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By Yoram|2021-05-19T01:17:30-06:00October 15th, 2012|Blog|1 Comment
  • A Possibly Fatal Mistake (Kristof on health care)
  • The Cancer Lobby (also by Kristof, about industry lobbying). See also With Affirmative Action, India’s Rich Gain School Slots Meant for Poor
  • Hidden in a Nook, Mastery in Plain Sight: Restaurant Review: Ichimura at Brushstroke in TriBeCa (NYC)
  • [Tomato] Ammunition for a Trade War Between U.S. and Mexico
  • Carbon Taxes and the “Tax Interaction Effect” by Robert P. Murphy
  • Wash. Supreme Court: Pollution tax constitutional: The state Supreme Court unanimously ruled Thursday that the state’s hazardous substances tax is constitutional.
  • Andrew Brimmer, First Black Member on Fed Board, Dies at 86: Dr. Brimmer attended the University of Washington in Seattle on the G.I. Bill of Rights, earning an undergraduate degree in economics in 1950 and a master’s degree the next year.
  • ‘Three Strikes of Injustice’ (about 3 Strikes laws in CA)
  • Virginia Republican Adopts Cuts in Defense as His Issue
  • Young, Gifted and Neglected (by the education system)
  • A Woman’s Place: ‘The End of Men,’ by Hanna Rosin. See also Why Women Still Can’t Have It All.
  • How would a carbon tax work? Let’s ask British Columbia. (from WonkBlog). See also Carbon tax: The Musical.
  • Inspectors Certified Pakistani Factory as Safe Before Disaster (about factory fire)
  • Tax Credit in Doubt, Wind Power Industry Is Withering
  • Taiwan Company Fined $500 Million for Price-Fixing
  • Power, Pollution and the Internet
  • EconoTrolls: An Illustrated Bestiary (very funny)
  • How ‘Silent Spring’ Ignited the Environmental Movement
  • The Patent, Used as a Sword
  • Scientists Adopt Tiny Island as a Warming Bellwether (about Tatoosh Island, WA)

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  1. James October 15, 2012 at 1:31 pm - Reply

    FANTASTIC talk at University College London tonight! Thank you!!!! Haven’t laughed so hard in months!

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