flâneur

Alayna Thomas

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  • Consensus estimates of $/QALY in developed countries, the economic value of a quality-adjusted life-year, are > US$200,000 (Buckley et al., 2019), so 0.015 QALY is worth ∼ US$3000. That is the mean economic value, to developed countries of origin, of the mental health gains accrued by each tourist who takes an African wildlife holiday. It is a transfer to country-of-origin national economies, additional to any gains perceived by each individual tourist.
    Hidden economic counterflows in post-COVID international wildlife tourism - ScienceDirect
  • Starting [at a young age] he’s read everything that he could find about business. The subject that interests him, he’s read newspapers, biographies, trade press. He went over to his grandfather who was a grocer and he read the progressive grocer magazine, and he read articles on how to stock a meat department... What he’s really done is he’s created this immense vertical filing cabinet in his brain of layers and layers and layers of files of information that he can draw back on now for more than 70 years worth of data. placeholder
    Curius / Onboarding