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Why Do We Need Public Parks

The weekend is coming again. My girlfriend asked me to go to Silver Fall State Park. I immediately made some excuses such as the trip is long, and it is raining day. Finally, my girlfriend told me that at least … Continue reading

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Gas Station Game Theory: Trigger Strategy

Image there is two companies in an oligopoly competing with homogeneous goods. In this case, lets use Shell and Exon mobile gas companies. Lets imaging that these are the only two gas companies in America and that they are a cartel. … Continue reading

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Sunk Costs and Utility

As the school year begins to wind down, I have begun to hear seniors discuss their future beyond OSU. A friend of mine, a computer science and mathematics double major shared with me an experience he had applying for a … Continue reading

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Public Wifi

When you go to Starbucks to get 5-dollar drink and sit down to do some homework you don’t think about the WiFi being slow. That is until it slows down enough for you to get frustrated. Public wifi is not … Continue reading

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OSU & the tragedy of the commons

Let’s think of the Oregon State University as it’s own community with its own public resources.  Resources such as the Valley library, Dixon recreation, Football tickets, CAPS, office hours, and so on; all of these are available to all Oregon … Continue reading

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I’m Internalizing My Externality

  According to this article I am doing you all a favor.

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Game Theory and Policy

Most discussion of policy analysis and economics centers around two things: inequality and the distribution of efficient market outcomes, and market failures or instances where markets fail to operate efficiently.  In all of this, however, we assume that one economic … Continue reading

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Class Cancelled Monday, Feb. 10

I will post on Game Theory and Policy here Monday or Tuesday.

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The EPA and Wood Burning Stoves

I read an article in Forbes last week about new EPA regulations that ban wood burning stoves that put out more than 12 micrograms of particulate matter per cubic meter of air. As a point of reference, the article notes … Continue reading

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Curb Appeal

We’ve all seen them, and there seem to be a large number of them around Corvallis particularly.  I’m talking about houses that are painted ridiculous colors.  Not only do these neon green or blue trimmed houses cause an eyesore for … Continue reading

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