Another stunning article from someone I work with (I swear I’m not biased ), this one is about housing equity schemes. Now it seems the government is keen to introduce a housing equity scheme, having put money in the Budget for it. Now, the article covers most of the problems with a shared equity scheme, …
Category Archive: Microeconomics
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Aug 09 2007
The regulation of beer
I realise that a lot of important economic figures were released today, however, I have found an issue more important than any amount of labour market data, the regulation of beer. Now, according to this article, most binge drinkers drink beer. So they think we can reduce binge drinking by taxing beer, and reducing availability …
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Aug 08 2007
Porn and manipulation
I was reading a post on how advertising manipulates preferences, or in other words it gives us mis-information, leading us to make the wrong choices. At the same time I was thinking about porn, and that lead me to tie the two together and discuss how porn may lead to manipulation. Now in the advertising …
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Aug 07 2007
Image does make a difference
So food with a McDonalds wrapper does taste better. Now I’m sure many people will take this as a sign that advertising is evil, as it can lead to children being overweight, however I think it is an awesome service provided by McDonalds. You see McDonalds advertising makes food taste better, they increase the value …
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Jul 27 2007
Artificial environmental goodness
Arnold Kling at EconLog isn’t impressed by Planktos who claim to …restore damaged habitats in the ocean and on land. Through iron-stimulated plankton blooms in the oceans and afforestation projects in Europe, we are able to generate carbon credits. We then sell these offsets to individuals and businesses that are looking to reduce their carbon …
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Jul 27 2007
Carbon taxes for all
Well, I don’t always agree with Gary Becker but he has a nice post on carbon taxes and why they could be George W Bush’s friend. He says A tax on carbon emissions from business and household production would not only help reduce global warming–by how much is still controversial–but it would also lower the …
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