I went to uni for Eco and lasted 1.5 as
I found econ really really boring.
Not exact matches
Finding the present value of a perpetuity (infinite revenue stream) is fundemental to finance /
econ and you are correct that is based on limits.
You'd think the politics blog would cover this angle; instead I
found it over at at the
econ / wonk blog:
Drivers will
find it easy to get a lot of mileage in the Fit, but there's also an «
Econ» button to make that process even easier.
Along with power windows and the similar amenities you should
find in any vehicle these days, the Accord also comes with a push button start and
ECON button.
But really, the only use I could
find for it was to get the thing away in Normal or Sport before flicking it to
Econ on highways and freeways for use with the cruise.
Econ detuned the throttle and shifted high, but I never
found it annoying to drive in this mode.
Crack open any
Econ 101 textbook, and you'll likely
find at least a chapter devoted to the Efficient Market Hypothesis, which posits that in markets with large numbers of participants, low transaction costs, and freely available information, it is virtually impossible to «beat the market.»
I
found myself becoming very curious whether economists who support Sir Nicholas's social discount rate of zero, such as
econ bloggers John Quiggin and Brad DeLong, identify themselves as pro-choice or pro-life, and whether they had considered the Stern Report from this angle.