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Michael Roberts

Is Monopoly a Barrier to Hawai’i’s Ascent?

March 6, 2014

By Michael Roberts In 2012 Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize winning economist and Columbia University Business School Professor visited Hawaii to give the Stephen and…

Why are Hawai’i’s Electricity Prices So High?

Why are Hawai’i’s Electricity Prices So High?

March 6, 2014

By Michael Roberts Excluding rooftop solar, Hawai’i residential consumers pay an average of about 37 cents for a kilowatt-hour of electricity. Taking refrigerators, water heaters,…