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Economics Links

Feb 3, 2014

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in Capitalism and Markets, Culture, Economic Development, Economics, Generations, Globalization, Health and Medicine, History, Human Progress, Links – Economics, Poverty, Race, Sociology, Trends: Economic, Trends: Social, Wealth and Income, Weatlh and Income Distribution

1. Brookings: Prospects for Ending Extreme Poverty by 2030 2. Carpe Diem: World trade and output both reached new all-time record highs in November and are nearly 10% above previous peaks 3. PBS Newshour: More than 200 million people were unemployed in the world in 2013 Worldwide, the number of unemployed people rose by 5…

Science and Technology Links (Environment Edition)

Feb 2, 2014

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I'm playing catchup with a backlog of links to be posted. This list pulls together a subsection of science and technology links dealing with the environment. 1. Bloomberg: Warring Dogmas Block Climate-Change Progress … In 1981, [Julian] Simon proposed a bet. [Paul] Ehrlich could name any five metals, and by the end of the decade,…

Science and Technology Links

Feb 1, 2014

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in Evolution, Gender and Sex, Health and Medicine, History, Human Progress, Links – Science and Technology, Politics, Public Policy, Science, Technology (Biotech & Health), Technology (Digital, Telecom, & Internet), Technology (Energy), Technology (Food & Water), Technology (Manufacturing & Construction)), Technology (Transportation & Distribution), Trends: Economic, Trends: Social

I've gotten very behind on my links pages. Here is my attempt to catch up on science and technology links. Sorry for the length, but there is some good stuff here. I'll have another post with environment links shortly. 1. Ancient Origins.net: Entire Neanderthal genome finally mapped – with amazing results This incredible research has…

Why The Washing Machine Was The Greatest Invention Of The Industrial Revolution

Jan 29, 2014

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in Economic Development, Human Progress, Technology (Manufacturing & Construction)), Trends: Economic, Trends: Social

Business Insider: Why The Washing Machine Was The Greatest Invention Of The Industrial Revolution "I was only four years old when I saw my mother load a washing machine for the first time ever. That was a great day for my mother," Hans Rosling, a professor of global health at Sweden's Karolinska Institutet, said in…

The Story of Globalization in 1 Graph

Jan 27, 2014

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in Economic Development, Economic News, Trends: Economic, Weatlh and Income Distribution

Atlantic: The Story of Globalization in 1 Graph … Globalization has winners and losers. The winners—particularly the upwardly mobile middle classes of China, India, Indonesia,Brazil, and Egypt—occupy the long hump of this elephant-like line. They have seen their inflation-adjusted incomes grow by 70 percent or more. The world's "1%" (which works out to the top…

Proof Jesus Was Not a Capitalist: The Richest 1 Percent Own Half the World’s Wealth – My Response

Jan 23, 2014

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in Capitalism and Markets, Great Divergence, Human Progress, Poverty, Theology, Trends: Economic, Trends: Social, Weatlh and Income Distribution

Rev. Dr. Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite has a post at the Huffington Post today titled Proof Jesus Was Not a Capitalist: The Richest 1 Percent Own Half the World's Wealth. Here is my response. She writes: …Biblically speaking, probably not. As Jesus warned, you have to choose. Either money rules you, or your highest values rule…

Has U.S. Economic Mobility Declined?

Jan 23, 2014

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in Economics, Trends: Economic, Weatlh and Income Distribution

Economic mobility has not changed in forty years according to this NEBR paper: Is the United States Still a Land of Opportunity? Recent Trends in Intergenerational Mobility Abstract We present new evidence on trends in intergenerational mobility in the U.S. using administrative earnings records. We find that percentile rank-based measures of intergenerational mobility have remainedextremely…

Jobs growth in poor countries by income group

Jan 22, 2014

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in Business, Economic Development, Poverty, Trends: Economic

Economist: Jobs growth in poor countries by income group … In the chart, left of zero mean fewer jobs in those income groups, while right of zero mean more jobs. So in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, the share of jobs for the poorest workers will contract while jobs for people with more income will…

A 200-Year Look At Automation And How It Has Improved Our Lives

Jan 21, 2014

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in Economic Development, Great Divergence, History, Human Progress, Social Media, Technology, Technology (Biotech & Health), Technology (Digital, Telecom, & Internet), Technology (Energy), Technology (Food & Water), Technology (Manufacturing & Construction)), Technology (Transportation & Distribution), Trends: Economic, Trends: Social

Will There Be Any Poor Countries Left in the World in 20 Years?

Jan 21, 2014

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in Economic Development, Globalization, Great Divergence, Human Progress, International Affairs, Poverty, Trends: Economic, Trends: Social, Wealth and Income

Atlantic: Will There Be Any Poor Countries Left in the World in 20 Years? Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation: We hear these myths raised at international conferences and at social gatherings. We get asked about them by politicians, reporters, students, and CEOs. All three reflect a dim view of the future, one that says the…

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