The impact of religion and science on life expectancy
21 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of religion, health economics, technological progress Tags: life expectancy, The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape, The Great Fact
Middle class stagnation versus food poverty
15 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in politics - USA, population economics, poverty and inequality, technological progress Tags: good old days, middle class stagnation, The Great Enrichment, wage stagnation
CHART: As a share of income, spending on food has gone from 25% in 1930s to < 10% in 2013. http://t.co/pxRgf6tNOZ—
Mark J. Perry (@Mark_J_Perry) May 14, 2015
@phattonez Note that almost 50% of food expenditures are for now food away from home. http://t.co/zWAu0Zlw82—
Mark J. Perry (@Mark_J_Perry) May 18, 2015
Why no (top 1% driven) middle class wage stagnation in (non-unionised) technologically progressive industries?
11 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
.@CEAChair: Higher productivity needed for increases in income on.wsj.com/1E4jGDQ @MarkMuro1 Agreed. Proof here http://t.co/oZ76aeQdiq—
Jonathan T. Rothwell (@jtrothwell) March 11, 2015
Wages & productivity are growing together in high R&D-STEM industries brook.gs/1D5Pqxc @CEAChair @MarkMuro1 http://t.co/fe5MDomJqE—
Jonathan T. Rothwell (@jtrothwell) March 11, 2015
The price, output and acreage effects of a GMO ban
08 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, economics of regulation, environmental economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, population economics, technological progress Tags: agricultural economics, expressive voting, extreme poverty, global hunger, global poverty, GMOs, Left-wing hypocrisy, rational ignorance, rational irrationality, The Great Fact
Organic farming is a gift….
facebook.com/welovegv http://t.co/iu8Jq0KcHD—
C. S. Prakash (@AgBioWorld) June 05, 2015
Projected increases in corn and soy prices in a world without GMOs
ageconsearch.umn.edu/bitstream/2049… http://t.co/PNydjpl59K—
C. S. Prakash (@AgBioWorld) June 08, 2015
If you outlaw GMOs, be prepared to bring millions of acres of forest land, cropland & pasture under farming http://t.co/H9ftkxhXYe—
C. S. Prakash (@AgBioWorld) June 08, 2015
If GMOs are banned today in the US, what would be the crop yield reduction? http://t.co/pEn73PODcR—
C. S. Prakash (@AgBioWorld) June 08, 2015
Moons of the solar system with earth as a scale
06 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in technological progress Tags: moons, space
Moons of the solar system with earth as a scale http://t.co/iqQ5d4e1id—
Charts and Maps (@ChartsandMaps) June 05, 2015
Occupational Health & Safety has come a long way with rising incomes
06 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
Repairing the Hull of the Graf Zeppelin during the flight over the Atlantic, 1934. http://t.co/DhxAiCIowS—
ClassicPics (@History_Pics) May 25, 2015
Rise of private R&D and the fall of public R&D
06 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economic history, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, politics - USA, rentseeking, survivor principle, technological progress Tags: creative destruction, entrepreneurial alertness, private R&D, public R&D, R&D
Creative destruction in digital devices
01 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, survivor principle, technological progress Tags: cell phones, creative destruction, entrepreneurial alertness, PCs, smart phones, The Great Enrichment
1993 vs 2013: http://t.co/tdnNqmRmcS—
History Pics (@HistoryPixs) January 08, 2014
Creative destruction in television prices in New Zealand
01 Jun 2015 1 Comment
in economics of media and culture, entrepreneurship, politics - New Zealand, technological progress Tags: creative destruction, good old days
Facebook started 10 years ago today
29 May 2015 Leave a comment
10 years ago today Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg and his college friends http://t.co/IVFDFvu2VM—
History Pics (@HistoryPixs) February 04, 2014
Fossil fuels and the Great Escape in winter
24 May 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, energy economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, technological progress Tags: Fossil Fuels, The Great Fact
Creative destruction in supercomputers
22 May 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, technological progress Tags: creative destruction, Moore's law
The iPad 2 would have been the world's fastest supercomputer in 1994. http://t.co/PcGGx7KAKp—
Weird History (@weird_hist) April 21, 2015
London’s first computer, the fastest in the world, May 1950
19 May 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, technological progress Tags: creative destruction
London's first computer, the fastest in the world at 1MHz. May 1950. http://t.co/vVxBXIv1qF—
History Pics (@HistoryPixs) February 19, 2014
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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