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Fred Foldvary is a Lecturer in Economics at Santa Clara University, California, and a Research Fellow at The Independent Institute. U.S. Economic Calendar Economics at the Open Directory Project Economics textbooks on Wikibooks The Economists Economics A-Z Institutions and organizations Bureau of Labor Statistics - from the American Labor Department Center for Economic and Policy Research (USA) National Bureau of Economic Research (USA) - Economics material from the organization...
Jump to: navigation, search Santa Clara University is a private, co-educational Roman Catholic university in the United States. ...
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In his PhD dissertation (George Mason University, 1992), “Public Goods and Private Communities”, he attempted to apply the theory of Public goods and Industrial organizations to a range of private communities. His research interests include “ethical philosophy”, governance, land economics and public finance. Jump to: navigation, search George Mason University George Mason Universitys Fairfax campus George Mason University, also referred to by locals and students as simply Mason or GMU, is an institution of higher learning in the Commonwealth of Virginia, with campuses in Arlington, Fairfax, and Prince William County, Virginia, all...
Jump to: navigation, search In economics, a public good is a good that is hard or even impossible to produce for private profit, because the market fails to account for its large beneficial externalities. ...
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Public finance (government finance) is the field of economics that deals with budgeting the revenues and expenditures of a public sector entity, usually government. ...
Foldavi is also concerned about slavery in chocolate production. He advocates among other things, compulsory labels on chocolate products or on the shelves where chocolate products are sold. This would Foldavi states, decrease the demand for chocolate products, which are not certified free of slave labour. Manufacturers and suppliers would therefore apply pressure to ensure that cocoa they used was certified slave-free and farms using slaves would lose business. The above is not a market intervention as it enables customers who oppose slavery to make informed choices.[1] For more information see Chocolate and slavery. Jump to: navigation, search Chocolate and slavery are alleged to be linked in contemporary chocolate plantations in west Africa. ...
Books - “The Half-Life of Policy Rationales: How Technology Affects Old Policy Issues” (ed, with Daniel Klein, 2003)
- “Dictionary of Free Market Economics” (1998)
- “Public Goods and Private Communities” (1994)
- “The Soul of Liberty” (1980).
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