Public Goods

The Power of WE

Paul Boden | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Human Rights, Affordable Housing, Western Regional Advocacy Project, Social Services, Social Justice, Democrats, Public Housing, Civil Rights, Housing Crisis, Privatization, Homelessness, Policing, Homeless, Housing, Police, Community Organizing, Jail, Republicans, Business Improvement Districts, Federal Government, Public Goods, Corporate Control, Politics News
Paul Boden

Why wouldn't our government want the people being governed to be educated, healthy, well-housed and able to freely be in nature? Is it wrong to think that government should want these things for all people?

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Public Good -- Or Commodity?

John Merrow | Posted 05.28.2012

Read More: Public Schools, Public Education, Public Goods, Education, Education Reform, Education News
John Merrow

If education is a commodity to be purchased, then I say 'buyer beware.' When even our good schools devote weeks to test prep and the subsequent multiple-choice tests, that's an education system that is training kids as if life were a bubble test.

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Economics of the Environment

Robert Stavins | Posted 03.31.2012

Read More: Market-Based Environmental Policies, Common Property Resources, Environmental Policy, Economic Policy, Forest Policy, Free Rider Problem, Distributional Analysis, Environmental Economics, Cost-Effectiveness, Fisheries Policy, Climate Change Policy, Office of Management and Budget, Regulation, Obama Administration, Information Problems, Global Climate Policy, China, Distributional Equity, California, Linkage of Cap-and-Trade Systems, Environmental Politics, Cap-and-Trade, Kyoto Protocol, Natural Resource Economics, Revenue-Neutral Taxes, Korea, Import Allowance Requirement, Water Policy and Tagged Australia, Efficiency, Natural Resource Policy, Politics, Positive Political Economy, Benefit-Cost Analysis, Mexico, Market Failure, Economic Stimulus Policy, European Union, Corporate Social Responsibility, Brazil, Externalities, Japan, Sulfur Dioxide, Energy Policy, Energy Economics, Public Goods, India, Economic Valuation, Green News
Robert Stavins

The Sixth Edition of Economics of the Environment: Selected Readings has just been published by W. W. Norton & Company of New York and London. Throug...

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An Opportunity We Can't Afford To Miss

Jakada Imani | Posted 11.02.2011

Read More: Jobs, California, Green Jobs, Public Goods, Jerry Brown, Green Energy, Green Energy Economy, San Francisco News
Jakada Imani

We've heard it before -- "green jobs are on the way!" Just a few years later, the economy crashed and green jobs became fewer and farther between than anticipated. But a weak economy doesn't make the bad air any less harmful.

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Public Goods: Public By Necessity or Choice?

Jodi Beggs | Posted 08.30.2011

Read More: Rachel Maddow, Hoover Dam, Public Goods, Politics News
Jodi Beggs

Rachel Maddow argues, in one of her latest Spike Lee-directed commercials, that some goods and services need to be provided by the government because ...

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Somewhere Between the Emerald Isle and the Land of the Rising Sun

Max Fraad Wolff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mid-Term Elections, Unemployment, Public Goods, Economy, Ireland, Economic Recovery, Japan, Austerity, Business News
Max Fraad Wolff

Japan, with its enormous run-up in government debt, and Ireland, suffering to prove its bona fides to bond markets and investors, function as bookends to the present economic debate in the U.S.

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Give Them an Out

Amitai Etzioni | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Taxes, Public Goods, Libertarians, Government Reform, Politics News
Amitai Etzioni

The U.S. should draft a contract for every American who opposes "big government" and wishes to have their taxes slashed: those who sign will have to pay only a third of the tax rate; in exchange they will not be entitled to any government services.

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The Mayor's New Right Hand Man

John Petro | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ed Skyler, Indianapolis, Public Sector, Freedom Tower, Mayor Bloomberg, Public Goods, Private Sector, Yankee Stadium, Marketization, Free Market, Privitization, Public Services, New York City, Stephen Goldsmith, One World Trade Center, New York News
John Petro

Stephen Goldsmith's red state politics stand out in a city of true-blue Democrats, and his appointment is a clear indication that Bloomberg will make belt-tightening a key component of his third term.

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A Call for Excellent Public-Private-Partnerships

Michael Likosky | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: United Kingdom, Clean Drinking Water, Council of Project Finance Advisors, President Obama, Mexico, Malaysia, Howard Dean, Clean Energy, New Schools, Tbilisi, Infrastructure, Stephen Goldsmith, Kenya, Public Goods, High Speed Rail, Bolivia, Hungary, Mckenna Long & Aldridge, Privatization Indianapolis, Politics News
Michael Likosky

Former Governor Howard Dean and Former Mayor Stephen Goldsmith, both now affiliated with the international law firm McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP, just ...

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