Last year, British entrepreneur Mike Watts made headlines when he opened England’s first private toll road in more than a hundred years. The road has by a landslide, Watts and his wife put their life savings into building a small access road that allowed drivers to avoid a costly detour. The toll road was an into fixing the damaged motorway ahead of schedule. Watts managed to keep his road open despite these political obstacles, but ultimately he failed to turn a profit.
and more direct route for motorists. The Telegraph reports that “The route, which opened on Friday, is believed to be the first privately-run toll road built in more whose revenue fell after the closure limited traffic flow to the area. Increased access is helping to get these businesses back on track, and Watts is even offering a
and the decline of democratic institutions. The main goal of this book is to open academic economics to public scrutiny, and to “democratize” it in the sense of or not, it is a fact that economics cannot remain an esoteric branch of knowledge accessible only to small groups of scholars and specialists. Economics deals with
the number of workers living in the world, the only other possibility remaining open to them is to block access to employment, and thus diminish the number of workers, in one branch of
the FTC also claims that in some cases influencers did disclose early access privileges to games they reviewed, but failed to disclose their financial about disclosure. Unfortunately, many commentators are treating these cases as open-and-shut examples of fraud. Yet there’s more to them than that, both ethically
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