August 3, 2015
As we improve our transportation infrastructure, the roundabout has become increasingly attractive because of safety, ease and cost.
July 30, 2015
Because the presence of women in Major League Baseball (MLB) management positions is very small, they have diminished their talented human capital supply.
July 29, 2015
Because of a low gasoline tax, the Highway Trust Fund does not have enough money to maintain the transportation infrastructure of highways and mass transit.
July 28, 2015
Personal income relates to how long we sleep. Less sleep can diminish the productivity that brings a higher wage. But also, less sleep means more work time.
July 23, 2015
Weighing cost and benefit for Seattle's recycling environmental regulation involves privacy, dollars, time, and respect for the law and our environment.
July 22, 2015
Focusing on production and distribution, economists look at the role of markets and of government when they try to determine what causes and ends famines.
July 7, 2015
Among the least popular forms of taxation, property taxes are the most desirable because of their incentives, whom they target and their resilience.
July 6, 2015
As the automation of airplanes and autos increases, human capital questions have to be answered about whether we are safer when people know more or less.
June 30, 2015
To the dollars families spend on children, we can add the cost of stress from the time we devote to developing a child's human capital.
June 22, 2015
Regulation can have unintended consequences. With football helmets or seat belts or even financial regulation, protection can create more reckless behavior.
June 14, 2015
Through a cost and benefit approach to crime control, the limited money available for municipal spending can be spent most efficiently.
June 5, 2015
The market solutions and regulatory approaches used to solve the problem of elephant poaching have not worked for wildlife conservation in Africa.