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More Than You Ever Wanted To Know About Volatility Swaps

Explores volatility and variance swaps, their properties, uses for trading and hedging volatility exposure, and methods for replication and valuation using options, while addressing practical challenges and implications of volatility skews.

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rates are much higher in those US states that levy charges on container sales,

Vaclav Smil • Making the Modern World: Materials and Dematerialization

The Value of a Whale: On the Illusions of Green Capitalism

Adrienne Buller

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It’s simple: water utilities are required to announce to the feds only their quarterly averages.

Elizabeth Royte • Bottlemania: Big Business, Local Springs, and the Battle over America's Drinking Water

These data make a strong case that, as human social networks grow, they necessarily lead to systems that require fewer resources per person, and produce more per person. In other words, the benefits of scale for human groups have always been there.