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Climate action good for business

More stringent occupational licensing is associated with less competition, higher prices, and no increase in demand or consumer satisfaction

As the world's population ages, Alzheimer's and dementia are set to create a staggering $14.5 trillion economic crisis, with informal caregiving placing an overwhelming burden on both high and low-income countries…

Mark Cuban has praise for Harris' economic proposals and plenty of questions about Trump's

The right to switch off when outside work is key to productivity and could boost the UK's economic growth, Downing Street has said

Moralization intensifies as economic inequality grows

Pushing baby booms to boost economic growth amounts to a Ponzi scheme

SaaS Economics

What Kenyan protests tell about economic management and the politics of reforms

The 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, the key legislative achievement in the first year of the Donald Trump administration, substantially raised the federal debt and disproportionately increased incomes for the most affluent

Scientists discover new plants that could lead to ‘climate-proof’ chocolate: « The new species, discovered in the rain forests of South America, are closely related to Theobroma cacao, the tree that bears cocoa beans which are of tremendous economic importance

Energy economics and rocket science with Casey Handmer

China is slowly joining the economic war against Russia?

Rates Insensitivity in the Economic Downcycle

US economic growth increased last quarter to a healthy 2.8% annual rate

Wages in the Global South are 87–95% lower than wages for work of equal skill in the Global North

Study of 156,000 UK residents finds that urban residents score the lowest in social and economic satisfaction and well-being, also exhibiting greater psychological inequality

All the existential risk, none of the economic impact

Nurses in Michigan reported improved conditions in the 2023 Michigan Nurses Study conducted by the University of Michigan

What happened to the Artificial-Intelligence Revolution? So far the technology has had almost no economic impact

Amorphous semiconductors lack a defined finite unit cell. Still, they pose an economic alternative to crystalline semiconductors, e.g. in solar cells

Herpes infections take major economic toll globally: Research finds HSV-2 and HSV-1 infections and their consequences were estimated to cost $35.3 billion globally in 2016

Companies mitigating climate change can lower their cost of capital and build investor trust by disclosing and addressing their environmental impact

Comparing costs and climate impacts of various electric vehicle charging systems across the United States

The expansion of the Child Tax Credit in 2021 through President Biden’s American Rescue Plan led to improved housing affordability for low-income families – The expansion reduced parents’ past-due rent/mortgages and their reports of potential moves due to difficulties affording rent/mortgages.

The worst IT catastrophe ever hit less than 1% of all Microsoft Windows devices — “The broad economic and societal impacts reflect the use of CrowdStrike by enterprises that run many critical services”: Microsoft

Study: Multivariate analysis indicates that economic elites and organised groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on US government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence.

The economics of a Postgres free tier

International scheme to tax billionaires' wealth technically feasible

New research suggests that people may expect to engage in more unethical behavior when they perceive higher levels of economic inequality in society

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