Turkey's entire economic model is powered by construction and rent-seeking. So letting that kind of construction slide seems to be clearly at least part of the reason behind the devastation here. In the long run, or at least in the next three months, many hard questions will be asked," he says. "There will be some sort of a backlash"
Our correspondent visits town after devastated town. Poorly enforced building codes are one clear factor in the rising death toll—and a political backlash looms. Britain’s productivity problem is at least partly a problem with bad managers; we look at the substantial gains to be had from better-run companies. And the valuable data to come from an ambitious, national-scale sex survey.
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