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Whatever the explanation, should this high demand for economics raise concerns...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Miron | Title: Economic Surplus | 6/2/2008 | See Source »

...this paternalism implies too great a concern with the undergraduate salesmen, and insufficient regard for the undergraduate purchaser. Monopolies rarely care for their customers’ needs too well, and free competition here will benefit the buyer. Where demand is large, in laundry service for example, competing agencies should be encouraged as protection for the buyer...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: ...Who Help Themselves | 6/1/2008 | See Source »

...Where demand cannot support two firms, in birthday cake sales, for example, the problem is more difficult. The best expedient would seem to be allowing all prospective cakemen to compete for the franchise each year, forcing the incumbent to show that he was providing quality and service at a fair price. If not, bureaucratic stagnation could easily set in, and overshadow the fine effects that the creation of Harvard Student Agencies, Inc., should have on the student employment field here...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: ...Who Help Themselves | 6/1/2008 | See Source »

...have a minimum of six "home-grown" players in their squads, who are required to have been trained by their club, or by another in the same country, for at least three years between the ages of 15 and 21, regardless of their nationality. But UEFA doesn't demand that local players actually take the field, as Blatter's more draconian FIFA proposal would. He has said he would push ahead on making that far more visible change with "consultation, not confrontation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A 'Foreigner' Quota for Soccer? | 5/30/2008 | See Source »

...good alternatives to fossil fuels, not the ersatz variety in which we convert corn to ethanol and then face soaring food prices. We need to harness vast amounts of solar power and start storing the carbon dioxide emitted by coal-fired power plants underground. We need green buildings that demand less energy for heating and cooling, and automobiles that get vastly more miles per gallon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Uncle Sam Needs to Solve the Energy Crisis | 5/29/2008 | See Source »

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