But that 1.8m starting point is mainly from the land and the upper reaches of the sea.

ECONOMIST: Biodiversity

For, without specifically setting out to do so, it demystifies the land-owning upper classes simply by showing them how to survive.

ECONOMIST: English snobbery

The indistinct divide between the highest court in the land and the upper house of Parliament has long baffled both British and foreign observers.

ECONOMIST: Britain��s top judges leave home

He bought the building as a family home and fixer-upper in 1992, when the TriBeca neighborhood was still a no-mans-land.

FORBES: 75 Murray Street and Polaroid

It benefits the upper and upper-middle classes, the argument goes, by the strict standards it imposes to protect the land: growth control, open space, maintained eco-systems and the preservation of town or village character.

ECONOMIST: Preserving farmland