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World Social Indicators: Child Mortality

Oct 26, 2017

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in Demography, Great Divergence, Health and Medicine, Series: World Social Indicators 2017, Sociology, Trends: Social

Alongside life expectancy, a second measure of prosperity demographers frequently use is the child mortality rate. The child mortality rate is the number of children that die between birth and their fifth birthday per 1,000 live births. Because the first years of life are when human beings are most vulnerable, their ability to survive the…

World Social Indicators: Life Expectancy

Oct 23, 2017

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in Demography, Great Divergence, Health and Medicine, Series: World Social Indicators 2017, Trends: Social

Demographers commonly use life expectancy rates as a measure of societal well-being. Life expectancy is the number of years someone is expected to live when born based on actuarial science. Long life is a universal indicator of prosperity across cultures and time. It is an important measure to demographers because achieving it requires a complex…

Prosperity: Introduction to the Cycle of Prosperity

Sep 2, 2008

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in Economic Development, Economics, Series: Cycle of Prosperity, Sociology

Every society, past and present, has an economy. Economies consist of two essential components: People and their environment. Economic questions ultimately come down to a measure of what happens to these two subjects. When I use the term economy in these posts, I refer to society's transforming matter, energy, and information from less useful to…

WSI: Destroying the Environment?

Aug 6, 2008

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in Economics, Environment, Great Divergence, Human Progress, Series: World Social Indicators 2008, Trends: Economic

Listening to environmental activists today, you get the idea that we have only two options. An ascetic no, economic growth world where we "live within limits" and protect the environment. An economically robust world that collapses from exhausting resources and destroys the ecosystem. Is there a third option? Is there an option that leads to…

WSI: Malthus Returns (Parochialism of the Present)

Aug 5, 2008

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in Demography, Economics, Great Divergence, Human Progress, Series: World Social Indicators 2008, Trends: Economic

One of the biggest challenges in appreciating the world trends we've examined in this series is "parochialism of the present." This refers to the twofold trap we fall into if we do not try to view our circumstances from beyond our narrow sliver of time. One trap is that we ignore history and fail to…

MEC: Destroying the Environment?

Mar 27, 2008

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in Economics, Environment, Series: Must Everything Change?, Sociology, Trends: Economic, Trends: Social

From reading Everything Must Change, I think we have two options. An ascetic no economic growth world where we "live within limits" and protect the environment. An economically robust world that collapses from exhausting resources and destroys the ecosystem. Is there a third option? Is there an option that leads to robust economic development, human…

MEC: Exhausting Scarce Resources?

Mar 26, 2008

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in Capitalism and Markets, Economic Development, Economics, Environment, Series: Must Everything Change?, Trends: Economic

I've made the case that Everything Must Change suffers from a parochialism of the present. It fails to see the trajectory society has been moving. But there is another way this parochialism is at work. It merely projects the present into the future. It fails to sufficiently consider future adaptations in human behavior and technology.…

Environment

Feb 20, 2008

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in Economics, Environment, Series: Social Indicators 2007, Technology (Energy)

SOCIAL INDICATORS 2007 There is a long history of environmentalism in American life. Yellowstone National Park was created in 1872. The Audubon Society, formed in 1905, was one of the earliest environmental groups. President Teddy Roosevelt (1901-1909) was probably the first "environmental president" with his conservationist policies. More modern environmental groups can be traced to…

A world full of good news

May 14, 2007

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in Demography, Economic Development, Education, Generations, Great Divergence, Poverty, Race, Trends: Economic, Trends: Social, Wealth and Income, Weatlh and Income Distribution

Boston.com: A world full of good news Malthus wrote just before the turn of the 19th century, when the Earth was home to some 980 million human beings. The global population today is about 6.5 billion, a sevenfold increase. If the alarmists are right, our lives should be far more impoverished, degraded, and pitiful than…

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