It seems an established empirical fact that Superfund sites lower local property values. Two recent literature reviews (Farber, 1998, Boyle and Kiel, 2001) report that published academic papers on the topic verify that point. The EPA’s approach assumes that all sites negatively impact property...

This paper argues, contrary to the standard interpretation, that money in Marx's theory is tied neither to bullion nor to any commodity basis. It is rather the sole social form of value autonomous from use-value. This is demonstrated by reference to Marx's account of the social functions of...

Economic orthodoxy has but a minimal interest in methodology. Heterodoxy is suspicious of dialectics. As exemplified recently in a book by John Rosenthal, even Marxism likes to eschew the notion of any more than a residual Hegelian influence in Marx and Marxist discourse. Bouncing off...

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that restrictions on independent political expenditures by corporations and labor unions are unconstitutional on First Amendment grounds (Citizens United v. FEC, 2010). In this paper, we test the hypothesis that the decision gave an electoral boost to...

Matching provisions in state clean elections acts have been ruled unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court on First Amendment grounds (Arizona Free Enterprise Club’s Freedom Club PAC v. Bennett, 2011). By modeling political speech as a costly advertising activity in an electoral contest, we...

We examine daily cross-market return interactions and downside risk between a US REIT returns index and the return indexes of twelve international REIT markets. These relationships are investigated for a period of normal REIT market conditions as well as for periods of inflating and collapsing...

A one year field trial was carried out on three adjacent unfertilised plots; an 18 year old grassland, a 14 year old established <i>Miscanthus</i> crop, and a 7 month old newly planted <i>Miscanthus</i> crop. Measurements of N₂O, soil temperature, water filled pore space (WFPS), and inorganic nitrogen...