The city [WDC] has built about 20 miles of bike lanes in the past five years, but despite that, the portion of D.C. residents who bike to work peaked in 2017 and has decreased each year since, falling from 5 percent to 3 percent. So who are these lanes for? And: Across town, on South […]

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21.11.2024

New Zealand's Regulatory Standards Act - Marginal REVOLUTION

From the Antipodes: “To lift productivity and wages, ACT’s coalition agreement includes a commitment to pass a Regulatory Standards Act. “The Bill will codify principles of good regulatory practice for existing and future regulations,” says Mr Seymour. “It seeks to bring the same level of discipline to regulation that the Public Finance Act brings to […]

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21.11.2024

That was then, this is now - Marginal REVOLUTION

President-elect Barack Obama is strongly considering Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to head the Environmental Protection Agency, a Cabinet post, Democratic officials told Politico. Here is the Politico story from 2008. Via Glenn.

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21.11.2024

Wednesday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION

1. Can fiction improve you? 2. How people spent their time in the 1930s. 3. The delta in Russian nuclear doctrine ho hum. 4. 63 Chinese cuisines. 5. The world’s first AI street hawker. 6. Robot finishes a marathon in South Korea. 7. Reform coming to the NIH? 8. FT picks for best economics books […]

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