@dsmitheconomics @thesundaytimes In mid-60s, about a third of workers were employed in manufacturing. Now 8%! http://t.co/ipmr7XvIme—
Andrew Sentance (@asentance) July 12, 2015
Creative destruction in British manufacturing employment
13 Nov 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economic history, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, survivor principle Tags: British economy, British history, creative destruction, endogenous growth theory, labour reallocation, technological unemployment
Do the European welfare states free ride off American entrepreneurship and innovation?
12 Nov 2015 1 Comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic history, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, politics - USA, public economics, survivor principle, taxation, technological progress Tags: creative destruction, Daron Acemoglu, Denmark, entrepreneurial alertness, Eurosclerosis, international technology diffusion, taxation and entrepreneurship, taxation and innovation, taxation and investment, taxation and labour supply, technology followers, welfare state
Source: Daron Acemoglu A Scandinavian U.S. Would Be a Problem for the Global Economy – NYTimes.com.
With tech from 1960, you’d be more than twice as likely to die in a car wreck
12 Nov 2015 Leave a comment
in transport economics Tags: creative destruction, road safety
More than half of start-ups fail within the first five years
10 Nov 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, managerial economics, organisational economics Tags: creative destruction, entrepreneurial alertness
Creative destruction in homeopathic products
06 Nov 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: charlatans, consumer fraud, consumer protection, creative destruction, homeopathy, quackery, Quacks
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


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