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Category: Microeconomics

What’s Wrong With Farmers Markets
Microeconomics

What’s Wrong With Farmers Markets

1 May 2020 9 Oct 2020

New Jersey USA, where I live, is awash in seasonal farmers markets. What’s not to love about that? They support local agriculture, and we get fresh nutritious food right …

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Nuclear Power: The Missing Cost-Benefit Analysis
Microeconomics

Nuclear Power: The Missing Cost-Benefit Analysis

7 Nov 2019 16 Oct 2020

An influential new book A Bright Future says the world need lots more nuclear energy to slow the carbon emissions that cause climate change. Renewable energy sources are okay …

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Why You Should Buy A Plug-In Hybrid Car (And What Automotive Writers Fail To Tell You About Them)
Journalism, Microeconomics

Why You Should Buy A Plug-In Hybrid Car (And What Automotive Writers Fail To Tell You About Them)

20 May 2019 14 Sep 2020

Please try this simple thought-experiment about a little car trip: Assume you have a gasoline-powered, non-hybrid automobile that gets an average 24 miles per gallon. (Metric values below for …

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How Would You Solve This?
Microeconomics

How Would You Solve This?

2 Jan 2019 18 Aug 2020

What to do about a shortage of liquor licenses… or taxi licenses… New Jersey USA has a shortage of liquor licenses. Laws dating to the end of Prohibition limit …

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