What role does greed play in society? What rewards virtue?
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MATT BOGARD
Topics for Discussion
- Should resource allocation be based on democratic outcomes (voting) instead of prices?
- Are the rich getting richer while the poor get poorer?
- Do billionaires really pay less in taxes than their secretaries?
- What prolonged the Great Depression? The Effectiveness of Keynesian Stimulus
- Can tax cuts impact entrepreneurial activity and job creation?
- Can tax cuts increase government revenue?
- Do minimum wages cause unemployment?
- Do price gouging laws help or harm?
- Does fair trade branding promote economic development and combat poverty?
- What role do sweatshops play in a free society?
- What role do profits and greed play in a free society?
- What are some myths about markets?
Economics and Sustainability
- Sustainability, Economics, & Statistics
- Are we running out of natrual resources?
- Is local food better for the environment?
- Is modern food production sustainable?
- Have ethanol subsidies impacted food prices?
- Is grain fed livestock less sustainable than grass fed?
- Modern Sustainable Agriculture (video)
- More...
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Austrian Economics
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biofuels
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climate change
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coase theorem
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development economics
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economic growth
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Economics Applications
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ECONOMICS PRACTICE PROBLEMS
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Example Code
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externalities
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financial crisis
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fiscal policy
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game theory
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Income Inequality
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inference
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Knowledge Problem
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local food
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macroeconomics
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minimum wages
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monetary policy
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price gouging
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profits
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public choice
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R
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R applications
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R Code
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references
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rent seeking
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sample size
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SAS
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SAS Code
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Statistics Basic Concepts
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Statistics News and Industry
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Statistics Resources
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subsidies
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sustainability
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trade
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video
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About Me
- Matt Bogard
- Applied economist focusing on the economics of innovation, risk, and consumer choice as it relates to food, health, and biotechnology.
ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS LINKS
OTHER ECONOMICS & STATISTICS LINKS
- Cafe Hayek
- Public Choice Analysis
- Mercatus Center : George Mason University
- Federal Reserve - MN Research
- Foundation For Research on Economics and the Environment
- Bureau of Labor Statistics
- Library for Economics and Liberty
- Statistical Modeling Causal Inference and Social Science
- Social Science Statistics Blog
- Revolution Computing (Stats using R)
- Forecasting Principles
- Wall Street Journal
- Austrian Economics- Mises Institute
- Minimum Wage Research
- Marginal Revolution
- Greg Mankiw's Blog
Blog Archive
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2011
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May
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- Jude Capper on Sustainable Beef
- Do we get more energy out of ethanol than it takes...
- Has genetically modified Bt corn had a negative im...
- Rent Seeking
- Ten Facts Related to the Economics of Modern Food...
- Price Gouging Laws Cause Marathon to Reduce Supplies
- Do Minimum Wages Cause Unemployment?
- WHAT REWARDS VIRTUE
- Have Ethanol Subsidies Impacted Food Prices?
- Energy Use and GHG Emissions Associated with Local...
- Paper finds no empirical link between biofuels, la...
- Tragedy of the Anti-commons
- Knowledge Problem
- The Coase Theorem
- The Median Voter Theorem
- Voting Paradoxes
- The Tragedy of the Commons
- Type II Error Bias and the Response to Hurricane K...
- Type II Error Bias and the FDA
- Type I and Type II Errors
- Public Choice Theory
- Biotech Alfalfa: Who May Harm Who- An application ...
- The Impact of Farm Subsidies on the Federal Budget...
- R Code Example for Linear Regression and Analysis ...
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May
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