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WEA Commentaries
Volume 11, Issue 3
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An egalitarian carbon tax: revenue-neutral and dual policy package
     Fausto Corvino

WHAT IS ECOLOGY? What Economics Should Have Been
     Gregory A Daneke

The Theory of Competition of F.A.Hayek as an Inspirer of the Neoliberal Turn of the 1980s
     Arturo Hermann

Don Webber discusses his book, How to enhance your re- search: 100 practical tips for academics

5,000 voters and 14,000 votes for the Dynamite Prize in first two weeks

With a maximum of three votes per person, the total votes cast in in the Dynamite Prize in Economics poll passed the 14,000 mark last night.  This turnout, which gathered pace in the second week, exceeds the organizers’ expectations.  Economics and finance blogs are taking a keen interest; and financial journalists, both online and off and in a number of countries and languages, have begun reporting the contest.

Here is an article from the Business Insider, which features photographs and dossiers of each of the finalists, The Dynamite Prize for Economics will go to the 3 guys who blew up the world.

Journalists have interepted the prize as a hopeful sign that within the economics profession there now exists a growing element with the view that economists, no less than other professionals, should accept moral responsibility for the consequences of their intellectual acts.