http://economics.fundamentalfinance.com/negative-externality.php
Good read, pretty straightforward. Gives a clear path beyond the subject itself to allow the student to think about the situation rather than analyze the condition of the externality.
September 14, 2012
August 7, 2012
Do we need a new National Broadband Plan? | Ars Technica
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/07/do-we-need-a-new-national-broadband-plan/
Good read.
June 19, 2012
Jesse’s Café Américain: The Secret State and the Tyranny of the Faceless and the Lifeless
http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2012/06/secret-state-golem-xiv.html
A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.
For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
June 7, 2012
Flexible spending account – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexible_spending_account#Medical_expense_FSA
Yet another negative for the Unaffordable Crap Care Act. The limitation of $2500 effectively makes any amount over that 25%+ more expensive. My guess is that this was done to increase tax revenues to aid in paying for this chunk of crap, though it was probably sold under some other guise… like “nobody should need more than that.” I wouldn’t bet on it.
May 3, 2012
The Immorality of the Social Contract | The Agora Telegraph
http://agoratelegraph.com/2012/04/29/the-immorality-of-the-social-contract/
Rosseau
April 19, 2012
“Going commando” on the TSA, redux: a kilt-wearer speaks
I still don’t believe this agency should exist. I have nothing against the employees themselves, and I understand the need for jobs. But jobs without a purpose are no good. I do find these articles and approaches interesting, because it will make it just that much harder to find people willing to take these jobs. And eventually, if nobody’s willing to do the job, it’s going to resolve itself (… or they’ll start stealing even more of our money to pay higher wages; wouldn’t put that past a government that determined the TSA should exist in the first place). I’d rather take my chances with terrorists than take my chances losing more freedoms to an already-too-large government.
April 4, 2012
Know Thyself
http://www.jayhanson.us/page89.htm
I have roughly conjectured on this at times. I find it all too feasible. As the individual who linked to the above page noted in their comment, “The world is full. Further economic growth is neither possible nor desirable. “