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The Economics of Crime
One of, if the not the biggest thing holding back revitalization in American cities is crime. The facts speak for themselves – cities with high crime rates generally have poor growth rates. Cities that...
View ArticleThe Arrogance of Green Economics
How many of us have started industrial scale businesses that have gone on to produce great value and therefore great wealth? How many have started industrial companies that produce “green” products? I...
View ArticleFear the Boom and Bust – Rap Economics Video
This video is a great primer on macro-economic philosophy especially as it relates to how we think about national issues. AND its a rap. It doesn’t have much to do with Trenton, but everybody should...
View ArticleThe Role of Eminent Domain in the Train Station Revelopment Plan
Economics is all about the choices humans make and in the aggregate human societies (micro economics and macro economics). Negotiating can be thought of as a specific case of micro economics closely...
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Economic “Must Reads” for Trentonians
Reinvent Trenton is published to help policy makers and voters think about Trenton’s issues and how to resolve them. The site introduces new ideas, it presents data and it offers what I hope are...
View ArticleThe Beer Drinker’s Parable
The following story is often passed along by Republicans who wish their liberal friends could understand economics. They hope that making a simple parable out of the down-side of progressive taxation...
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