Category: supersized

When New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced his proposed ban earlier this summer on sodas larger than 16 ounces, I lamented what I thought was a failure of the coverage. I couldn't find any good reporting on whether or not the ban would do what the mayor wanted--reduce obesity. Surely there must be research on this, I thought, but it wasn't easy to find in the coverage, most of which dealt with whether Bloomberg was being too schoolmarmish.

A couple of weeks later, I looked again, and I still could not find what I wanted to know.

Now a fine piece addressing these questions appears from what I'd consider an unlikely source: James Surowiecki, the economics...