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April 21, 2024
Gates of the Arctic National Park & Preserve
April 21, 2024
Choosing Between a Road and a Reserve

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April 14, 2024
Weekly Economic News Roundup and free football
April 14, 2024
When Free Football Has a Cost

Experimenting with free football by not charging for tickets, a French and a German team changed the cost of a game.

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March 20, 2024
Weekly Economic News Roundup and:fire ant economics
March 20, 2024
The (Economic) Invasion of the Fire Ant

The economic side of Australia's fire ant invasion includes accepting the massive eradication opportunity cost.

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March 4, 2024
Weekly Economic News Roundup and aging populations
March 4, 2024
What Would You Pay To Save An Hour?

The value of time becomes very real when we decide how much money we are willing to spend to use less of it.

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January 31, 2024
Weekly Economic News Roundup and ad-free streaming
January 31, 2024
Why There’s No Such Thing As a Free Ad

Considering the cost of ad-free streaming video, we are nudged in opposite directions by incentives that relate to behavioral economics.

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December 4, 2023
Arthur Ashe Stadium
December 4, 2023
Why Sports Stadiums Create Dilemmas

Like all sports projects, renovating Arthur Ashe Stadium requires choosing between most fans and the minority that brings the most revenue.

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December 1, 2023
Weekly Economic News Roundup andcost of climate policy
December 1, 2023
How Cost Can Change Climate Policy

With COP28 having begun, we can ask if the delegates are comparing marginal decisions about the cost of climate policy to its benefits.

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November 6, 2023
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November 6, 2023
The Economic Side of a Sandwich

Whether it's breakfast or lunch, a look at sandwich economics tells us about our food tradeoffs and our GDP spending.

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September 10, 2023
Weekly Economic News Roundup and gender pay gap
September 10, 2023
Where Equal Pay Cost £1.1bn

Whether looking at a city, a firm, or a sports team, we would see that equal pay outlays always have an oppoturnity cost.

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June 15, 2023
Weekly Economic News Roundup and line sitting
June 15, 2023
Why An Arraignment Requires Line Sitters

Requiring more than 24 hours of standing in line, the recent Trump arraignments in Manhattan and Miami boosted line sitting demand.

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May 29, 2023
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May 29, 2023
Simply Stating the Debt Ceiling Deal

Stated by Congress in 99 pages of unintelligible sentences, the two halves of the debt ceiling deal can be simply summarized.

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May 19, 2023
May 19, 2023
How Mickey Mouse and Prince Are Similar

Although the Supreme Court has answers about the intellectual property rights to an original image of Prince, still we debate its ownership.

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