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Famine is not usually caused by the absence of food
In 1987, the Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen showed that many famines are not caused by…
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San Francisco Marathon
Grethe and I ran the San Francisco Marathon yesterday. This was a training run for both…
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Fructose and obesity
Another paper has been published showing that fructose (a sugar that naturally occurs in fruit), when…
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Customers don’t know what they will want
Quentin Stafford-Fraser debunks the idea that businesses (or the IT shops of a business) should be…
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Recycle your bike
So it sounds as if everyone in London has taken to their bikes since the terrorist…
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If you had a billion dollars
There were two separate calls today for the creation of two separate $1 billion trust funds:…
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Cycling Economist
Stephanie Flanders is a cyclist, and the economics editor of Newsnight. In this article in the…
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The economics of the cruise ship
Bryan Caplan discusses the economics of a cruise ship as a metaphor for trade and labour…
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The effectiveness of aid agencies
There are people who think that there should not be a significant expansion of aid to…
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Famine in Niger
More than 2 and a half million people are at risk from starvation in Niger, because…
