Are hundreds of young children visiting A&E because of alcohol? Plus, an update on the Trumptonshire economy. And has the mosquito killed half the people who have ever lived? Tim Harford presents.
Cato Daily Podcast - The Tragedy of Liberation
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Cato Daily Podcast - Dollarization in Ecuador
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Cato Daily Podcast - Overblown Fears over a Government Shutdown
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More or Less: Behind the Stats - WS MoreOrLess: Population explosion?
"We just shut our eyes to the fact that the world's population is increasing out of control." Is broadcaster and naturalist Sir David Attenborough right about global population projections? And Tim Harford wonders whether it's true that Scotland is home to 20% of the world's redheads. This programme was first broadcast on the BBC World Service.
More or Less: Behind the Stats - NHS hospital deaths
Tim Harford examines the claim that NHS hospital patients are 45% more likely to die than US ones. Is Sir David Attenborough right that the world's population is increasingly out of control? And are 20% of the world's redheads in Scotland? Plus, the story of the Hawthorne Experiment, one of the most famous studies in industrial history.
Cato Daily Podcast - Rethinking Nuclear Weapons Policy
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Cato Daily Podcast - Counterintuition on EPA, the ‘War on Coal’
A Looming Policy Disaster by Jason Scott Johnson, Regulation, Fall 2008.
An EPA War on Coal? by Richard L. Gordon, Regulation, Spring 2013
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Cato Daily Podcast - Next Fed Chair Will Be Another Insider
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Cato Daily Podcast - Disabled Americans Face New In-Home Care Rules
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