Weekly Economic News Roundup and apple development
Food
The Story of a New Apple (Called the SnapDragon)

Similar in some ways to Apple’s iPhone 12, Cornell University has developed two new apples that reflect years of research and development.

COVID-19 vaccine development
Regulatory Policy
The COVID-19 Vaccine’s Distribution Dilemmas

Even if all works out with with a fast-track compressed timeline for developing the COVID-19 vaccine, we will have distribution dilemmas to resolve.

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Economic Thinkers
Where Illegal Activities Give the GDP New Highs

Adding together the goods and services we produce in the GDP, statisticians wonder if they should include illegal economic activities.

Weekly Economic News Roundup and Herb Kelleher and Southwest Airlines
Economic Ideas
How Southwest Helps Science

The low airfares and pleasant flying culture at Southwest Airlines have had an unexpected impact on the quality of scientific research.

Weekly economic news roundup and property rights for outer space
Business
How the U.S. Budget Takes Us to Another Galaxy

Within the discretionary spending slice of the government spending pie, research and development at the NSF is a tiny part of the federal budget.

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