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May 1, 2013
Published by IEA on May 1, 2013
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The Proof of the Pudding: Denmark’s Fat Tax Fiasco

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.
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April 1, 2013
Published by TIMBRO on April 1, 2013
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On Our Way to 9 Billion: Can Europe Afford to Lose Out on the Potential of GMOs?

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.
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March 1, 2013
Published by IEA on March 1, 2013
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Euro Puppets: The European Commission’s Remaking of Civil Society

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).
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June 1, 2012
Published by TIMBRO on June 1, 2012
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A World Waiting for Antibiotics: Six Reasons Why Antibiotics Resistance Plagues the World

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.
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June 1, 2012
Published by IEA on June 1, 2012
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The Shadow Economy

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.
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March 1, 2012
Published by TIMBRO on March 1, 2012
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Peak Whale, Peak Oil: On Oil and the Role of Private Property in Natural-resource Conservation

There are no historical examples of a raw material running out. Even if the available amount of certain raw materials is very limited and the demand for many of them, such as gold, has been high over the millennia, they have not run out. The price mechanism has ensured that supply met demand.
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