Learn how externalities impact economic equilibrium and contribute to market failure in economic transactions, affecting both ...

My last column celebrated the bicentennial of the Erie Canal. This one goes deeper into the ways government action can create prosperity for all of us. This flies in the face of being fed a constant ...

Andriy Blokhin has 5+ years of professional experience in public accounting, personal investing, and as a senior auditor with Ernst & Young. Erika Rasure is globally-recognized as a leading consumer ...

To what extent does the digital world create a culture in which responsibility is denied or avoided, and what are the consequences of this failure to take ownership of a problem? Taking responsibility ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) addresses negative externalities with U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) ...

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The urgency to address corporate externalities—environmental, social, and health-related spill‑over costs—is intensifying. Hidden costs from pollution, resource depletion, and poor labor practices ...

“Keep your face towards the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you.” — Walt Whitman “‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.” ― Voltaire “Life does not have to be ...

A lot of us have trained ourselves to expect the worst—not because we want to be pessimists, but because figuring out how to be more positive often feels like an abstract concept, tied to forced, ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Economist Paramo Sanyal of the Brattle Group discusses the the Universal Service Fund, which subsidizes telephone service for low-income customers, ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Troughs play a crucial role in shaping storms and delivering all types of precipitation. A trough is an elongated area of low pressure that can stretch for hundreds of miles. When ...