Sex, Drugs and Economics

A couple of weeks ago I reviewed Jared Diamond's 2005 book  Collapse . One of the examples he uses in the book is Easter Island. So, I ...

The debate about fluoridation of town water supplies is an ongoing feature in many New Zealand towns and cities (as one example, consider Wh...

Let's say that your country was the world's largest consumers of an agricultural product (or at least, the largest buyers on the int...

It's nice when the things we talk about in ECON100 or ECON110 classes are illustrated by real-world examples. Last week, cauliflower pri...