Weekly economic news roundup and China's social scoring system
Regulatory Policy
How a Social Score Gets You China’s Goods and Services

As China’s social scoring system develops, undesirable behavior like jaywalking could limit someone’s access to goods and services.

weekly roundup and tragedy of the commons and China's air pollution
Business
A Rarely Mentioned Cause of China’s Air Pollution

Because we tend to abuse and overuse publicly shared resources, the result is a tragedy of the commons that includes China’s air pollution.

Air Pollution India
Business
One City With More Air Pollution than Beijing

By Madeleine Vance, guest blogger and student at Kent Place School. On January 17th, the smog in Beijing was so thick that the sunrise was virtually played on television screens around the city. Around the same time, air pollution levels…

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