What Was the Industrial Revolution? – Robert E. Lucas
04 Apr 2016 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic growth, economic history, history of economic thought, Robert E. Lucas Tags: industrial revolution
More evidence of mass kidnappings of @Oxfamnz activists – the #FinalCountdown
29 Mar 2016 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth miracles
They can be no other explanation than mass kidnappings are stopping principled ODA activists such as in Oxfam from dancing in the streets celebrating the success of capitalism in starting the final countdown to the abolition of extreme poverty.
More reasons to loathe anti-GMO activists
25 Mar 2016 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics Tags: agricultural economics, antiscience left, GMOs
Poverty reduction in Africa is even greater than previously thought
24 Mar 2016 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, econometerics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: Africa, extreme poverty, global poverty, The Great campus game
The 1st @PaulKrugman on globalisation & development @harleyhs #TPPANoWay
22 Mar 2016 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, international economics Tags: anti-market bias, antiforeign bias, GATT, gender analysis, gender wage gap, makework bias, NAFTA, pessimism bias, preferential trading agreements, rational irrationality, TPPA, WTO
Source: Paul Krugman (1997) Enemies of the WTO.
This visiting American education professor who specialises in globalisation, claimed in the linked radio interview that real wages had fallen in the USA and Mexico. Even for the bottom 20% of the USA, their after-tax household incomes increased by 40% since 1979, with most of that after the signing of NAFTA.
Everything that is bad in crony capitalist Mexico is the fault of NAFTA if our visiting academic is to be believed despite trade tripling and investment increasing 600% because of NAFTA.
Women’s earnings growth has been perfectly fine over the last 40 years despite the horrors of NAFTA and the attack on unions and workers rights by a top 1% emboldened by NAFTA and globalisation, if our visiting academic is to be believed.
Gender analysis, gender analysis, where is his gender analysis of NAFTA? Few labour market statistics make sense without being broken down by sex because of the immense economic progress of women in the last 50 years. Can NAFTA claim credit for that?
@danielbenami on Ferraris For All
20 Mar 2016 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic growth, economics, economics of media and culture Tags: The Great Enrichment
#HAH2016 Life expectancy is rising in the world’s four most populous countries
19 Mar 2016 Leave a comment
in development economics, health economics Tags: China, India, Indonesia, life expectancies, The Great Escape
Hong Kong’s per capita GDP has bested that of Western Europe
11 Mar 2016 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history Tags: Hong Kong
@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
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