This simple law of health care economics featured prominently in the debate over health insurance mandates during the presidential primaries.
September 20 , 2013 10.30am A session on energy with Roger Helmer MEP 10.50am: A session on economics, featuring Mark Littlewood from the Institute for Economic Affairs 11.30am: A speech from Paul Nuttall MEP, the deputy leader 11.50am: Nigel Farage, the party leader, delivers his keynote speech.
Finally, we show how a variety of applications in public economics, corporate finance, development and international economics featuring incomplete risk sharing can be analyzed using the tools of the theory of recursive contracts.
NPR's Planet Money recently did a fun segment on the classic board game and its relationship to actual economics, featuring commentary from a couple of actual economists.
By John Cassidy September 11, 2017 A new online introductory economics curriculum features video interviews with eminent living economists, such as Thomas Piketty.
Although the categories are crude, and the details may seem off-puttingly quaint (boss's wife likes you, get a pay rise), the game teaches something about the utilitarian calculus at an age when philosophy and economics rarely feature on the timetable: different kinds of good fortune are not easily interchangeable.
Then, in a year when economics was featured on the front pages as seldom before, they hand the dismal-science award to a relatively obscure Berkeley economist, Oliver E. Williamson, and a positively obscure (to most economists, anyway) Indiana University political scientist, Elinor Ostrom.
In a conversation at the Los Angeles Times, Jennifer Lee ("Frozen"), Chris Renaud ("Despicable Me 2"), Chris Sanders ("The Croods"), Dan Scanlon ("Monsters University") and Chris Wedge ("Epic") tackled such topics as the challenges of female characters, the effect of celebrity voice actors and the changing economics of feature animation.
The study concludes that although a NuScale plant coupled to a reverse osmosis desalination plant provides the most favorable economics, NuScale design features offer several flexibilities for coupling to thermal distillation plants and hybrid plant configurations.
