Hog farms in this state are a source of pollution to our rivers and ground water. Obviously, the polluted rivers are degraded for other purposes. Many of these farms are contract operations for corporations such as Smithfield. The author describes three ways to motivate such operators to upgrade their facilities in order to reduce pollution. In addition, there is the ultimate remedy of simply placing a moratorium on growth of this industry. Choose one of these four options: regulation, Corrective taxes, tradable pollution permits, or outright prohibition regardless of opportunity costs. Propose your approach to the problem, or counter someone else's approach.

Minneapolis federal reserve bank economist edward prescott estimates the elasticity of the u.s. labor supply to be 3. given this elasticity, what would be the impact of funding the social security program with tax increases on the number of hours worked and on the amount of taxes collected to fund social security?

Consider the scenario below and let us know if you believe lauren smith's actions to be ethical. let us know why or why not. lauren smith is the controller for sports central, a chain of sporting goods stores. she has been asked to recommend a site for a new store. lauren has an uncle who owns a shopping plaza in the area of town where the new store is to be located, so she decides to contact her uncle about leasing space in his plaza. lauren also contacted several other shopping plazas and malls, but her uncle’s store turned out to be the most economical place to lease. therefore, lauren recommended locating the new store in her uncle’s shopping plaza. in making her recommendation to management, she did not disclose that her uncle owns the shopping plaza. if management decided to go with lauren's uncle's plaza, what additional information would be needed in the financial statements?

Why are there so many types of diversion programs for juveniles