Michael Reid

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Economists have since confirmed that there’s a relationship between productivity and keeping cool. William Nordhaus of Yale divided the world into cells, by lines of latitude and longitude, and plotted each one’s climate, output and population: the hotter the average temperature, he found, the less productive people could be. According to Geoffrey Heal of Columbia University and Jisung Park of Harvard, a hotter-than-average year is bad for productivity in hot countries,
Fifty Things that Made the Modern Economy
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