Economy Of Scale Related Podcasts

Russ Roberts Podcast on Trade and Economies of Scale

This article summarizes an extremely important podcast by economist Russ Roberts. The basic idea is that the gains from trade increase the larger the market becomes and the less self-sufficient a group of people becomes. As well, the concept of "would trade still make sense if we were all the same" is addressed.

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Podcast: Vote Solar's Adam Browning & PG&E's Proposal

Yesterday I caught up with Adam Browning, Co-Founder and Executive director of Vote Solar, a non-profit with the expressed goal of building the economies of scale necessary to bring down solar’s costs. We talked about PG&E’s 500MW proposal presented to California’s Public Utilities Commission last week, how it compares to recent similar proposals,

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