The apps in your smartphone cost $900,000 thirty years ago h/t @datarade @ValaAfshar pic.twitter.com/ALGzv9ozkw
— Ninja Economics (@NinjaEconomics) October 29, 2015
The apps in your smartphone cost $900,000 thirty years ago
06 Nov 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, entrepreneurship, technological progress Tags: creative destruction, entrepreneurial alertness, smart phones
The diffusion rates of household appliances in the 20th century
06 Nov 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, gender, industrial organisation, labour economics, survivor principle Tags: creative destruction, engines of liberation, household production, international technology diffusion, marital division of labour, technology diffusion
Why household appliances are the 20th century’s most disruptive technologies bit.ly/1LsZEJC
at @wef https://t.co/qwI3FpXhwz—
Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) October 24, 2015
The wisdom of Homer Simpson: peak oil, oil pollution and the price at the pump
04 Nov 2015 Leave a comment
https://twitter.com/NZReuben/status/661793755171655680
https://twitter.com/JimRose69872629/status/661802293549887488
The number of oil spills is decreasing.
More on oil spills: OurWorldInData.org/data/environme… http://t.co/mcXEodJzYc—
Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) June 14, 2015
Why are so many Silicon Valley start-up founders libertarian Democrats?
03 Nov 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, entrepreneurship, income redistribution, industrial organisation, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: creative destruction, entrepreneurial alertness, expressive voting, rational ignorance, Silicon Valley, start-ups, voter demographics
The ageing of the couch potato
03 Nov 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture Tags: ageing society, creative destruction, digital media, legacy media
10 years ago today some kid dropped out of Harvard to work on some website
02 Nov 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of media and culture, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, survivor principle Tags: creative destruction, entrepreneurial alertness, Facebook
Did government pick the Internet as a winner? @stevenljoyce @dpfdpf
31 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of media and culture, industrial organisation, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: creative destruction, entrepreneurial alertness, industry policy, Internet, picking losers, picking winners, The fatal conceit, The meaning of competition, The pretense to knowledge
Creative destruction in Medicare spending
31 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, entrepreneurship, health economics Tags: creative destruction
"1 in 3 Medicare dollars today gets spent on something that wasn't around a decade ago." –@amitabhchandra2 http://t.co/khX40YG5Bp—
The Hamilton Project (@hamiltonproj) October 11, 2015
Peak tablet and peak e-book reader
30 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
Creative destruction in routine occupations
29 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: creative destruction
Why we should all be creative at #work wef.ch/1NJzBS9 http://t.co/XzfOKWsmxw—
World Economic Forum (@wef) October 16, 2015
Some very British creative destruction in telecommunications
26 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of media and culture Tags: British economy, creative destruction, mobile phones, technology diffusion
https://twitter.com/amberleybooks/status/653168927996948480/photo/1
The UK telephone network became fully automatic #OTD 14 Oct 1976 with the closure of Portree manual exchange, Skye http://t.co/V5x08iyQdg—
BT Archives (@BTArchives) October 14, 2015
Operator Agnes Dewar connects the last call on the last UK manual telephone exchange, Portree, Isle of Skye #OTD 1976 http://t.co/SddN0vUq1d—
BT Archives (@BTArchives) October 14, 2015
More evidence on the emergence of the working rich
25 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economics of education, entrepreneurship, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, Marxist economics, occupational choice Tags: College premium, creative destruction, education premium, entrepreneurial alertness, graduate premium, Leftover Left, superstar wages, superstars, top 1%
Creative destruction in telegraph messages
25 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of media and culture Tags: Australia, creative destruction
#OTD 21 Oct 1872 a UK – Australia telegraph service opened from London to Darwin, 20 hours to transmit a message! https://t.co/cgnbhLzAuw—
BT Archives (@BTArchives) October 21, 2015
@BernieSanders @HillaryClinton drug price controls will shorten lives
21 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, health economics, politics - USA Tags: 2016 presidential election, creative destruction, drug lags, entrepreneurial alertness, innovations, intellectual property, patents and copyright, price controls
Drug price controls have populist appeal, but patients are the ones they would hurt the most bit.ly/1X3e742 http://t.co/ulXuGHLSld—
Manhattan Institute (@ManhattanInst) October 17, 2015
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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