July 24, 2015
Although people in the eurozone want a single currency and their leaders want unity, monetary union problems create political distrust and disunity.
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 19, 2015
The reasons for relatively smaller increases in U.S. productivity are a mystery that could involve understating the new sharing/data economy.
July 17, 2015
As an innovation, the bicycle was a stepping stone that helped human capital move onward to other inventions like the airplane, the auto and better roads.
July 15, 2015
By asking Apple to pay her and other artists when customers get their music for free displays Taylor Swift's understanding of the basics of capitalism.
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 1, 2015
Comparing debt to GDP is like looking at a mortgage loan and household net worth. It can help us decide when a sovereign debt became too large.
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 17, 2015
To grasp the huge size of the U.S. GDP we can identify countries that have similar nominal output to individual states like California and Brazil.
June 14, 2015
Through a cost and benefit approach to crime control, the limited money available for municipal spending can be spent most efficiently.