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Daily Archive for February 1st, 2010

And in Other News …

Posted in Government Gone Wild on Feb 1st, 2010

A new paper by Fernanda Brollo, Tommaso Nannicini, Roberto Perotti, Guido Tabellini test the theory that additional government revenues increase political corruption and decrease the quality of politicians. What do they find? In accordance with the predictions of the theory, we find that larger transfers increase political corruption and reduce the quality of candidates for […]

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Running Out of Resources – Antimony Edition

Posted in Resources on Feb 1st, 2010

Look at what has happened to the scarcity of antimony over the past 100 years. (aside: antimony is a metal that when used as an alloy can substantially harden materials, it is commonly used in batteries and in semi-conductor production among myriad other uses) The top chart adjusts nominal antimony prices to account for the […]

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