I, Pencil Extended Commentary: Trade & Specialization
22 Dec 2015 1 Comment
in applied price theory, industrial organisation, international economics, survivor principle Tags: division of labour, international trade, specialisation and exchange
I, Pencil Extended Commentary: Creative Destruction
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in applied price theory, economic history, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, survivor principle, technological progress Tags: creative destruction, division of labour, entrepreneurial alertness, IPencil, specialisation and exchange, The meaning of competition
The Hockey Stick of Human Prosperity
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On a timeline of human history, the standard of living resembles a hockey stick – flatlining and then skyrocketing in just the last few centuries.
Specialization and trade explains the astonishing growth of productivity and output in such a short amount of time—after millennia of famine, low life expectancy, and incurable disease

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