This article, written by Stephen Hawking, talks about how the NHS (british heath care paid for by the government) is a great public good and should not be made private and given a charge. He talks about his personal experience.
This article talks about how human carbon dioxide emissions as an example of positive externalities of production. From the tune of $160 billion per year.
This article talks mainly about economics in the UK and how we have two different sides (left wing and right wing (Tories) ) and the article is quite biased, however, it has some statistics on how people in the UK feel about price controls.
This article talks about how voters in the Colorado state have voted to approve 'proposition AA' which imposes a 15 percent excise tax and an initial 10 percent sales tax on recreational marijuana. If proposition AA approves it it predicted to bring in $67 million a year. This shows how the government can put such a high excise tax on inelastic goods and people will still be willing to pay for it.
This article talks about how the iPhone 5C is doing. It seems that it isn;t doing to well, however this might not be the case. It talks about how apple could lower the price of the phone to make more people want it, however, they don't seem to need to take those steps. (This refers to price elasticity).
This is an interesting article that talks about how scarcity can really badger with people's mind. It also talks about how it makes us as people, focus. I think this is because we need scarcity to be able to achieve our goals to make the resources we want easier for us to get. This article mentions the phycological research done by Prof. Shafir collaborating with an economics professor Sendhil Mullainathan to write ' Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much '. It is an interesting read.