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Posts Tagged ‘Joseph Stiglitz’

- Malthus: he’s back!

Posted in economics, national security, tagged , , , , on March 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »

. . . and on the front page of the Wall Street Journal, no less.
Commodities and basic resources (like water and good arable land) are in increasingly short supply worldwide, notes the Journal. And while we’ve managed to avoid the wholesale disasters Malthusians have regularly warned against in the two centuries since Thomas Malthus [...]

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paper or plastic?

Posted in media stories, tagged , , , , , on February 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

The New York Times reports today on the extraordinary impact that charging a 33c tax on plastic bags has had in Ireland. The bags are now all but gone from the country and no-one, it seems, is complaining.
Significantly, buying a plastic bag hasn’t been made illegal in Ireland. But soon after the tax [...]

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