economics

While your point that software development is not free is valid, it's more a matter of ethics, not economics here.

And since marginal utility pretty much destroys the relationship between labor and value, it should be sufficient to discredit Marx's economics.

Don't know, but it will radically change the model for energy economics for sure.

I know that this doesn't feel good to talk about, but economics is more about numbers than feelings.

Historically collecting good data in economics has been painstakingly slow, especially in large scales.

I think for a lot of these buildings the economics of refactoring is worse than for rebuilding.

They back up their claims with various arguments as to the nature of the average consumer and echoes and remnants of trickle-down economics theories.

This was just painful to read about how little the author understands about basic economics and the privileges afforded to that ONE tiny nation.

First, this is a fallacy: in economics, things usually have multiple factors.

It's not a question of economics, it's a simple question of arithmetic.

I have been reading a lot on economics lately and karl marx predicted this outcome.

But I don't think the above will even be an issue because the economics of it won't make it that long.

Since we are talking about the "Economics of Climate Change", we should start with this.

And some of the filtering can be done with information theory, basic economics, probing deeper until you find the "and them some magic happens!" step, and some other non-biological tools that apply everywhere.

But if the premise is that a single man can "come up with an idea" and magically produce an ipod with comparable personal effort, and no reliance of a third world factory economy -- as an author can come up with a book -- then I don't think the author of the article has the required connection to reality to discuss economics at all.

Even though the fees for Vanguards targeted retirement date fees are much higher than a weighted average of one of their money market and index funds, these fees are still really low and as such, the "set it and forget it" function is very useful and valuable (certainly when considered in a behavioral economics framework where one may not be as disciplined with re-balancing as the models indicate).