Economic View: A Fable, Adapted From Aesop
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Some economists are starting to question the magnitude of housingÂs impact on national habits of spending and thrift.
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How campaign donors can defy the odds of a classic economic theory.
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Tim Harford writes that human beings are rational creatures who respond to incentives and rewards. No matter how bizarre a choice might seem, there is logic at work.
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Zeno of Elea famously postulated his many paradoxes in defence of Parmenides' worldview: that all is "oneness," and pluralism is merely an illusion.    Of his forty paradoxes, the four most enduring have fascinated philosophers, mathematicians, and regular pundits for millennia.    As one of the many pundits ensnared by Zeno's challenges, I will present my own analysis of arguably his most famous paradox of all: The race between Achilles and the tortoise.
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Liquid economics of bottled water.
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One of my buddies had a brilliant idea I hadn't thought of: Check Pennsylvania's maps for what's called a co-op farm. It's not a commune, it's a farm which offers up it's land to the public for hunting.  What the Farmer Gets  If the hunters are decent-folk, they generally clean up the trash off the property. I personally built a blind out of rocks I happened to find in a fallow field to give me something to sit on and a hiding place. The blind is next to a power utility pole, so it gives me a great shot at birds coming in slowly to land on the wires. He got his field cleaned essentially for free since I also picked up trash. I don't want my game animals eating garbage.  The other bonus the farmer enjoys is limited crop losses to wildlife. This particular farmer was doing the soy-corn-fallow crop rotation which is pretty typical Pennsylvania crop rotation. Doves love this stuff and eat it up. Probably about 2/3rds of the doves I cleaned had corn in their crop.  What the Hunters Get  A place to hunt with a ton of acreage devoted to what essentially amounts to bait.
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Some economists have argued that there is no such thing as âpure altruism,â but a new study has spotted it in the brains of students.
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By Barnes, Phillip E  Consumers
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Comment is free: Simon Jenkins: The vast increase in opium poppy farming in Afghanistan is indicative of an inability to grasp a basic law of economics.
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Grand lessons from grand larceny: An inspiring tale for today's youth.
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The agricultural operator's shortfall? Taxes.
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Start on the path to wealth with an attitude adjustment.
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Is there something new that open source development methods and values can bring to the economy? How about something old?  I think the answer may come from the developing world, where pre-industrial methods and values persist and offer some helpful models and lessons for a networked world that's less post-industrial than industrial in a new and less impersonal way. This began to become apparent to me a few years ago I had a Socratic exchange with a Nigerian pastor named Sayo, whom I was lucky to find sitting next to me on a long airplane trip.
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Irregular hors d'ouevres, scheduling mishaps, and the stockbroker's eternal dilemma.
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The link between the stock market and the economy sometimes can sound like the chicken and the egg scenario &#151; Which comes first?
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Not all penguin stories are equal in the public's mind.
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This Fool classic exposes some secrets about millionaires.