Down and out in America in 2005 – Air Conditioning, Cable TV, and an Xbox
17 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in politics - USA, population economics, poverty and inequality Tags: living standards, poverty and inequality, The Great Enrichment
For decades, the U.S. Census Bureau has reported that over 30 million Americans were living in “poverty,” but the bureau’s definition of poverty differs widely from that held by most Americans.
In fact, other government surveys show that most of the persons whom the government defines as “in poverty” are not poor in any ordinary sense of the term. The overwhelming majority of the poor have air conditioning, cable TV, and a host of other modern amenities. They are well housed, have an adequate and reasonably steady supply of food, and have met their other basic needs, including medical care.
Some poor Americans do experience significant hardships, including temporary food shortages or inadequate housing, but these individuals are a minority within the overall poverty population.
Child poverty in America using the Supplementary Poverty Measure of the Census Bureau
09 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in politics - USA, population economics, poverty and inequality, welfare reform Tags: child poverty, measurement of poverty
Measuring child poverty after tax and income transfers from the welfare state make a big difference to the measurement of poverty in the USA.
via What If We Had Measured Poverty Differently for the Past 50 Years? – CityLab.
Capitalism and the abolition of extreme poverty – mobile phones addition
07 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
Charts showing there’s never been a better time to own a car
06 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in population economics, technological progress, transport economics Tags: the good old days, The Great Enrichment
David Friedman on global warming, population and problems with the externality argument
02 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, David Friedman, economic history, economics of information, economics of regulation, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, law and economics, population economics, property rights Tags: climate alarmism, competition as a discovery procedure, David Friedman, externalities, global warming, population bomb, The fatal conceit, The pretence to knowledge
Yes it is possible to end poverty
17 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
Lessons from a Feminist Paradise
12 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of love and marriage, gender, labour economics, population economics Tags: gender wage gap
Lower Working Age Population and Secular Stagnation
11 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
in labour economics, labour supply, population economics Tags: ageing society, ageing workforce, Population demographics
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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