- A Place Comfortable With Boeing, Anarchists and ‘Frasier’: Museum of History & Industry Reopens in Seattle
- Carbon Taxes Make Ireland Even Greener. See also California Law Tests Company Responses to Carbon Costs. And Scientists Report Faster Warming in Antarctica. And What Could Disappear (interactive graphics of sea level rise). And A Big, and Risky, Energy Bet (natural gas to diesel). And Climate Change: Lessons From Ronald Reagan (by Cass Sunstein, about how cost-benefit analysis could be useful). And Fuel From Waste, Poised at a Milestone.
- E.P.A. Sets a Lower Limit for Soot Particles in the Air
- Environmental Priorities Coalition
- The Bribery Aisle: How Wal-Mart Got Its Way in Mexico
- Robert H. Bork, 1927-2012: A Conservative Whose Supreme Court Bid Set the Senate Afire: Mr. Bork discovered economics and became a libertarian opposed to government intervention and regulation. He began to evolve a similar theory of law, seeking what he called “neutral principles.” His major scholarly contribution, a 1978 book called “The Antitrust Paradox,” encouraged mergers and called for less antitrust regulation for efficiency’s sake. Students called a course he taught on the topic at Yale “protrust.”
- Officials contemplating raising fuel taxes, fees for roads, Metro
- Albert Hirschman, Optimistic Economist, Dies at 97
- In $18 Million Theft, Victim Was a Canadian Maple Syrup Cartel
- For Poor, Leap to College Often Ends in a Hard Fall
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