August 12, 2015
Whenever a new skyscraper is built, we can ask whether its shadow violates our property rights when it eliminates the sunlight in a city's parks.
August 2, 2015
A production possibilities graph can display the land, labor and capital underutilization that inadequate sanitation creates and indicate a constrained GDP.
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 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 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 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.