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In the 1920’s the President of Stanford warned students about owning automobiles https://t.co/bemMvuD16h pic.twitter.com/DMoEm4NEVu
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In 1922 Princeton banned students from owning automobiles
07 Apr 2016 1 Comment
in economic history, economics of information, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, technological progress Tags: doomsday prophets, good old days
@BernieSanders @realdonaldtrump want to reverse The Great Escape in developing countries
07 Apr 2016 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, industrial organisation, international economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: absolute poverty, extreme poverty, tariffs, The Great Escape, trade agreements, trade liberalisation
Source: TRANSCRIPT: Bernie Sanders meets with News Editorial Board – NY Daily News.
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Source: If you’re poor in another country, this is the scariest thing Bernie Sanders has said – Vox.
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Source: If you’re poor in another country, this is the scariest thing Bernie Sanders has said – Vox.
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35 years of the global economy in one video
06 Apr 2016 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, economics of media and culture, growth miracles Tags: The Great Enrichment, The Great Fact
@jeremycorbyn @realdonaldtrump @BernieSanders would want to save these jobs
05 Apr 2016 Leave a comment
The underbelly of The Great Escape: trends in New Zealand BMIs
04 Apr 2016 Leave a comment
in economic history, health economics Tags: economics of obesity, The Great Fact
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
Portion of each state that is federal land
04 Apr 2016 Leave a comment
in economic history Tags: Federal land
A rejection letter that @U2 received in 1979
30 Mar 2016 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of media and culture, entrepreneurship, Music Tags: entrepreneurial alertness, U2
How much of Swedish power is renewable energy?
28 Mar 2016 Leave a comment
in economic history, energy economics, environmental economics Tags: hydroelectric power, renewable energy, solar power, wind power
All part of @BernieSanders’ good old days before the top 1% looted everything
26 Mar 2016 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, economic history, economics of media and culture, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, technological progress
@suemoroney the Maori economy is not $39 billion, it is much more @Maori_Party
26 Mar 2016 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of education, human capital, labour economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: Maori economic development
Much of the non-European human capital in New Zealand is Maori and it far exceeded $39 billion 20 years ago or more. Attempts to quantify the Maori economy by counting up the value of Maori institutions and businesses distracts from the main priority for Maori economic development which is education, education, education.
Source: Lˆe Thi. Vˆan Tr`ınh, Estimating the monetary value of the stock of human capital for New Zealand, University of Canterbury PhD thesis (September 2006), Table 4.6: Aggregate human capital stock by ethnicity.
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