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Stephen Colbert skewers as per usual...
"If we go to smaller cars, soon we'll be just like Europe."
Hat-tip: Greg Mankiw and Tyler Cowen
This is just for Kara. A really common textbook for introductory economics classes is Greg Mankiw's. In the first chapter, he lists 10 principles of economics.
This guy has translated them into terms lay people can understand. Heads up: people are stupid. Just so you know what to expect... (…
Haha! The Law of Demand works. Price goes up. Driving goes down.
Figure: NYTimes
I repeat: if you want to lower demand for and hence consumption of gasoline, this is the best thing that has ever happened for you. Prices are the most effective climate change abatement policy, and a gas tax…
At least someone is benefiting from the economic stimulus package:
An unforeseen and surprising beneficiary of the Economic Stimulus Plan, a plan that George Bush contends will "boost our economy and encourage job creation," has surfaced this week. An independent market-research firm, AIMRCo (Adult…
It's simpler than I thought. But not simpler than it needs to be, thankfully.
Now if people would just use our scienceblogging.com wiki (which, btw, was down all day but is fixed now) to co-ordinate their travel and hotels, and to add questions to the discussions before the conference starts....
I've used wikis with my graduate students for two semesters now -- and it's easy enough for all of them to use, even those who've been out of school for 10 or 20 years. I will use this video too -- both for them to learn how to post to a wiki, and to learn how to evaluate other people's wikis!