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Economics: Principles and Applications: Should we boycott or ban products made by sweatshops?

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Economics: Principles and Applications. Tuesday, June 7, 2011. Should we boycott or ban products made by sweatshops? From the New York Times: Where Sweatshops Are a Dream. By Nicholas D. Kristof January 14,2009. Among people who work in development, many strongly believe (but few dare say very loudly) that one of the best hopes for the poorest countries would be to build their manufacturing industries. But global campaigns against sweatshops make that less likely. The Unbelievable Truth About Sweatshops.

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Useful Links – Edgar County Farm Bureau

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Edgar County Farm Bureau. Your source for Agriculture Advocacy, Consumer Education, and Community Connection. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Ag in the Classroom. Local and Legislative Affairs. Join Edgar County Farm Bureau. Local Cash Grain Bids. Local U of I Extension Office. Local Soil and Water Conservation District. Association of Illinois Soil and Conservation Districts. Illinois Council on Best Management Practices. Illinois Crop Improvement Association. Illinois Milk Producers...

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Economics: Principles and Applications: Population, Economic Growth, & Natural Resource Prices

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Economics: Principles and Applications. Wednesday, January 16, 2013. Population, Economic Growth, and Natural Resource Prices. One of the most missed questions in my principles class straight from the textbook - T/F: the prices of most natural resources have remained stable or decreased:. Http:/ www.aei-ideas.org/2013/01/julian-simon-still-more-right-than-lucky-in-2013/. Sent from my iPhone. Posted by Matt Bogard. Should resource allocation be based on democratic outcomes (voting) instead of prices?

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Economics: Principles and Applications: Knowledge Problem

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Economics: Principles and Applications. Monday, May 23, 2011. The knowledge of the circumstances of which we must make use never exists in concentrated or integrated form, but solely as the dispersed bits of incomplete and frequently contradictory knowledge which all separate individuals possess'. This is referred to by economists as the 'knowledge problem.'. For more information related to issues regarding democratic decision making, see Public Choice Analysis. The Use of Knowledge in Society. Is grain ...

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Economics: Principles and Applications: Taxes, Elasticity, Revenue, and Economic Activity

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Economics: Principles and Applications. Friday, September 2, 2011. Taxes, Elasticity, Revenue, and Economic Activity. Romer, Christina and David Romer, (2010). The Macroeconomic Effects of Tax Changes: Estimates Based on a New Measure of Fiscal Shocks, American Economic Review, vol. 100(3), pages 763-801. Tax increases to be highly contractionary with a negative effect on investment. Fiscal stimulis based on tax cuts increases the probability of future economic growth greater than spending. Djankov, Sime...

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Economics: Principles and Applications: Income, Poverty and Economic Growth

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Economics: Principles and Applications. Tuesday, October 6, 2009. Income, Poverty and Economic Growth. New York Times: You Are What You Spend. Wall Street Journal: Income Mobility- U.S. Treasury Study ( link. Income Mobility in the U.S. from 1996 to 2005. DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY. From the PEW Economic Mobility Studies:. Http:/ cafehayek.com/2009/06/absolute-mobility.html. Source: The Myth of Middle-Class Stagnation, Steve Conover. From the October 3rd EconTalk podcast,. October 18, 2010. Income data p...

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Economics: Principles and Applications: Externalities, Coase, Ostrom & Demsetz

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Economics: Principles and Applications. Thursday, March 7, 2013. Externalities, Coase, Ostrom and Demsetz. Ronald Coase brought new insight to the way we view social costs and the principle of ‘polluter pays.’. The insight that Coase brought was the reciprocal nature of social costs and externalities and has been referred to as the Coase Theorem. The important elements of the Coase Theorem (in the context of the present example) can be demonstrated as follows:. Production) you are harming me. The assignm...

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Economics: Principles and Applications: Keynesian Multipliers and Fiscal Stimulus Policy

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Economics: Principles and Applications. Monday, November 28, 2011. Keynesian Multipliers and Fiscal Stimulus Policy. Among academics over the last 30 years, the idea of fiscal stimulus has been discredited and in graduate courses, it is "taught only for its fallacies.". John Cochrane, University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Thomas Sargent, New York University, Nobel Prize in Economics 2011. Did Stimulus Dollars Hire the Unemployed? Discussion of her work with economist Russ Roberts). Http:/ weber...

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Links: Kane County Farm Bureau

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University of Illinois Extension, Kane County. KaneDuPage Soil and Water Conservation District. Websites of Affiliated Organizations. AgriVisor Services, Inc. Illinois Agricultural Auditing Association. Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute. Center for Agriculture and Rural Development. Illinois Council on Food and Agricultural Research. F ield and Product. Technology Transfer Automated Retrieval System. State and County Rankings. American Association of Equine Practitioners. Illinois Milk Prod...