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GDP and Well-Being: A fraught relationship.
More or less since 2008 it's been popular to criticise the focus on GDP per capita as a public policy mistake, and a resurgence of scep...
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Warning: this post contains graphs. Many wonderful graphs. According to conventional (read: conservative) wisdom, the Left has a problem...
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Delta. To my knowledge not an airline of great renown, as evidenced by the fact that less than one in four seats on my incredibly cheap tran...
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I recently ordered a 'bunch' of groceries for delivery from Fresh Direct, the New York equivalent of Ocado in London. Over packaging...
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