CHART: Flaaaat euro-area industrial output in 2014, still 12% below 2008 levels. But better growth prospects in 2015. pic.twitter.com/hPkfPsm2Mv
— Maxime Sbaihi (@MxSba) February 12, 2015
Is the middle-class disappearing?
12 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
in economic growth, human capital, income redistribution, politics - USA, poverty and inequality Tags: middle class stagnation
Why did Britain join the EU? A new insight from economic (and political) history
11 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
in Euro crisis, international economic law, macroeconomics Tags: British economy, EU membership, European Union
Nice article by Nauro F. Campos and Fabrizio Coricelli on UK-EU history.
It tracks the history behind the two regions and why UK eventually joined EU in 1973:
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When did global technological leadership migrate across the Atlantic?
10 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
in economic growth, human capital, politics - USA, technological progress Tags: global technological frontier, growth of knowledge, innovation, Schumpeter, technology diffusion

HT: theatlantic.com/a-short-history-of-american-invention/385279/ via Mikko Packalen and Jay Bhattacharya
The price of policy uncertainty
10 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
in macroeconomics, politics - USA Tags: regime uncertainty
GDP per New Zealander remains well below leading OECD economies due to a large shortfall in labour productivity
10 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
in economic growth, macroeconomics, politics - New Zealand
Economics New Zealand: Did we move too quickly?
09 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
in macroeconomics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: monetary policy
Everyone is richer in the USA and the middle class is moving up
09 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
in economic growth, great recession, macroeconomics, poverty and inequality Tags: The Great Enrichment
The middle class is shrinking in the USA because most of of 10% shrinkage is due to them becoming rich.

Everyone is wealthier than in the past and would have been wealthier but for the Great Recession and the countless tax rises of Obama.

Milton Friedman on how New Keynesian Macroeconomics is mostly monetarism
06 Feb 2015 Leave a comment

A Report Card for Humanity: 1900-2050
06 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, economic growth, health economics, technological progress Tags: The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape, The Great Fact
A clickable timeline of central banking activity during the 2008 financial crisis
05 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
This map requires the tyranny of distance types to predict the coming boom for New Zealand
05 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
in economic growth, economic history, politics - New Zealand Tags: geography, global economic hubs

HT: https://twitter.com/tutor2u_econ/status/552013472247341056?s=09








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