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  • August 6, 2008 at 2:34 pm may b lolcats can handle eco-nomics bettur!

    Gas prices - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • "And a Cardassian landowner who's starving to death wouldn't be willing to invest in it, but he might be willing to sell it to somebody like Deru, in order to stay alive," Ro said, showing a keen grasp of the eco-nomics.

    Demons Of Air And Darkness DeCandido, Keith R. A. 2001

  • Nowadays they're all into agribusiness and have degrees in eco-nomics or business.

    The Metrognome and Other Stories Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1990

  • Of course, the threat of filthy water is a major concern; however, ecosystems also are in the eco-nomics of purifying the air and water.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

  • What is worse, huge debt mirrors even deeper problems, where the nexus between eco-nomics and eco-logy becomes cristal clear.

    Ambit Gambit Jeff Wall 2010

  • He is credited as being the first to use the term eco-nomics to describe the point where the business of packaging, innovation, and sustainability converge.

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2010

  • Advocates of "eco-nomics" say that valuing "natural capital" could help protect nature from rising human populations, pollution and climate change that do not figure in conventional measures of wealth such as gross domestic product (GDP) or gross national product (GNP).

    CommonDreams.org Headlines 2008

  • Using the "eco-nomics" label to refer to ecological economics blurs that line.

    Environmental Economics 2008

  • I hate the term "eco-nomics" to refer to ecological economics.

    Environmental Economics 2008

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