Journalist Matt Hamblen offers anecdotal evidence from the CTIA wireless conference that mobile phones can dramatically increase the economic mobility of the poor. Among other things, cell phones can end the economic isolation of rural villages, increasing their access to competitive markets for both what they buy and what they sell. And access is exploding: Nepal, one of the poorest countries on earth, has 42 subscribers for every 100 citizens.
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Professor Dieter Helm (Oxford) is a very fine fly fisherman, and an even better economist. If you haven’t done so, take a look at his new book “The Carbon Crunch: How We Are Getting Climate Change Wrong — and How to Fix It” for a bit of unconventional wisdom. He argues that politicians and the general public have not shown any real interest in addressing climate change. Helm argues that places like Europe should focus on setting a price for carbon that would cover consumption (and not just production), and that fracking could be a good “bridge” technology for reducing consumption of coal. The book is readable and insightful for those interested in the inside track on climate policy. 
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