The Economist: Staying Alive – 47

The Economist số 47
Từ năm 2000, tỉ lệ tự sát ở Mỹ đã tăng 18%, việc này không những hệ trọng về mặt dân số mà còn về chính trị. Tuy nhiên tỉ lệ này trên toàn cầu đã trên đà giảm, Và còn nhiều cách hơn nữa để giảm tỉ lệ này thêm. Vậy các cách đó là gì? Và tỉ lệ này ảnh hưởng như thế nào đến chính trị.
Cùng đón đọc số mới nhất, The Economist 47 – STAYING ALIVE.
This Week On The Economist No.47:

Why suicide is falling around the world, and how to bring it down more

The suicide rate in America is up by 18% since 2000. This is not merely a tragedy; it matters politically, too. The rise is largely among white, middle-aged, poorly educated men in areas that were left behind by booms and crushed by busts. Their deaths are a symptom of troubles to which some see President Donald Trump as the answer. Those troubles should not be ignored.

What to expect from a no-deal Brexit

If no new actions intervene, the view will be quite different on March 30th next year. On March 29th, Britain’s withdrawal from the eu under Article 50 of the eu Treaty, set out two years previously, will become a fact of European law; in Britain the European Communities Act of 1972 will be automatically repealed under the terms of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act of 2018

Some international regulators have been captured by producer interests
It is a lesson straight from undergraduate economics. Do not give the regulated power over the regulators, unless you want consumers to lose out and producers to game the system. The merger of water suppliers and their regulators in Britain in 1973 provides a good example. Water companies fiddled their pollution targets; Britain’s rivers and beaches became the dirtiest in Europe. After the separation of firms and supervisors in 1989, Britain soon had some of the cleanest rivers on the continent.