External Costs, Global Warming, Forever Plastics, and Orthodox Economics
Thoughts after Senator Sheldon Whitehouse’s “Time to Wake Up 298: The 10th Our Oceans Conference” No sooner had I finished my earlier post, “‘Outdated and […]
Paul Krugman
A “Decent” Federal Budget?
Paul Krugman, “What a Decent Budget Would Look Like” Paul Krugman’s recent post, “What a Decent Budget Would Look Like – Imagining a Congress that […]
Industrial Food and Econ 101 – the case of externalities
Externalities – the language of Econ 101 What are externalities? Defined in two widely used textbooks: “An externality occurs when some of the costs or […]