The Shipping Industry Needs to Deliver Cleaner Cargo Ships, or We’re All Sunk
Delivering on demand for lower-emissions vessels could be the industry’s most arduous journey of all.
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That’s Not MY Greenhouse Gas!
Climate pacts like the Paris Accord do little because they focus on in-country greenhouse gas emissions, not ones based on consumption.
Read more...More Signs Brexit Negotiations Coming Apart
More less than encouraging news on the Brexit front.
Read more...Trump’s “$250 Billion” of China Trade Deals: As Usual, Hype Greatly Exceeds Reality
Trump’s much ballyhooed China trade deal gives way less than meets the eye.
Read more...European Worries About Isolationist Trends
European leaders ponder how to defend internationalism. They realize that the response to the crisis created innocent losers. But what now?
Read more...Extreme Poverty Cut in Half? Only in the Minds of the Capitalists
The much-touted fall in extreme poverty is more the result of bad or cherry-picked metrics than real progress.
Read more...Illicit Financial Outflows from Developing Countries Grow
New GIF report shows that illicit financial outflows (IFFs) from developing countries, already at alarming levels, continue to grow rapidly.
Read more...Falling Pound Might Not Bring UK Trade Balance Boost
More confirmation that a cheaper pound won’t help the UK’s trade balance.
Read more...40.3 Million Slaves: Challenging the Hypocrisy of Modern Slavery Statistics
Reports on slavery whitewash how European countries foster inequality and exploitation, as well as try to impose their values.
Read more...Outsource or Not: A Serious Misreading of Coase
What Coase really said about oursourcing, and why that matters.
Read more...EU Borders: Walking Backwards from Northern Ireland to Cyprus
The UK still has no realistic answer to the problem that the Northern Ireland border poses to Brexit.
Read more...UK Leaders Starting to Crack as Brexit Realities Finally Sink In
Brexit bravaura is scarce in evidence in Whitehall.
Read more...Measuring Racial Segregation in Urban Consumption Using Online Activity
We use restaurant reviews posted to Yelp to study segregation of consumption along racial and ethnic lines in New York City
Read more...Enlightenment Then, Enlightenment Now
On the role of the Scottish Enlightenment.
Read more...UK Oil And Gas Costs To Rise 100% If Brexit Fails
A concrete example of why a disorderly Brexit is not a good idea.
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