Where is it easiest to start a business? Explore the fully interactive map. buff.ly/1GPl5DM #progress http://t.co/YlN3vtfKpt—
HumanProgress.org (@humanprogress) June 18, 2015
Where is it easiest to start a business?
20 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, economics of regulation, industrial organisation, labour economics, occupational choice, occupational regulation Tags: cost of doing business, creative destruction, entrepreneurial alertness, freedom of entry
Julian Simon and William Buckley on Cross–Fire
18 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economic history, energy economics, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, environmentalism, liberalism, resource economics Tags: commodity prices, creative destruction, entrepreneurial alertness, Julian Simon, peak oil, The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape, The Great Fact, William Buckley
The track record on banking on solar energy innovation becoming cost competitive
18 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, energy economics, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, global warming, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: Big Solar, creative destruction, green rent seeking, renewable energy, renewable resources, solar energy
Joseph Schumpeter on The Great Enrichment
18 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, economic history, entrepreneurship, liberalism Tags: capitalism and freedom, creative destruction, Joseph Schumpeter, The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape, The Great Fact
Has the ‘Peak Oil’ drama peaked?
17 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, energy economics, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, resource economics Tags: creative destruction, entrepreneurial alertness, peak oil, The Great Enrichment
Remember Peak Oil? Just a few years ago Green Party leaders Jeanette Fitzsimons and Russell Norman routinely issued warnings about ‘the world running out of oil’ and told us that we needed to move freight off roads and on to shipping and rail, and commuters out of cars and on to trains, buses and bicycles.
They weren’t alone of course. An April 2006 article in The Economist reported that:
For years a small group of geologists has been claiming that the world has started to grow short of oil, that alternatives cannot possible replace it and that an imminent peak in production will lead to economic disaster. In recent months this view has gained wider acceptance on Wall Street and in the media. Recent books on oil have bewailed the threat. Every few weeks, its seems, “Out of Gas”, “The Empty Tank” and “The Coming Economic Collapse: How You Can…
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Julian Simon on Resources, Growth and Human Progress
17 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, development economics, economic history, energy economics, entrepreneurship, environmentalism, health economics, liberalism, resource economics Tags: capitalism and freedom, commodity prices, creative destruction, entrepreneurial alertness, Julian Simon, life expectancies, peak oil, The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape, The Great Fact
Creative destruction in advertising revenue
16 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of media and culture, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, survivor principle Tags: creative destruction, entrepreneurial alertness, legacy media
Soon American internet-ad revenue will surpass newspapers, magazines and billboards combined econ.st/1GjiIny http://t.co/17pxfdVWcE—
The World in 2015 (@EconWorldin) July 14, 2015
Creative destruction in car manufacturing
14 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, entrepreneurship, growth miracles, industrial organisation, international economics, survivor principle Tags: automotive industry, car industry, comparative advantage, creative destruction, entrepreneurial alertness, manufacturing industry, market selection, The meaning of competition
Changing shares of car production since 1950
(source bit.ly/1hn1l0Y) http://t.co/VPhianlBBX—
Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) August 07, 2015
Creative destruction in news
14 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, survivor principle Tags: creative destruction, legacy media, media bias
The fracking revolution
14 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, energy economics, politics - USA Tags: creative destruction, fracking
Apparently, some people still buy CDs
13 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of media and culture, industrial organisation, survivor principle Tags: CDs, creative destruction, legacy media
In the last 40 years, there have been huge shifts in how Americans spend money on music
redef.com/original/less-… http://t.co/jumI47aYAn—
Conrad Hackett (@conradhackett) August 05, 2015
Creative destruction in taxi rent capitalisation
13 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: creative destruction, Uber
Creative destruction in family spending in the USA
12 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, economic history, politics - USA Tags: creative destruction, living standards
https://twitter.com/VisualEcon/status/508957190129188864/photo/1
Family spending across a different income groups bit.ly/195NbKb http://t.co/mSbc0DRICY—
Catherine Mulbrandon (@VisualEcon) September 01, 2014
Cost control at Google in two charts
12 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, survivor principle Tags: competition as a discovery procedure, creative destruction, economics of advertising, entrepreneurial alertness, Google, innovation, legacy media, market selection, The meaning of competition
Google's core business explained in two charts buff.ly/1UBysMC http://t.co/V6uRrPVKMk—
Business Insider (@businessinsider) August 12, 2015
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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