April 24, 2015
The Supreme Court is deciding if the USDA can affect raisin grower property rights though a raisin reserve that mandates crop surrender to prop up price.
April 21, 2015
When a Texas barbecue restaurant or California hot sauce maker emits odors, municipal regulation can focus on quantity or taxes to restrict the pollution.
April 17, 2015
Human capital in developing nations is benefiting from inexpensive lights made from plastic soda bottles that also are connected to solar powered batteries.
April 15, 2015
Deciding whether they want revenue, prohibition or smuggling, lawmakers have to decide how high to make sin taxes on items like cigarettes.
April 10, 2015
A new study showing the prevalence of a "one is enough" cap on the number of female top executives at many firms confirms a continuing gender gap.
April 9, 2015
Relating to prices, a local multiplier and vacancies, there are tradeoffs if municipalities change the competitive market structure by banning chain stores.
April 5, 2015
Baseball managers say that winning requires time consuming competitive strategies that conflict with the sport's need to shorten game time and attract fans.
April 2, 2015
April 1, 2015
The popular music industry is a risk based culture in which addictive substances touring, irregular hours and stress create high mortality rates.
March 31, 2015
Because economists disagree on how to measure wealth, they convey different conclusions about the history of wealth inequality and distribution..
March 30, 2015
Allocating water to California almond growers that could be used elsewhere in the state represents tradeoffs and considerable cost during the drought.
March 29, 2015
If a performance metric is known, the people being evaluated have an incentive to shift their behavior so that their scores improve but not the job they do.