…with medical schools, the margin on the practice] So why do research universities do research? The positive externalities of reputation as a research university. When parents talk about sending their…

…risk. Read the link for more details. Of course, addressing these factors will have positive externalities for your health beyond reducing dementia risk. 14 factors to halve your dementia risk…

…efficiency (since car bloat’s many externalities present a textbook case of market failure), slapping new taxes on the heaviest cars, as France has done. Or they could add crash tests…

…costly interventions.” While many drugs are overpriced, both in terms of production costs and in terms of recouping investment costs, any discussion of drug costs should acknowledge the positive externalities…

…failures. Market power, competition and monopoly. Regulation, externalities, asymmetric information, principal-agent Repeated games, time preferences, storage, transaction costs and institutions. And so on… Some of you might note that I…

…this package. The plan assumes the whole policy package is equal to 70% of the sum of its parts. This would help account for some fiscal “externalities” (i.e., taxing wealth…

…the positive externalities. Tuition and philanthropy are two of the major ways research universities subsidize research. A strong research reputation is a magnet for philanthropy. And parents want their kids…

Putting a human face on the need for public goods and services. Perhaps Rick Perry will take the next step from asking for help and realise that being a country…

My Loyal Reader notes that the economic survival of Zimbabwe’s current government is now largely dependent on sin taxes: As he presented his revised 2009 budget to parliament, Finance Minister…

In the past two minutes of checking out Coates’s latest—well worth reading, otherwise—there have been banner and frame adverts for: The Atlantic Business, edited by Megan McArdle, “Decoding the Mysteries…