https://commercialsociety.net/taxonomy/term/141/all en https://commercialsociety.net/node/506 <h2>Mumbai tests traffic lights that stay red if you honk your horn</h2> Read more Thu, 17 Sep 2020 18:41:42 +0000 tlwagner 506 at https://commercialsociety.net https://commercialsociety.net/node/434 <h2>Episode 949: The Pigou Club | Planet Money</h2> In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a smog settled over London. It was called the London Fog, or Pea Soup. Read more Tue, 19 Nov 2019 21:07:07 +0000 tlwagner 434 at https://commercialsociety.net https://commercialsociety.net/node/417 <h2>The Impact of Big-Box Retailers on Communities, Jobs, Crime, Wages, and More: Research Roundup</h2> This article analyzes data from many studies on the impact of big-box stores. Read more Mon, 11 Nov 2019 22:48:56 +0000 tlwagner 417 at https://commercialsociety.net https://commercialsociety.net/node/376 <h2>Externalities - Intelligent Economist</h2> This website is an excellent guide to understanding externalities. Read more Mon, 30 Sep 2019 20:03:44 +0000 tlwagner 376 at https://commercialsociety.net https://commercialsociety.net/node/371 <h2>Court Rules Woman Can Keep Her Red and White Striped Townhouse</h2> Judge quashes order to repaint London house, in win for property developer who denied choosing colour scheme out of spite Read more Sat, 21 Sep 2019 00:02:02 +0000 tlwagner 371 at https://commercialsociety.net https://commercialsociety.net/node/265 <h2>Cyanide: an easy but deadly way to catch fish</h2> Catching live fish using cyanide is easy. Crush a couple of sodium cyanide tablets into a squeegee bottle of water, dive around a coral reef, find a fish you fancy, and squirt the toxic liquid into its face. The mixture stuns the fish without killing it, making it easy to catch in a net, or even by hand. Read more Wed, 19 Jun 2019 20:31:02 +0000 tlwagner 265 at https://commercialsociety.net https://commercialsociety.net/node/160 <h2>Episode 663: Money Trees - Planet Money</h2> When NPR&#039;s reporting team traveled deep into the Amazon rain forest to report on the environment, they took planes, a truck, and a motorcycle. Lots of fuel was burned. Lots of carbon was emitted. They felt guilty. In the process of reporting on the environment, were they making the problem worse? Read more Wed, 15 May 2019 19:56:39 +0000 tlwagner 160 at https://commercialsociety.net https://commercialsociety.net/node/146 <h2>Externalities: When Is a Potato Chip Not Just a Potato Chip?</h2> If Art sells potato chips to Betty, both Art and Betty are happy with the transaction. Betty has chips, and Art has been paid for them. Read more Wed, 15 May 2019 19:16:34 +0000 tlwagner 146 at https://commercialsociety.net https://commercialsociety.net/node/144 <h2>Externalities | Paul Solman</h2> A brief video covering the concept of externalities. Read more Wed, 15 May 2019 19:12:10 +0000 tlwagner 144 at https://commercialsociety.net