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Month: June 2013
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Craig Newmark: One of my wife's students will begin Harvard this fall. He plans to major in economics so he wrote to her and asked if I had suggestions for "Ways to learn material, books to read, important classes to take?" Here's what I sent her to send to him, for anybody who might find…
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Jodi Beggs at About.com: I was told a number of years ago that Harvard Kennedy School professor Rob Stavins is always very careful to point out to his students that a job created is a cost, not a direct benefit. (Of course, the benefits to the company of hiring another worker may outweigh this cost,…
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Not from The Onion: DOT quietly pulled [charging stations for plug-in electric cars at four interstate highway rest stops in Johnston and Alamance counties] out of the ground and trucked them to a warehouse. In their place today are four blue signs memorializing the end Feb. 28 of an “EV charging station pilot project.” ……
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Gas taxes have two objectives: Price the external effects of driving–like emissions, congestion, road use/maintenance… Raise revenue for other government programs Sometimes these two objectives conflict. For example, by pricing the external effects of driving, a gas tax makes driving more expensive and leads drivers to seek alternative ways to reduce the cost of driving. …
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Mark Thoma: I just let Typepad know that the comment situation is unacceptable. They need to allow me to approve commenters by IP so this doesn't happen, fix it themselves, or I am going to have to switch to a new blog provider. I can't take this much longer. For now, if you are thinkig…
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From the inbox: We are pleased to inform you that the Scientific Programme of the 20th Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists is now accessible online at http://www.webmeets.com/EAERE/2013/Prog/. We also invite you to visit the Conference website at http://www.eaere2013.org, where information on keynote speakers, the venue, transportation, social programme, registration,…
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Or the value is zero. These have been available outside my office door for several months!
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Posted on behalf of Tim Haab:
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Tyler Cowen: The chance to jump on the Medicaid expansion bandwagon won’t go away tomorrow. Even if the cost-benefit ratio > 1, you still might want to play wait and see. There is even a chance that in the meantime you are somehow offered a better deal yet. The "cost-benefit ratio" implies cost divided by…
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I just realized: The 3rd Annual AERE Summer Conference will take place at The Banff Centre in Banff, Alberta, Canada, on June 6-8, 2013. Click here for the Conference Program. Click here for final Program Update Sheet. Additional information regarding the conference is available at http://www.aere.org/summer/. via aere.org The first session is starting about now.
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