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— Aron Strandberg (@aronstrandberg) November 23, 2015
Median ages in the USA and Japan
31 Dec 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, population economics Tags: Japan
Why are Scandinavians so thin? Still few overweight Japanese
08 Nov 2015 1 Comment
in health economics Tags: Denmark, economics of obesity, Finland, Japan, Norway, Scandinavia, Sweden
He who is first is now last: real GDP per capita of the East Asian Tigers since 1950
05 Nov 2015 1 Comment
in development economics, economic history, growth miracles Tags: East Asian Tigers, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan
Japan has gone first to be last having been just overtaken in the last year or two by South Korea on a per capita real GDP basis, PPP. The Lost Decade certainly has taken its toll on Japanese relative prosperity. Singapore overtook Japan in the 1970s – a testament to the Singapore miracle. Hong Kong too overtook Japan on a purchasing power basis in the mid-1990s followed not long after by Taiwan. Singapore is seriously rich.
Source: The Conference Board. 2015. The Conference Board Total Economy Database™, May 2015, http://www.conference-board.org/data/economydatabase/
The Japanese gender pay gap at the 10th, 50th and 90th percentile since 1975
23 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economic history, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: compensating differentials, gender wage gap, Japan
The unadjusted gender pay gap is still large in Japan but is declining slowly.
Hours worked per working age American, British, French and Japanese since 1950
06 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, labour economics, labour supply Tags: British economy, France, Japan
Source: Data extracted on 05 Oct 2015 22:01 UTC (GMT) from OECD.Stat and The Conference Board. 2015. The Conference Board Total Economy Database™, May 2015, http://www.conference-board.org/data/economydatabase/
Life in an American concentration camp (Beautiful photos from a Japanese-American “internment camp.”)
01 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, laws of war, Music, politics - USA, war and peace Tags: Civil Liberties, Japan, Rap music, wartime detention, wartime interment, World War II
No Generation Rent in #Nihon – real housing prices in #Japan and #SouthKorea since 1975
16 Sep 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth miracles, urban economics Tags: Generation Rent, housing affordability, housing prices, Japan, land supply, land use planning, NIMBYs, South Korea, zoning
Source: International House Price Database – Dallas Fed
Note: The house price index series is an index constructed with nominal house price data. The real house price index is an index calculated by deflating the nominal house price series with a country’s personal consumption expenditure deflator.
France is holding its own on the demographic crisis
26 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in population economics Tags: ageing society, demographic crisis, economics of fertility, France, Japan, South Korea
Japanese life expectancies by age and gender, 1990 to 2013
21 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics, population economics Tags: Japan, life expectancies, The Great Escape
The Canadians are coming! The Canadians are buying up our land! What has @NZGreens to say about that?
17 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, financial economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: Australia, Canada, China, FDI, Japan, Left-wing hypocrisy, left-wing popularism, New Zealand Greens, right-wing popularism
Canada was the largest source of foreign investment during the period, as its pension fund bought 18 properties in a portfolio from AMP and increased its stake in Kaingaroa Forest.
Japan’s population is set to fall 32% by 2060
12 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in labour economics, labour supply Tags: ageing society, demographic crisis, Japan
Japan's population is set to fall 32% (!) by 2060, and 40% will be over age 65 econ.st/1Nk65i4 http://t.co/pes8KW6Mnm—
Nick Timiraos (@NickTimiraos) July 13, 2015
The Power of Propaganda and the Japanese Empire
09 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in laws of war, Public Choice, war and peace Tags: atomic bombings, credible commitments, game theory, Japan, World War II
The quote of Schuler is an excellent summary of the difficulty of bringing a war to an end rather than give time to regroup and attack again.
Economist Kurt Schuler has a fascinating post on the various currencies that were used in mainland East Asia during World War II over at the Free Banking group blog.
Unfortunately, there are three paragraphs in the post that attempt to take libertarians to task for daring to challenge both the narrative of the state and the narrative of the nation regarding that horrific reminder of humanity’s shortcomings. He is writing of the certainty of the US’s moral clarity when it came to fighting Japan (the post was published around Pearl Harbor remembrance day):
The 1940 U.S embargo of certain materials frequently used for military purposes was intended to pressure Japan to stop its campaign of invasion and murder in China. The embargo was a peaceful response to violent actions. Japan could have stopped; it would have been the libertarian thing to do. For libertarians to claim that the embargo was…
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Nagasaki, 20 minutes after the atomic bombing
09 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in laws of war, war and peace Tags: atomic bombings, Japan, Nagasaki, World War II
Nagasaki, 20 minutes after the atomic bombing in 1945. http://t.co/aqtpAyoUG2—
ClassicPics (@History_Pics) June 19, 2015
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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