Bill Gates on The Great Fact
12 Dec 2014 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, technological progress Tags: Bill Gates, capitalism and freedom, The Great Enrichment, The Great Fact
Is everything getting worse? Household technology adoption rates 1997-2010s
09 Dec 2014 Leave a comment
in politics - USA, technological progress Tags: technology diffusion, technology usage rates, The Great Enrichment, The Great Fact

HT: infodocket.com
Everyone is getting worse alert: unbelievable cellphone ad from the early 1990s
08 Dec 2014 Leave a comment
Good old days alert: drivetime music
05 Dec 2014 Leave a comment
in technological progress Tags: The Great Enrichment
Did which of the Great Enrichment and OSHA make the workplace safer?
01 Dec 2014 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, health and safety, labour economics Tags: health and safety, labour economics, The Great Enrichment

Original source of graph: Viscusi, W. Kip, John M. Vernon, and Joseph E. Harrington, Jr. Economics of Regulation and Antitrust. 2nd ed. Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath and Company, 1992, page 714.
HT: Art Diamond
Evolution of the Volkswagen Beetle, 1951-1990
30 Nov 2014 Leave a comment
in economic history, technological progress Tags: The Great Enrichment
Grumpy old hippies on the iPhone generation
28 Nov 2014 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, liberalism Tags: grumpy old hippies, grumpy old man, grumpy old women, The Great Enrichment
HT: Sean Fitzpatrick






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