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• 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 ...
  3 days ago

• The Sorry State of Modern Economics

  
  Jutia Group — Authority: 573
  Since last year’s collapse of the banking system, hundreds of billions of dollars have been spent to bail out some of the major players. Additionally,…
  4 days ago

• "Powerful Interests are Trying to Control the Market"

  
  Economist's View — Authority: 696
  For the first few years I was doing this, Id often complain that government regulators werent doing enough to intervene in cases where firms had substantial market power. But this was mainly an economic worry about how market power leads to the inefficient utilization of resources. Over time, however, Ive started to ...
  5 days ago

• David Blanchflower on Unemployment Policies

  
  Economics — Authority: 143
  David Blanchflower writes in the new Autumn edition of the RSA’s Journal about the help needed to avert an unemployment time bomb especially for younger workers. This piece builds on his recent talk at the RSA. It is a superb article and has some powerful sections on the economic and social consequences of high ...
  1 week ago

• Wal-Mart versus Amazon?

  
  Economist's View — Authority: 696
  James Surowiecki looks at the latest price war: Priced to Go, by James Surowiecki : In the spring of 1992, the airline industry ... found itself in the middle of a full-fledged price war. In a matter of months, the airlines collectively lost four billion dollars. ...[A]t bottom it was just like other price wars: all ...
  1 week ago

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  Economist's View — Authority: 696
  One more time, is CEO pay justified?: Banker Bonus Rain, by Nancy Folbre, Economix : ...Wall Street firms have always been famous for their generous bonuses to managers and traders — their so-called “rainmakers.” The graph ... shows that employee bonuses have actually exceeded the estimated pre-tax profits ...
  1 week ago

• Government Failure Versus Market Failure

  
  Incentives Matter — Authority: 125
  In this blog I like to point out how frequent and prevalent is the phenomenon of government failure . Under a public choice perspective, the problem is that, in the public sector, there are strong incentives to use market failure as an excuse for the adoption of awkward or interested public policies, while ...
  1 week ago

• The Myth of ‘Market Failure’ in Health Care

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 738
  One argument in favor of a government overhaul of the health care system is that the free market had its chance, and failed when it comes to providing the best possible care.  But as David Goldhill discovered while researching for the September cover article in The Atlantic , the United States has anything but a ...
  2 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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• "Bernanke: Smaller Banks Not Necessarily the Answer"

  
  Economist's View — Authority: 696
  Ben Bernanke does not want to lose "the economic benefit of multi-function, international (financial) firms," so he is hesitant to break large banks into smaller sized institutions. I dont have much problem with the economics, if there are efficiencies that come with bank size we should exploit them, especially if ...
  3 weeks ago

• Monopsony Power - Supermarket Bullies?

  
  Economics — Authority: 143
  Many thanks to Janis Thompson at Bristol GS for suggesting this terrific 3-minute video on the battle between supermarkets and their hard-pressed suppliers.  A great range of business and economics topics in here, including an obvious starting point for discussing the ethical issues raised in the clip Launch BBC ...
  3 weeks ago

• Would a soda tax make Americans better off?

  
  Welker's Wikinomics Blog — Authority: 125
  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

• "How Moodys Sold its Ratings -- and Sold Out Investors"

  
  Economist's View — Authority: 696
  Robert Waldmann says "This McClatchy article by Kevin G Hall seems important to me." It does seem like there was "market failure in everything" when it comes to mortgage markets, from the incentives faced by the homeowner (non-recourse loans) and real estate agent ( maximize commission income) at the very first point ...
  4 weeks ago

• A Case Study in Labour Mobility - 50 Jobs in 50 Weeks

  
  Economics — Authority: 143
  Perhaps we should expect nothing less from an unemployed Economics graduate, heavily in debt who had become desperate in search of a fulfilling job. Californian Dan Seddiqui went from being homeless and unemployed to getting 50 different jobs in 50 different US states in just 50 weeks and his story is featured in ...
  4 weeks ago

• Market failure in city gender inequality

  
  Economics — Authority: 143
  Study of the labour market includes market failures and gender inequality. It seems to me that, ever since the start of the financial crisis that led to the recession, there has been a series of reports suggesting that if there were more women in positions of power in the city institutions that lost control of their ...
  4 weeks ago

• "Transaction Cost Economics"

  
  Economist's View — Authority: 696
  Why do firms exist? Why is it sometimes beneficial to, say, produce a part needed in the production process yourself, and why is it better to contract with an outside firm at other times? Where are the boundaries between what will be performed internally, and what will be performed externally? How should firms be ...
  4 weeks ago

• Taylor Explains the Nobel in Economics

  
  Incentives Matter — Authority: 125
  Taylor explains the Economics Prize beautifully in these two paragraphs: Williamson’s research teaches us to recognize when transactions will take place within a firm and when they will take place in markets. He significantly extended Coase’s insights on reducing transactions costs by delineating the ...
  4 weeks ago

• Explaining the Tragedy of the Commons

  
  Economics — Authority: 143
  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 ...
  6 weeks ago

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