
@BernieSanders there is no other side to Cuba – a totalitarian dictatorship
10 Mar 2016 Leave a comment
in development economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - USA
The Ultimate Resource
09 Mar 2016 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, entrepreneurship, growth miracles Tags: The Great Escape
The Great Escape comes to Latin America
07 Mar 2016 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: Latin America
Japanese, Korean and US tax revenues as a % of GDP since 1965
02 Mar 2016 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth miracles, public economics Tags: growth of government, Japan, size of government, South Korea
Japanese and Korean growth in the size of government seems to validate Directors’ Law. Government get bigger after countries become rich.
Data extracted on 23 Feb 2016 07:08 UTC (GMT) from OECD.Stat.
Extreme poverty was halved between 1990 and 2010
02 Mar 2016 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: extreme poverty, global poverty, The Great Escape
Japanese, Korean and US general government expenditure as a % of GDP since 1960
02 Mar 2016 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth miracles, Public Choice, public economics Tags: growth of government, Japan, size of government, South Korea
A fragile state lists from DFID
29 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in constitutional political economy, development economics, growth disasters, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: failed states
Chinese, Hong Kong, Taiwanese and Japanese billionaires by source of wealth
24 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, entrepreneurship, financial economics, growth miracles, industrial organisation, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: billionaires, China, entrepreneurial alertness, Hong Kong, Japan, superstar wages, superstars, Taiwan
Surprisingly few billionaires in any of the 4 countries obtained their wealth through political connections. Founding a company seems to be still the path of great wealth even in Japan these days. Hong Kong is a financial centre so the large number of billionaires in its financial sector is no surprise.
Few vegetarians are vegetarians by choice
22 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in development economics, health economics
@RusselNorman Why 1.3 billion people without access to electricity can’t afford to divest from fossil fuels
20 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: fossil fuel disinvestment, Fossil Fuels, rational irrationality



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