Commons sense
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Nobel Prize winner Elinor Ostrom's work lays the groundwork for crafting ground-up institutions that can govern the commons effectively.
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Common sense
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Elinor Ostrom, winner of this year's Nobel Prize for Economics talks about climate change, India's development dilemmas, and the limitations of orthodox economics.
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GreenBeat: Al Gore says Smart Grid part of ‘the single largest solution’ to climate change
The Industry Standard (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Nobel Prize winner and former vice president Al Gore gave a wide-ranging, passionate talk at VentureBeat’s GreenBeat 2009 conference yesterday in San Mateo about combating global warming. We already liveblogged Gore’s talk , but for folks who don’t want to read the blow-by-blow description, here’s a summary. Perhaps the most significant point: That energy efficiency is “the...
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NASCAR’s Jeff Gordon Partners with EPA to Work for Cleaner Air
ecopolitology (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
What's the first name that comes to mind when you think of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency? Current EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson, embattled Bush-era EPA chief Stephen Johnson, or the first EPA administrator, William Ruckelshaus? No? How about NASCAR driver Jeff Gordon? Related Posts... EPA Rails Against New Jersey Dept. of Environmental Protection , Coal-to-Switchgrass, 4-Day Work Weeks,...
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The Tobin Tax Lives Again
Bill Totten's Weblog (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
by Dani Rodrik project-syndicate.org (2009) Something happened in late August that I never thought I would see in my lifetime. A leading policymaker in the Anglo-American empire of finance actually came out in support of a Tobin tax - a global tax on financial transactions. The official in question was Adair Turner, the head of the United Kingdom Financial Services Authority, the country's chief financial...
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One of this year’s Nobel prizes for economics speaks to the make-or-buy choice for legal services
Law Department Management (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
That all economic transactions are costly in terms of finding, contracting with, and enforcing the arrangement we know from the seminal work of Ronald Coase, winner of the 1991 Nobel prize for economics. Finding the right price to pay among...
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Doug North on Williamson and Ostrom
Kempton - ideas Revolutionary (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Douglass North, 1993 recipient of the Nobel prize in economics, talks about the 2009’s laureates, Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson. [via Gary M C Shiu] Posted in Economics, Nobel-Prize, Video, World, YouTube
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Capitalism is not what brought about our economic disaster actually the poor need capitalism. Poverty has dropped 64% from 1970 to 2006 despite increase of population.
Values Voter News (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
1976 Nobel Prize winner in Economics. Daniel Hannan economically conservative politician from the UK. Values Voter News agrees with Daniel Hannan. See CSPAN Video of Geithner admitting that the perceived government safety net of financial institutions distorted the free market Obama administration admitting that Fannie and Freddie were a "core part" of the country's financial woes And a recent...
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Economists Tout Health Care Reform In Letter To Obama
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
In a boost to the Obama administration's efforts to frame health care reform as an economic boon, a group of 20 health economists sent a letter to the White House on Tuesday touting the fiscal results of passing reform legislation. The group lists four specific elements of reform as crucial to controlling costs and righting the fiscal trajectory of the health care system's overhaul. They include making...
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2009 Nobel Prize Winner Elinor Ostrom: We Need More Cross-Disciplinary Research
SimoleonSense (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
I’ve been saying this for years… If only I could find a cool interdisciplinary phd program. (H/T Finance Professor) Introduction (Via Wall St Cheat Sheet) 2009 Nobel Prize winner for economics Elinor Ostrom discusses the problems with siloing academic disciplines: Watch The Video Below Or Click Here For Our Subscribers
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Revenge tax
FP Passport (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
A " scurrilous idea " -- better known as the Tobin tax, a levy on foreign-exchange transactions -- seems to be taking on a life of its own. This week U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio is expected to propose a tax on all financial transactions (like stock purchases -- excluding those connected to health, education, and pensions). The idea of funding job creation in this way has the backing of a variety...
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moneyscience: Video: 2009 Nobel Prize winner for economics Elinor Ostrom discusses the problems with siloing academic disciplines http://bit.ly/4bgAOQ
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Nobel economist Joe Stiglitz didn't receive invite to Obama "Jobs Summit" either
AMERICAblog (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
I reported the other day that Nobel laureate in economics Paul Krugman had not received an invite to President Obama's "Jobs Summitt" in early December. I now have an update from Anya Schiffrin, Joe Stiglitz's wife, who just emailed me (the email is real, we know each other): I saw your post mentioning Joe. We never saw an invitation. It is possible they sent one and it didn't get passed...
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Pop Quiz Answer
The Scratching Post (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Yesterday, I asked, who said this and when? A premature withdrawal of monetary and fiscal stimulus could pull the rug out from under the nascent recovery. Yes, the mammoth federal budget deficit is both appalling and unsustainable. But this is not the time to shrink it by raising taxes or cutting spending. The precise answer is Alan Blinder , formal Clinton economics guru and member of the Federal...