Governments and TaxesAs long as there are humans, we will form societies. As a result of those societies there will be governments [1], and in all probability these governments will require a source of human energy. This may be achieved through some fairly blunt means, such as slavery, corvée, a portion of a crop to more abstract methods through ( Read more... )

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Average Property Price as Multiple of Average Earnings (UK, 1953-2010)

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I thought some of y'all might find this site interesting: Ecosystem Valuation.

It's far from earth shattering, but it seems to have some solid intro- and intermediate information on how the environment is or can be valued in dollars & cents.

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Hi, I am currently working on my final graduate presentation for my MS in Mathematics. I got my bachelors in Economics and have applied to some Econ PhD programs . I have set the topic for my presentation to be on "Stochastic Differential Equations, Motivation and Applications." I would really like to pack it with a lot of applications on Economics ( Read more... )

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This is not for a school assignment, it's just something I've been trying to resolve and am coming up short(most of what I've read in economics and policy have given answers that don't make sense).

One of the things that I have seen discussed in the media is unemployment, underemployment and the need for jobs.  One of the things ( Read more... )

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Amusing and educational. IMO, YMMV.

How would you go about attracting capital into a long term investment with no short term returns?

Examples of such investment include research and development. Hence, a firm may have to spend 10 years before they can get something marketable.

Any thoughts?

Paul Samuelson is dead at 94.I think it's pretty safe to say he was the most influential economist of the 20th century. One thing that always impressed me about him was his sense of humor, which came through in his writing. There have been several occasions when I was reading something he wrote and I actually laughed out loud. That's pretty ( Read more... )

Right now I'm taking online micro- and macroeconomics classes, and they use the same online textbook that only gives me access to the sections my professors choose to cover, and don't really make for good searching for topics I want to review. Because of this, I want to buy my own textbook for personal and future reference, and was wondering if ( Read more... )