economics
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Australia’s Great Barrier Reef Has Been Valued At A Whopping $56 Billion
With the Great Barrier Reef under unprecedented environmental stress, a new report is raising the alarm in terms of its potential economic loss. Valued at $56 billion, the largest living structure on Earth is now deemed “too big to fail”.
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We Can Learn A Lot From The Economics Of Star Trek
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the hugely popular sci-fi franchise Star Trek — arguably one of the profoundly influential fictional series of the last century. It’s also the 500th anniversary of Sir Thomas More’s classic work, Utopia, offering his vision of an ideal society. For Manu Saadia, that’s a fitting coincidence: “The world…
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Most US Ports Are Still Woefully Unprepared To Welcome The New Generation Of Megaships
On the day after Christmas, the largest container ship to call at a US port will stop by the Port of Los Angeles, the largest port in the US. But it’s largely just a PR event: Like many US ports, the Port of LA is not completely ready to welcome this size megaship, which will…
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Are We Recycling Too Much Of Our Trash?
A recent credible study suggests the amount of waste Americans dispose in landfills each year is over twice what the EPA had been estimating.