Tag: Matt Ridley

Reasons to Be Cheerful

Aug 19, 2014

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mwkruse

in Crime, Demography, Education, Environment, Great Divergence, Health and Medicine, Human Progress, Poverty, Trends: Economic, Trends: Social, Wealth and Income, Weatlh and Income Distribution

Matt Ridley: Reasons to Be Cheerful We are prone to fixate on problems and threats. The news concentrates on Ebola, the Middle East and Ukraine violence, and the discord in Ferguson, Missouri. But it is important to keep present challenges (and they are more decidedly real) in context. Matt Ridley offers twelve reasons to be…
The World’s Resources Aren’t Running Out – Matt Ridley

May 5, 2014

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in Capitalism and Markets, Economic Development, Environment, Human Progress, Trends: Economic, Trends: Social

Wall Street Journal: The World's Resources Aren't Running Out As I listen to conversations about our economic future, I hear two visions of the future being articulated, and I think both are inaccurate. First, there are what I call the Malthusians. They see a world of imminent collapse, limits to growth, exhausted resources, and such.…
Economic Development Links

Apr 8, 2014

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in Africa, Capitalism and Markets, China, Demography, Economic Development, Environment, Europe, Health and Medicine, Human Progress, Immigration, India, Links – Economic Development, Microenterprise, Politics, Poverty, Public Policy, Sociology, Technology (Food & Water), Technology (Manufacturing & Construction)), Trends: Economic, Trends: Social

1. You Decide: Save the People or Save the Planet #StopTheMyth 2. New York Times: The End of the ‘Developing World’ BILL GATES, in his foundation’s annual letter, declared that “the terms ‘developing countries’ and ‘developed countries’ have outlived their usefulness.” He’s right. If we want to understand the modern global economy, we need a…
Economics Links

Mar 5, 2014

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1. Quartz: Globalization really means countries just trade with their neighbors 2. Business Insider: Europe's Share Of Global Profits Is At A 28-Year Low 3. USA Today: Europe widespread corruption 'breathtaking' … Meanwhile, the report, which was the first published by the EU to detail people's perceptions of corruption in the union, also said that…
Explaining the steep decline in the frequency of fires

Nov 7, 2013

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in Environment, Human Progress, Public Policy, Technology, Technology (Manufacturing & Construction)), Trends: Social

Matt Ridley: Explaining the steep decline in the frequency of fires … In my case, as somebody always on the look-out for under-reported good news stories, it also served to alert me to just how dramatic the fall in “demand” for firefighters has been. Intrigued by the strike, I looked up the numbers and found…
Saturday Links

Jul 13, 2013

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I skipped Saturday Links last week due to the holiday weekend. I'm catching up this week. 1. Faith in the Free Market "… Selke, now 36, is part of a vanguard of young Christians who believe that God uses not only the church and formal ministry but every sphere of society, including business and free…
Anthropocene: Do We Need a New Environmentalism for a New Age?

Dec 20, 2012

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in Environment, Public Policy, Technology

A few days ago, Matt Ridley had a piece in the Wall Street Journal, Cooling Down the Fears of Climate Change, in which he wrote: … In short: We can now estimate, based on observations, how sensitive the temperature is to carbon dioxide. We do not need to rely heavily on unproven models. Comparing the…
Matt Ridley on the Benefit of Genetically Modified Crops

Oct 11, 2012

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in Environment, Technology (Energy), Technology (Food & Water)

Matt Ridley: Matt Ridley on the Benefit of Genetically Modified Crops Ridley leads off this piece by noting: Generally, technologies are judged on their net benefits, not on the claim that they are harmless: The good effects of, say, the automobile and aspirin outweigh their dangers. … He goes on to explain that despite sensationalist…
17 Reasons to be cheerful

Apr 4, 2012

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mwkruse

in Demography, Environment, Health and Medicine, Human Progress, Poverty, Trends: Economic, Trends: Social, Wealth and Income

Reader's Digest: 17 Reasons to be cheerful by Matt Ridley I've selected a few tidbits. And notice that the topic here is "reasons to be cheerful," not "reasons to ignore what more needs to be done" or "reasons to believe perfection has been reached." It never ceases to amaze me how some people are so…
Is the world getting better?

Mar 9, 2012

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mwkruse

in Christian Life, Demography, Ecclesia, Economic Development, Great Divergence, Human Progress, Politics, Public Policy, Sociology, Theology, Trends: Economic, Trends: Social

Dallas Morning News: Is the world getting better? Centre College professor Beau Weston operates an interesting blog, the Gruntled Center. He put up a post last week that draws from a lecture he recently gave at his Kentucky college. In the post and lecture, Weston, a Presbyterian, makes the argument that the world has gotten…