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August 30, 2007

| The Arc of the World >>

Dark, Ethereal, Floating Heavenward

A major challenge in economic policy is figuring out how to make people “see” externalities — the costs of their decisions that they don’t directly pay for, but instead pass on to society as a whole.

Well, what if every externality was a black balloon?

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Posted August 30, 2007 at 5:40 | Comments (0) | Permasnark
File under: Briefly Noted, Snarkpolicy
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