May 1, 2013
Higher state pension ages are not only possible (given longer life expectancy) and desirable (given the fiscal costs of state pensions) but later retirement should, in fact, lead to better average health in retirement.
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May 1, 2013
Denmark’s fat tax remains the leading example of an ambitious anti-obesity policy being tested in the real world. The results failed to match the predictions of computer models and the failed experiment has since been largely swept under the carpet in public health circles.
April 1, 2013
By 2050 the world will need to produce almost twice as much food and feed in the same agricultural area as today. Modern genetic engineering – with crops that use water, nutrients, energy, and land more efficiently – is one of the keys.
March 1, 2013
With public confidence in the European project waning, the idea of initiating a ‘civil dialogue’ with the public emerged in the mid-1990s as a way of bolstering the EU’s democratic legitimacy. Citizens have been ventriloquised through ‘sock puppet’ charities, think tanks and other ‘civil society’ groups which have been hand-picked and financed by the European Commission (EC).
January 1, 2013
The decision by the American antitrust regulator to acquit Google from charges of manipulating its search engine for anti-competitive purposes provides useful input for European regulators.
November 1, 2012
We need an entirely new approach to regulation across the financial sector which is based on transparency, market discipline and simple and stable legal frameworks.
June 1, 2012
Every year, between 180 and 260 people in Sweden die as a result of antibiotic resistance. Responsibility for increasing antibiotic resistance is often placed on doctors and consumers. It is argued that customer-oriented physicians and self-serving patients are driving the problem through increased prescribing.
June 1, 2012
Measurement of the shadow economy is notoriously difficult as it requires estimation of economic activity that is deliberately hidden from official transactions. Surveys typically understate the size of the shadow economy but econometric techniques can now be used to obtain a much better understanding of its size.
May 1, 2012
For the past 20 years, Sweden has had considerably freer alcohol rules, not least thanks to EU membership in 1995. But injuries, violence and death have not grown as expected.