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The NFL Should Be More Like NASCAR
Written by: Sameer Pandya, Friday 28 November 2008 - 00:00 AM 
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In a manifesto for sports fans, two professors call for more merit and less monopoly.
Carping About CEO Pay: An American Tradition
Written by: Emily Badger, Thursday 13 November 2008 - 10:00 AM 0 Comments
Current efforts to cap extreme CEO pay — which may or may not be a problem anyway — may not outlive bailout.
Escape From Kyoto: Saving the Protocol
Written by: Emily Badger, Friday 07 November 2008 - 09:00 AM 0 Comments
The right to weasel out of greenhouse-gas agreements might be just what’s needed to make them work.
Inventing for Peanuts
Written by: Bob Burtman, Tuesday 04 November 2008 - 12:40 PM 1 Comments
Jock Brandis invented a low-cost, people-powered peanut sheller that could raise millions out of poverty around the world. Now, if someone would just come up with the money to distribute it.
Counting on the Middle Class
Written by: Roy D. Adler, Tuesday 04 November 2008 - 09:00 AM 0 Comments
Pepperdine University marketing professor Roy Adler helps U.S. businesses take some of the guesswork out of finding customers around the world.
Baseball Whiffs When Setting Salaries
Written by: Tom Jacobs, Thursday 16 October 2008 - 11:40 AM 0 Comments
As one team after another gets eliminated in the baseball playoffs, no doubt many fans are grousing that certain strikeout- or error-prone players are getting paid too much. New research suggests one likely reason for this disconnect between an athlete’s paycheck and performance.
Scary Cinema Verité
Written by: Ryan Blitstein, Thursday 16 October 2008 - 09:00 AM 0 Comments
A documentary film warns that America’s fiscal policies are a looming disaster as Wall Street melts down in real time.
The Rational Ruffian: Why Crime Pays
Written by: Lindsey McCormack, Wednesday 08 October 2008 - 09:00 AM 0 Comments
A Miller-McCune.com interview with the authors of the new book Economic Gangsters: Corruption, Violence and the Poverty of Nations
Market Failure
Written by: Ryan Blitstein, Saturday 27 September 2008 - 07:00 AM 0 Comments
Two professors explain why small government, loose regulations and an over-reliance on markets eventually cost taxpayers.
Mother Nature's Sum
Written by: Matt Jenkins, Wednesday 24 September 2008 - 07:00 AM 0 Comments
Scientists are working to put economic value on the natural world, hoping to create ecosystem-services markets that protect the environment. But are they really just putting out a contract on Mother Nature?
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