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Contingent Valuation in Environmental Economics
For the audience who is unfamiliar with contingent valuation (CV), it is a method of estimating the value for each individual on a good....
Hải Đăng Vũ
Jun 8, 20185 min read


Malvinas or Falklands?
Fernando de Magallanes would have never imagined that his explorations would lead to one of the most disputed diplomatic conflicts of the...
Alfonso Garza
Jun 6, 20184 min read


Is There a Treatment to the airbnb “disease?”
If I were to plan a trip with friends to Portugal or Spain this summer, the first website I would check for accommodation options is...
Anastasiya Kovalenko
Jun 4, 20184 min read


Snap-elections called for snap-promises, but can Erdoğan keep them?
In 2001, the Turkish economy collapsed in an extensive crisis also known as “Black Wednesday”, the most impactful economic crisis in the...
Arzum Begüm Ünal
May 30, 20184 min read


Oil is Bad, M’kay: The Resource Curse
Oil and natural gas are bad. Their use causes climate change, on which most of us agree is one of our biggest current problems. Their use...
Joos Akkerman
May 25, 20185 min read


Economic Science and Economic Reality
Last week, Rethinking Economics NL published an outstanding analysis of the state of economics education in the Netherlands today. It...
Dirk Damsma
May 23, 20184 min read


Self-driving cars: are we ready?
Waymo, Ford, BMW, Volkswagen Group. These, among some others, are currently the companies that are more likely to be the first to have...
Maria Diaz Macias
May 23, 20184 min read


Convicted Retirement
It is a well-known fact that Japan has one of the worlds oldest populations, with a median age of 47 that’s well above the world median...
Daniella Sorrosa
May 21, 20183 min read


Development sector: In need of development?
I have always been very interested in development economics. Institutions such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund have...
Atma Jyoti Mahapatra
May 18, 20183 min read


Early Bird Gets The Worm
On the 18th of April 2018, the president of the Republic of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, together with an opposition party’s leader,...
Kaan Günderen
May 16, 20184 min read


Big Changes
A few weeks ago I attended the Digital Economy Days, a technological conference organized by the University of Amsterdam in partnership...
Ana Popovici
May 14, 20184 min read


Human Capital and Growth
Summary: During the course of history, we have seen how human capital could make a substantial difference to the economy. For example,...
Hải Đăng Vũ
May 11, 20185 min read


How Did Latin America Fall Behind?
There are different theories that try to explain the reasons of the contrast of economic development in the colonized countries. It is...
Alfonso Garza
May 9, 20185 min read


Productivity and Wages
Economists are generally hardly interested in how markets really work. If they were, they would have abandoned the concept of equilibrium...
Dirk Damsma
May 4, 20184 min read


The Tesla Experience
Over the years, the traditional method of doing business has been design, advertise, and hopefully sell your product. Recently, some...
Arzum Begüm Ünal
May 4, 20183 min read


Income Inequality: How Scared Should We Be?
There is no doubt that we are constantly being surrounded by articles that emphasizes how polarized the income distribution of the world...
Hải Đăng Vũ
Apr 9, 20184 min read


Consumer Waste is Money (But Can be Prevented)
It is commonly believed that markets enhance efficiency. Markets prioritize companies that make bigger profits and to keep your profits...
Dirk Damsma
Apr 8, 20184 min read


2018: A major hit to democracy in Latin America
In this year, democracy will once again be challenged in Latin America. Six different countries will hold presidential elections, and...
Alfonso Garza
Apr 6, 20185 min read


One-trick pony, finds its second trick
Personal computers are extremely complex machines. The intricacies of billions of individual circuit components working together and...
Evrim Öztamur
Mar 21, 20184 min read


Redefining Boundaries of Economics and Sociology
The science of economics is heavily criticized as to be disintegrated from the society. During the war periods, most of the attention of...
Hải Đăng Vũ
Mar 19, 20185 min read
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