External Costs, Global Warming, Forever Plastics, and Orthodox Economics
Thoughts after Senator Sheldon Whitehouse’s “Time to Wake Up 298: The 10th Our Oceans Conference” No sooner had I finished my earlier post, “‘Outdated and […]
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Three Plagues On Our Species – Nation States, Religion, & Capitalism
Responding to Global Warming and the Pillaging of the Earth Viewed from the perspective of the looming disaster of global warming accompanied by the exhaustion […]
Industrial Food and Econ 101 – the case of externalities
Externalities – the language of Econ 101 What are externalities? Defined in two widely used textbooks: “An externality occurs when some of the costs or […]
Hard Data about Ultraprocessed Foods and Health – Sugar in the spotlight
Over several decades, there has been increasing discussion of the role of ultra-processed foods in our health. Globally, surging levels of diabetes, hypertension, obesity, and […]