Stiglitz Is Wrong About Marginal Pricing
Rising income inequality and concentration of resources into fewer large firms are not a problem for marginal-pricing theory.
Rising income inequality and concentration of resources into fewer large firms are not a problem for marginal-pricing theory.
The way that government collects taxes is awful. The process of spending it is even worse.
Decades of government mismanagement has wreaked havoc on the Apalachicola oyster industry.
Synthetic marijuana is more dangerous and unpredictable than the ordinary kind. It exists because the Drug War has made cheaper, more potent drugs more profitable. And on a black market, safety is not the seller's chief concern.
Thanks to government loans, the price of college has skyrocketed in recent years because student loans mean colleges can raise their prices without driving away otherwise-price-sensitive students. Only a fraction of the hefty price hikes go toward classroom instruction or core educational functions.
A successful economy depends on innovative entrepreneurs who are willing to take large risks in return for the chance at great profits.
In an unhampered economy, we would measure economic progress by a need for fewer work hours and fewer jobs. In our mixed economy, it's impossible to say whether more jobs reflect an improving or a worsening economy.
The aftermath of the recent recession has brought renewed skepticism to EMH, even leading some to redefine it as the “inefficient” market hypothesis. We demonstrate that such a course of action is misguided.
The US government owns immense amounts of dry land, but the US government also owns far larger amounts of ocean floor. Government ownership of such immense amounts of natural resources causes substantial distortions to prices and markets.
Do women really pay more than men for the "same" goods and services? No. Not only are these supposedly identical goods not actually identical, but the consumers value them differently, leading to different prices.