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May 11, 2018
China's GDP
May 11, 2018
How China Has Begun To Keep (a Social) Score

In China, by being good to your mother-in-law, you can elevate your social credit score, get a cheaper bike rental, and a better bank loan.

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November 6, 2017
weekly economic news roundup and consumer spending
November 6, 2017
How to Plant Marijuana Markets

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October 15, 2017
Weekly Economic News Roundup and China's R&D
October 15, 2017
Why China’s Scientists Got the Wrong Message

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May 23, 2017
Weekly economic news roundup and China's private schools
May 23, 2017
A Surprising Way to Ration Education

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June 27, 2015
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June 27, 2015
Weekly Roundup: From Raisin Reserves to Greek Bank Reserves

Our everyday economics includes inelasticity, supply, regulation, entitlements, subsidies, healthcare, innovation, price floor, monetary policy, euro zone.

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June 21, 2015
Weekly Roundup and antibiotic innovation and sales
June 21, 2015
A New Way to Calculate Drug Prices

Rather than the market system, several doctor suggest that cancer drugs can be priced using variables based on value that include toxicity and efficacy.

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June 3, 2015
Everyday economics and ownership in a market system
June 3, 2015
How Congress Would Anger Alexander Hamilton

Whenever people try to limit the rights of owners, as with Alexander Hamilton and bondholders or now with the ART Act, there are market system tradeoffs.

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May 26, 2015
Weekly Economic News Roundup and peanut butter
May 26, 2015
When Real Peanut Butter Is Not What or Where You Expect

Required by commerce in a market system, standard weights and measures not only take us to the kilogram or second but also even peanut butter.

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May 18, 2015
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May 18, 2015
How Markets Can Save Honeybees

While a government task force will soon report on how to deal with the increase in honeybee deaths, instead the market system could solve the problem.

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May 27, 2014
In the major sports leagues and for golf, there is a top 1% and income inequality that can be measured with Gini Coefficients.
May 27, 2014
The Income Inequality That Doesn't Bother Us

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April 29, 2014
Should the market system or government regulate the sharing economy?
April 29, 2014
Dilemmas From the “Sharing Economy”

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April 9, 2014
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April 9, 2014
The Big Impact of a Little Salamander

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