about externalities