Unintended Consequences, from the Concise Encyclopedia of Economics. The law of unintended consequences is at work always and everywhere. People outraged about high prices of plywood in areas devastated by hurricanes, for example, may advocate price controls to keep the prices closer to usual levels.
It can even keep eggs fresh for awhile without any refrigeration and extend refrigeration by a week at least. 1  Eggs can remain edible for even longer than a month, but freshness (egg yolk that sits firm and high, and a thick viscous egg white) will be noticeably less after two weeks.fter that, they'll be Grade A for another 2 weeks.   Eggs â¦ can remain edible for even longer than one month, but freshness (egg yolk that sits firm and high, and a thick viscous egg white) will be noticeably less after two weeks.   There is an expiration date on the carton.
Q: How long can eggs be left outside once they've been laid before being refrigerated? a: You will want to gather eggs every day, and refrigerate them as soon as they've been gathered. This keeps them freshest. However, in the good old days, of course, eggs were not refrigerated right away. That's surprising to many people! After all, milk that is not refrigerated will go bad, and it will do so pretty immediately... but not eggs. In fact, when a hen is laying eggs to hatch, it can take her about two weeks to gather a clutch large enough to incubate.