This week’s everyday economics stories included spillover, externalities, incentive, opportunity cost, sovereign debt, demand and financial intermediaries.
We should cancel daylight saving time because studies show that the opportunity cost of energy use has changed since Ben Franklin suggested “early to rise.”
With populations growing older in the developed world, their wellbeing might affect the GDP growth rate because of the expense of their care.
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