Global GDP shares, 1820 – 2013

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European colonialism conquered every country in the world but these five

26 Feb 2015 Leave a comment

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Which climate change is worse – global warming or global cooling?

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by Jim Rose in economic history, environmental economics, global warming Tags: , ,

Bank of England rates going back to 1705

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Is Piketty a double secret neoliberal? A charter schools fan even?

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by Jim Rose in applied welfare economics, development economics, economic history, growth miracles, human capital, labour economics, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality Tags: ,

krugman on Piketty

Thomas Piketty on solutions to inequality

HT: Krugman vs. Piketty on what to do about inequality »

How the Chinese Zodiac Affects National Birth Rates

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by Jim Rose in applied price theory, economic history, economics of media and culture Tags: ,

via How the Chinese Zodiac Affects National Birth Rates.

Bureaucracy also landed on the Moon too

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by Jim Rose in economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, law and economics, technological progress Tags: , ,

https://twitter.com/History_Pics/status/570372893588267008

Blackstone agrees with Lucas on ideas and growth

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A B-25 bomber crashes into the Empire State Building, 1945

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P. T. Bauer, The Vicious Circle of Poverty: Reality or Myth?

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The Russians are coming, the Russians are coming – Soviet strategic airpower compared

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by Jim Rose in economic history, war and peace

Russian Bear bomber

American B2 bomber

Greece spent a lot of its history in sovereign default

23 Feb 2015 Leave a comment

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How are women doing in the US when it comes to political & business leadership positions

23 Feb 2015 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in discrimination, economic history, economics of marriage, gender, labour economics, law and economics, occupational choice, politics - USA Tags: ,

NYT in 1985 on why laptops doomed to be a niche market

23 Feb 2015 Leave a comment

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Everybody is seriously richer because of post-war capitalism

22 Feb 2015 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economic growth, economic history, liberalism Tags: , ,

Figure 1:  Growth in real average income for the bottom 90%

Source: voxeu.org

By the way, in the countries where growth in real average incomes appears to have flattened out, is it seriously suggested that middle-class families cannot buy a basket of goods of superior quality and quantity than they could 30 or 40 years ago?

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