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Property Rights and Fishery Conservation Reuters

Property Rights and Fishery Conservation

Guest post by Jonathan H. Adler, a professor at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law and regular contributor to the Volokh…

Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Used TV? Wikimedia Commons

Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Used TV?

The market for flat-screen TVs is truly unique: the price of the new product falls almost every year

Silicon Valley's Next Big Thing: Beer Churchkey Can Co.

Silicon Valley's Next Big Thing: Beer

The nostalgia business reaches new heights.

The New Economics of Happiness todd baker/Flickr

The New Economics of Happiness

Some awesome new findings -- including a report on the happiest countries on the planet -- -- suggest that developing a theory of "happynomics" is harder than you might think

This Podunk North Dakota Town Is Now More Expensive Than Manhattan Wikimedia Commons

This Podunk North Dakota Town Is Now More Expensive Than Manhattan

For $2,000 a month, you can rent a lovely motor home.

For the 1st Time Ever, a Majority of the Unemployed Have Attended College Reuters

For the 1st Time Ever, a Majority of the Unemployed Have Attended College

It's a striking stat. But it doesn't tell us that college is losing its value. It tells us that more people are going to college -- and not enough are finishing.

The Sorry Six-Day History of Facebook, Inc.: A Glitch, a Snitch, and a Tumble Reuters

The Sorry Six-Day History of Facebook, Inc.: A Glitch, a Snitch, and a Tumble

The biggest tech IPO in history is turning into a giant metaphor of greed and hyper-optimism, as bankers and analysts struggle to figure out what went wrong.

What a Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Can Teach Us About Obamacare mrfotos/Shutterstock

What a Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Can Teach Us About Obamacare

Ronald Coase's example of farmers and ranchers shows that the insurance mandate is about responsibility, not liberty.

The Revenge of the Rust Belt: How the Midwest Got Its Groove Back Reuters

The Revenge of the Rust Belt: How the Midwest Got Its Groove Back

By becoming more cost competitive, the Midwest is luring back manufacturers, creating signs of hope in a troubled region.

Property Rights and the Tragedy of the Commons Reuters

Property Rights and the Tragedy of the Commons

Guest post by Jonathan H. Adler, a professor at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law and regular contributor to the…

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