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July 23, 2015
Everyday Economics: and garbage recycling regulation
Published by Elaine Schwartz at July 23, 2015
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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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July 22, 2015
Weekly Economic News Roundup and corn and climate
Published by Elaine Schwartz at July 22, 2015
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Why a Hungry Country Might Have Enough Food

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.

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July 17, 2015
As an innovation the bicycle has had many positive externalities.
Published by Elaine Schwartz at July 17, 2015
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The Wright Moment for the Bicycle

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.

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July 15, 2015
The everyday economics of hanging supply and demand, streaming music meant new kinds of contracts with record companies and new relationships with consumers.
Published by Elaine Schwartz at July 15, 2015
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Taylor Swift Gives Apple a Little Taste of Capitalism

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.

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June 30, 2015
Everyday economics and the cost of developing a child's human capital costs families more than money.
Published by Elaine Schwartz at June 30, 2015
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Why Children Are More Expensive Than We Think

To the dollars families spend on children, we can add the cost of stress from the time we devote to developing a child's human capital.

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June 14, 2015
Everyday economics and cost of crime
Published by Elaine Schwartz at June 14, 2015
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The Cost of the Squeegee Men

Through a cost and benefit approach to crime control, the limited money available for municipal spending can be spent most efficiently.

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June 5, 2015
It's Tough To Solve the Poaching ProblemNeither the market nor a regulatory approach has solved the problem of poaching in Africa.
Published by Elaine Schwartz at June 5, 2015
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A Poaching Problem that Regulation Hasn’t Solved

The market solutions and regulatory approaches used to solve the problem of elephant poaching have not worked for wildlife conservation in Africa.

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June 1, 2015
height bias
Published by Elaine Schwartz at June 1, 2015
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India’s Height Mystery

Long assumed to have a direct relationship, the connection between height and GDP becomes more complex when we compare India and Africa.

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May 21, 2015
Everyday economics and the impact of Wonder Bread
Published by Elaine Schwartz at May 21, 2015
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What Bread Says About Women

Through the industrialization of just one slice of bread, we can see the history of the U.S. economy since the beginning of the 20th century.

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May 13, 2015
Everyday economics and the Social Security Disability Insurance trust fund
Published by Elaine Schwartz at May 13, 2015
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Why the Social Security Crisis Has Begun

Caused by aging baby boomers, expanded criteria and the remnants of the great recession, SSDI entitlement spending is approaching insolvency.

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