This article is a brief analysis of Australian government's investment in research and points out that the amount of money invested is decreasing. It also presents possible future implications of this state of affairs.

This article deals with the long- and short term unemployment and their impact on inflation. Federal Reserve's paper gives doubts whether there is any difference between them. Worth looking through!

This article deals with the connection between inflation and unemployment, which is one of the current issues we're discussing.

This article deals with the effect of unemployment benefits on the unemployment rate.

This article gives an example of the state as a monopolist and its incomes.

This article discusses the opportunities for uranium production in South America.

This article is about the main public Canadian corporation that delivers radio and TV. On the example of hockey it discusses the matter of media as a public good.

This article states that air pollution is the main cause of cancer. In terms of economics, this means that it is an external cost of production received in consumption - as the process of recovering from cancer is very costly.

This article discusses the relation between minimum wage laws and unemployment.

This is a very interesting criticism of taxes imposed on things that affect our health negatively posted by Adam Smith institute. As these particular taxes raise many controversies, I think it is worth reading.

This is an article that appeared lately in The Economist. It considers gas taxation in order to fund roads. It gives the factor that we discussed during classes: substitutes to gasoline, PED, the influence on the environment.

This article smoothly discusses the PED of gasoline. It's worth reading because it examines it clearly and quite precisely - e.g. taking into consideration time. It shows that gas is an inelastic good, due to the fact that it's really necessary and commonly used. This text ends with a nice conclusion stating that one's never fully sure about the changes in economy.

This article is about how government interferes with the price mechanism, known better as interventionism. It is worth looking through!

This article shows how total income and trends affect demand using an interesting example of coffee.

This article is simply about troubles with an alternative to one of the most worrying scarce resources - fossil fuels. Will we eventually have to find something else?

Yes indeed, you're right. I believe this is one of the most important factors among markets; in fact transport rests on it. Well, we still have some time and I'm full of hope scientists will strike a happy medium :)