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August 8, 2015
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August 8, 2015
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August 8, 2015
Weekly Roundup: From Traffic Congestion to Job Evaluation

Our everyday economics includes central planning, unintended consequences, comparative advantage, transportation infrastructure, cost & developing nations.

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August 7, 2015
Weekly Economic News Roundup and perverse incentives
August 7, 2015
How a Performance Metric Can Lead to a Giant Nail

In government, business and at home, the performance metrics we create always are accompanied by incentives that create unintended consequences.

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August 4, 2015
Weekly Economic News Roundup and transportation infrastructure
August 4, 2015
Some Humor and Insight About Highway Congestion

Using road design as an example, we can show how innovation in our transportation infrastructure can improve productivity.

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August 3, 2015
Everyday economics and the cost of roundabouts
August 3, 2015
The Reason We Should Drive Around in Circles

As we improve our transportation infrastructure, the roundabout has become increasingly attractive because of safety, ease and cost.

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August 2, 2015
Sanitation gap and human capital
August 2, 2015
The World’s Sanitation Gap

A production possibilities graph can display the land, labor and capital underutilization that inadequate sanitation creates and indicate a constrained GDP.

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August 1, 2015
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August 1, 2015
Weekly Roundup: From Robot Servers to Shrimp Farmers

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July 30, 2015
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July 30, 2015
Why Major League Baseball Has a C+ Gender Grade

Because the presence of women in Major League Baseball (MLB) management positions is very small, they have diminished their talented human capital supply.

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July 29, 2015
weekly economic news roundup and gasoline prices
July 29, 2015
Paying More at the Gas Pump

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.

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July 25, 2015
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July 25, 2015
Weekly Roundup: Matchmaking Mysteries to Garbage Privacy

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July 24, 2015
Everyday economics and monetary union
July 24, 2015
The Real Eurozone Problem

Although people in the eurozone want a single currency and their leaders want unity, monetary union problems create political distrust and disunity.

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July 23, 2015
Everyday Economics: and garbage recycling regulation
July 23, 2015
Exposing What You Hide in Your Garbage

Weighing cost and benefit for Seattle's recycling environmental regulation involves privacy, dollars, time, and respect for the law and our environment.

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