This article from the guardian retells the UN's findings of how the oil industry (which operates on common access resources) is harming the Amazon (another common access resource)

An 8-year old Chinese girl is now a cancer patient due to pollution. Through heavy industry and a large amount of transport by rail, car, and plane, pollution has reached levels at which it poses a health risk to the population.

The NIH are against government price controls and for the third time in a row had to reject the governments aid, as it would be against the law if the government did aid the NIH. The government wanted to fund drugs essential to specific and vital purposes.

The mayor of Chicago, USA, Rahm Emanuel, wants to place a specific tax on cigarette packs, 75c per unit more than before. Though he sais he is doing it in the city's best interest: to have more city funds available for low-income children with vision problems, and other projects that require funding.

This article describes the launch plans and the Xbox marketing chief's opinions on the profits made shortly after the launch in late November. He sais that even though all pre-orders have been sold out, due to the production, marketing, and development costs, there will be a very low margin at first. So even though the demand is very high, the price and supply are to inelastic to provide a higher margin for Microsoft.

This is a slightly older article from late 2012. Apple increased the minimum price for paid apps in the European app store from 0.79€ to 0.89€. The incentive behind this change was to match the US$0.99 equivalent in minimum price. The demand though did not change much as the price change was minimal, and it only applied to a small fraction of all apps.

The absence of any pricing mechanism in the Pakistani Pharmaceuticals market has caused a stop in production and inflation of the Rupee. I find it interesting because it really shows us how important a proper pricing mechanisms are in a market.