Economists Without Borders

Here's a letter sent yesterday to the producers of the radio program "Marketplace":

You report that the Union of Concerned Scientists worries about the fact that "11 states each spend more than a billion dollars a year importing coal from other states" ("States spend big on importing coal," May 18).  These scientists conclude that states whose residents import a good deal of energy from outside of their respective states are not getting energy efficiently – that these energy imports are...