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Greater price transparency will reduce medical costs

                    Price transparency is an obvious driver of effective market dynamics: the more buyers and sellers know about the actual cost factors underlying the prices of competing products and services, the better equipped they will be to compare their...

SE Asian countries need to focus on knowledge economy

                        A global crossroads boasting young, tech-savvy populations and far-flung trade connections, Southeast Asia is well positioned to become an economic hub. But to do this national governments must first lay the groundwork by embracing policies...

TES GeoPolicy Editor McGroarty on the Tech Metal Age

                  Address by Dan McGroarty, TES GeoPolicy Editor     Human history has been defined by our ability to obtain and use minerals, from the Stone Age, Copper Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age, to the Industrial Revolution (steel and coal) to the Jet Age...

Ban eating on public transit to fight obesity?

                          Obesity is clearly weighing on everyone’s mind (eh?) with a flurry of opinion and commentary, all of it predictably anti-.  At issue is how far the government should go in curtailing individual liberty to combat fast-expanding...