3 posts tagged with economics by anotherpanacea.
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Natural disasters are good for the economy. No, they aren't. Yes, they are. Well, maybe sometimes they are and sometimes they aren't. (pdf) It helps if somebody makes a movie or a television show about it. The Broken Window fallacy.
posted on Jul 8, 2008 - View this thread
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita uses rational choice theory to predict the future.
posted on Dec 4, 2007 - View this thread
Have your war and heat it too? As the war approaches the $350 billion mark, Cass Sunstein notes: "For the United States, the economic burden of the Iraq war is on the verge of exceeding the total anticipated burden of the Kyoto Protocol." Costs may rise as high as $10 trillion. At least we know it wasn't about oil: in a good year, Iraq makes about $14 billion on fossil fuels. (via)
posted on May 10, 2006 - View this thread