Maximizing Monopoly Profits: Equating Marginal Cost and Revenue

Learn how monopolies maximize profits by equating marginal cost and revenue. Discover the economic principles guiding price and output decisions in monopoly markets.
Mises Institute

Austrian Economics Advances in the QJAE

New scholarly work is appearing regularly in the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics. Here are some articles from the latest issue.
Yahoo Finance

Why your utility bills are out of control: It’s not just the arctic blast, or AI

Did your latest energy bill give you sticker shock? You’re not alone. Energy costs are surging nationwide and outstripping overall inflation. Last year, consumer prices rose 2.7%, but electricity ...
New York Post

Here’s what Mikie Sherrill’s state of emergency for utility costs will really do for New Jersey

Shortly after New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill was sworn into office Tuesday, she signed two executive orders declaring a state of emergency to “freeze” utility costs and rapidly ramp up power ...
Center for American Progress

Electric and Natural Gas Utility Rate Hikes Tracker

Analysis finds that since January 2025, more than 112 million electric utility customers and more than 52 million natural gas utility customers across 49 states and Washington, D.C., will face ...
Newsweek

Map Shows States with Most—and Least—Expensive Utility Bills

New data has revealed which states have to pay the most, and least, for utility bills, showing the significant amount households have to pay to cover the costs. According to the third-party bill ...
The New York Times

She Has Taken 30 Years to Write a 7-Part Novel About 1 Day. It’s a Sensation.

The Danish author Solvej Balle’s experimental opus reframes the tedium of contemporary life as a source of unexpected wonders. Solvej Balle in her garden in Denmark.Credit...Giulia Mangione for The ...
The New Yorker

Solvej Balle’s Novels Rewire the Time Loop

Before Tara Selter, the protagonist of “On the Calculation of Volume,” a series by the Danish author Solvej Balle, gets trapped in a time loop, she is one half of a unit called T. & T. Selter. It’s a ...
New York Post

Utility bills spike as power-hungry AI data centers boom, Bank of America report finds

The rapid rollout of power-hungry AI data centers could be straining the US energy grid and causing utility bills to spike – and prices could get worse in the coming months, according to economists.
The Business Journals

Rhode Island AG challenges utility's ratepayer relief calculation, demands full compensation

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Preview this article 1 min The utility in 2022 agreed not ...
Times Union

New Yorkers see higher utility rates as state struggles to manage affordability

Gov. Kathy Hochul has made developing new nuclear energy a priority to meet clean energy mandates after experts started to question New York’s ability to meet the mandates of the 2019 Climate Act.