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• Peak Oil

  
  Aguanomics — Authority: 598
  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 ...
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• Why is organic produce more expensive than non-organic produce?

  
  Aguanomics — Authority: 598
  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 days ago

• Unintended Consequences and Negative Externalities

  
  MV=PQ: A Resource for Economic Educators — Authority: 429
  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 ...
  4 days ago

• Russian’s and their love affair with vodka

  
  Welker's Wikinomics Blog — Authority: 121
  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 ...
  4 days ago

• Problem of commons in Yemen

  
  Cybereconomics — Authority: 119
  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 ...
  5 days ago

• Water subsidies lead to bad decisions

  
  Aguanomics — Authority: 598
  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 ...
  6 days ago

• New series of BBC Earth Report - Deforestation and Externalities

  
  Economics — Authority: 141
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Marketing Externalities

  
  mobileYouth - youth marketing mobile culture research — Authority: 126
  [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]
  2 weeks ago

• The hidden costs of burning fossil fuels

  
  Sustainable Living — Authority: 129
  Figures from 2005 (from a report to Congress from US National Research council); $120 billion from power generation, $62 billion of which is from burning coal and $56 billion of which from oil related to motor vehicle use. The NRC report left out 3 big items in their research; Climate Change, Ecosystem Destruction, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Dealing with pet overpopulation

  
  Economic Logic — Authority: 467
  A lot of western families nowadays have pets at home, and they spend a considerable amount of money on them. Pet animal are a great source of fun and comfort, hence their popularity. But despite this high demand, there is also and oversupply, because demand is picky on the breeds and features of the animals, and older ...
  2 weeks ago

• Externalities: Body Odor Edition

  
  The Perfect Substitute — Authority: 133
  From the AP (dated 9/2/2009): HONOLULU - A vote on a Honolulu City Council proposal that would bar people with offensive odors from public transit vehicles is being delayed. The proposed ordinance would make it illegal to have "odors that unreasonably disturb others or interfere with their use of the transit ...
  2 weeks ago

• Counting the hidden ($120 billion) cost of US energy economy

  
  ShareConnector — Authority: 455
  One of the biggest challenges of evaluating and planning the energy economy is the existence of what economists call externalities, or externalized costs. Any activity that causes damage to the environment and its inhabitants, such as running a large coal plant, exacts a price from society as a whole that doesn’t ...
  3 weeks ago

• Would a soda tax make Americans better off?

  
  Welker's Wikinomics Blog — Authority: 121
  Econ professor and blogger Tim Haab has posted a great story on market failure, efficiency and corrective taxes at his blog, Environmental Economics: I love when someone else does my work for me . With appreciation, I re-post his blog here in its entirety. Tim’s “Questions to consider” are perfect for IB and ...
  3 weeks ago

• External costs of energy production, auditing the Energy Star program, and more

  
  Knowledge Problem — Authority: 616
  Michael Giberson NewsWatch:Energy puts together a pretty good list of energy links , today noting the National Research Council’s new “ Hidden costs of energy: Unpriced consequences of energy production and use .” (Surprise: coal looks bad. But note that much of the harm arises from a small number of ...
  3 weeks ago

• Case againt the Minimum Wage

  
  Trying Liberty — Authority: 418
  Here is an article that I found from Dan Smith. It is about all the negative effects of minimum wage laws. It is really interesting to see how the laws hurt wages of young workers, that minimum wage laws generally hurt blacks, and increase job turnover. Those are just a few of the negatives that [...]
  3 weeks ago

• Nobel Prize in Economics: A different take on the Tragedy of the Commons

  
  Economics — Authority: 141
  Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson shared the 2009 Nobel prize for economics (and the accompanying $1.4m) on Monday for their work on how economic transactions operate outside markets in common spaces and within companies.  Ostrom’s work focuses on how the traditional Tragedy of the Commons which we teach ...
  4 weeks ago

• Video Interview with Joseph Stiglitz

  
  MV=PQ: A Resource for Economic Educators — Authority: 429
  First of all, thanks to Jason Welker for the link. Heres a very good video interview with the Nobel-prize winning economist and Columbia University professor Joseph Stiglitz. Its from the on-line edition of The New Yorker . Stiglitz is an outspoken critic of globalization (an area of disagreement I have with ...
  4 weeks ago

• How Traffic Jams Help the Environment

  
  MV=PQ: A Resource for Economic Educators — Authority: 429
  Theres a thought-provoking article (free at this writing) from the weekend edition of The Wall Street Journal . It makes a case that traffic jams actually help the environment. Now, before you write the article off as the ravings of some anti-environmentalist, I suggest you take a look at it. The main idea is ...
  4 weeks ago

• Explaining the Tragedy of the Commons

  
  Economics — Authority: 141
  Tom Witherow offers this super explanation of the Tragedy of the Commons and some contemporary applications: This was a title of an article by Garrett Hardin in 1968, however, now the phrase is more commonly used to name the effect which it describes. It explains what can happen when a number of people or players ...
  5 weeks ago

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