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Contends that the NHS’s claimed need for a 4% real annual budget increase to ‘stand still’ is commonly attributed to Baumol’s cost disease, and discusses how rising wages and productivity differences affect healthcare costs.
A polemical piece argues the UK could become poorer by policy choices—citing food import dependence (around 40% of Britain’s food) and climate risks to supply—as a warning against measures that would reduce domestic production or trade.
A short commentary on Thomas Piketty’s Global Justice Report proposing a fully quantified global transition combining redistribution, international financial reform, energy-system transformation and consumption shifts, placing inequality and sufficiency at the centre of climate and development scenarios.
An opinion piece argues that the absence of capitalism can cause catastrophic outcomes, citing an artisanal goldmine collapse in the Central African Republic that reportedly killed more than 100 people after tunnels collapsed.
Hotel prices have surged in parts of Europe ahead of a total eclipse, with Reykjavík seeing average room rates for the key night rise to $793 (£587), a 98% increase versus the same day last year, per travel data.