Cash cowed Law of the lend Second-hand suits In ratings heaven Trimmed hedges Betting the house ReprintsOn sensible reckoning, for example, agricultural land in Alabama was a steal in the 1810s.
It reckoned, for example, that income inequality knocked ten percentage points off cumulative GDP growth in Mexico between 1990 and 2010, nine points off Britain's growth and up to seven points off America's.
Britain's National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, which assesses the cost-effectiveness of new medicines that might be paid for by the country's National Health Service, reckons, for example, that abiraterone is too expensive to justify the extra months of life it brings.
In fact, they've just published their report on reducing energy use, and after setting out their ideas (they reckon, for example, that giving people detailed feedback and suggestions on energy use will reduce it overall) announced they're going to test at least some of their ideas, in randomised controlled trials, before implementing them, to find out if they work.
By what preposterous reckoning is (for example) a meditation on an Italian bean a literary concern?
But by that reckoning, electricity, for example, would be a clear loser since it takes many more BTUs of steam to produce a BTU of electricity; the point being that the comparatively higher dollar value of electric power trumps the dollar value of coal or other energy inputs.
Uganda, for example, reckons farmers got 5-15% more for their crops after publishing price and market information more widely.
Dr Collis, for example, reckons that only a quarter to a third of all protein targets are amenable to efficient crystallisation and structure-based design.
Banco Espirito Santo, for example, reckons synergies could be worth 16 euros per Kabel Deutschland share for Vodafone, versus 8 to 10 euros a share for Liberty.
Dani Rodrik of Princeton University, for example, reckons that manufacturing and private investment have hardly budged despite a decade of rising incomes.
