This paper, about the amount of energy contained in fat people in the USA, can fuel a new level of contentiousness in the nation’s ongoing, highly opinionated debates about energy policy, and perhaps about other things: “How much energy is locked in the USA? Alternative metrics for characterising the magnitude of overweight and obesity derived […]
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Experimental economics: Trade an island for a debt
Paul V. Kane, described as “a former international security fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School”, published (in the New York Times) his idea to solve two nations’ economic problems in a single stroke. He suggests that the United States should sell Taiwan to China for one trillion dollars. (Thanks to investigator Jonas Nyman of the […]