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marcelorodriguezechl f09

allAfrica.com: Tanzania: Prevent Death On the Roads - 0 views

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    In this article, a serious negative externality of a public good is presented: deaths in a public road, or more specifically a motorway. There are numerous preventable accidents occurring in the road, mostly due to police inefficiency, and neglecting of safety standards. This public good is definitely an example of a market failure.
catherineechl f09

Public Health-Care Spending to Hit Milestone - WSJ.com - 0 views

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    This article talks about U.S. government spending on public health care. While the system is costly, it creates positive externalities. One of the main positive externalities here is the number of insured people in the United States. By providing a public good like health care, the government is protecting more of its citizens.
masayaechl f09

Cameron Sinclair: Haiti: Children, Children Everywhere and Not a Place to Teach - 0 views

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    Education is a public goods provided by the government in almost all MEDCs. If education is a public goods, the previleidge to receive education does not get stripped away even if someone else receives. However, in Haiti where the earthquake hit hard, children cannot receive proper education. In a country under crisis, education may not be a public goods, but rather a produce only available for those who have the will to pay and the ability to pay.
saraechl f09

Toyota's Safety Problems: A Checkered History - 0 views

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    This article talks about how Toyota's electric car has always had problems that need to be fixed. Toyota manages to solve thes problems and always brings back a better model. This article relates to Public Goods because the electric car is an invention that was created to help with air polution. Air is not something that can be bought or sold, and it is our reponsability to keep it clean. Toyota's electric car is providing an alternative to only using petrol to power cars.
marrissaechl f09

Norway goes Kaynesian - 1 views

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    This artical explains that Norway is going thorough an economic downfall and so what the government is doing, is highering people to first, lower the unemployment rates an This is also a powerful political broadside before the upcoming parliament elections in Norway. The expansion of the budget, heavily focused towards public expenditure gives the package a strong leftist profile as well as allowing the government to support popular causes such as strengthening the economy of municipalities (which are responsible for primary education and care for the elderly among other things), more public building projects and increased spending on education and research.d for 2, to do the Kaynesian way and bring up this economic down fall.
masayaechl f09

While Stumping for Jobs Plan, Obama Pushes Health Bill - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    President Obama hit the road again Tuesday to promote the new job-creation program he described as his No. 1 priority, but he refused to abandon his embattled health care legislation, vowing to "punch it through" resistance in Congress. The health care system proposed by President Obama is a public goods because it would be provided to anyone, with the interference of any to violate that right. Yet, Obama still struggles to push the health care plan through the resistance in the Congress.
meiechl f09

China considering pollution controls - UPI.com - 0 views

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    Clean air is a public good, as it is non-rivalrous and non-excludable. The provision of clean air is a massive problem in China, because its rapid industrialization and high output has come at the cost of the environment, and subsequently created large amounts of toxic waste that is being released into the air and the water.
matteaechl f09

Govt approves US$33mn for Viracopos airport expansion - 0 views

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    The government of Brazil has approved 61mn reals for the expansion of an airport. This expansion should reduce overcrowding in other airports. Because it is provided by the government, it is a public good. Because it reduces travel time, it creates a positive externality.
marrissaechl f09

Toyota recalls hybrids - 0 views

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    Toyota will recall 300,000 Prius hybrid vehicles because of brake flaws, newspapers reported Sunday, in the latest blow to the Japanese car giant reeling from safety woes that have sullied its reputation. this takes a tole on society for those who try to help unpollute the world. where this good is well, good and now its gone
marrissaechl f09

job markets still 'on the ropes' - 0 views

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    Almost one in three public sector employers plan to shed jobs this quarter. Markets keep on chrashing due to economic ressesion. and people constantlt lose their jobs. However, there was better news from the private sector, which expects to see staff numbers grow for the first time since the start of the recession.
issaechl f09

Health Care: Rx for MBA Job Blues - BusinessWeek - 0 views

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    This article talks about how the US government implementing Health care reform would have many positive externalities. In addition to producing an overall healthier population, the health care also provides more job opportunities for people not only in the health care industry but for people with MBA's as more people are needed to organize the growing sector.
joshuaechl f09

New fire stations have cut response times, report says - 0 views

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    This article gives an example of a service that causes positive externalities. It describes the addition of two new fire stations. According to the article's report, the positive externality of this service is that response times have been dropped by an average of 30 seconds, which can be the difference between life and death.
marcelorodriguezechl f09

BBC News - Labour 'will pledge not to raise income tax rates' - 0 views

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    The British government promised not to raise any income tax, believing that the British labor would "rebuilt the economy, renew the society, and restore trusts in politics." This topic is relevant to this week's topic because delaying the tax increase is a type of deregulation. The consumer are likely to buy consumer goods before a leap in the tax rates occur and the extension of income tax delay would probably contribute to a small increase in AD since the disposasble income remains the same. The expectation of increase in tax rate would induce consumer to buy more product before the actual rise.
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    This article is talking about the UK's labour party wanting to rebuild the economy because the conservative party does not think that they deserve a fourth term. This article links to this week's subject because the labour party promised to keep 'business tax as low as possible' to give maximum protection to frontline public services.
saraechl f09

Where the manifestos hit our wallets - 0 views

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    This article relates to the topic of income tax because it is talking about the different parties in the English government will change the income tax to please the public.
matteaechl f09

Romania to cut pensions and wages - 0 views

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    This article is about Romania's intentions to cut public sector wages and pensions as a part of an IMF-led rescue plan. These pensions are a form of welfare payments.
masayaechl f09

Poverty fuels protests in the Middle East | Marketplace From American Public Media - 0 views

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    Poverty is fueling the protests in the Middle East. This article is relevant to this week's topic because lack of education and unhealthy environment leads to low-quality human resources, and thus the slowdown in the economic growth.
masayaechl f09

BBC News - UK manufacturers call for stability - 0 views

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    The EEF manufacture organization in UK announced that public finances are needed to restore the stability of the Uk's productive sector or else firms are going to drop out of the industry. This is relevant to the concept of effeciency because if these firms cannot either reach the allocative or productive effeciency, they will have to exit from the industry due to tremendous loss.
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