Hans Rosling and the magic washing machine | Video on TED.com
Posted: May 1, 2012 Filed under: Economic Freedom, Economic Growth, Uncategorized Leave a comment »http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_and_the_magic_washing_machine.html
Matt Ridley’s 17 Reasons to Be Cheerful
Posted: April 3, 2012 Filed under: Economic Freedom, Economic Growth, Uncategorized Leave a comment »Sent to you via Google Reader
Matt Ridley’s 17 Reasons to Be Cheerful
Steven Pinker on The Decline of Violence & “The Better Angels of Our Nature”
Posted: November 3, 2011 Filed under: Economic Freedom, Economic Growth, Violence, War Leave a comment »http://reason.com/blog/2011/11/03/steven-pinker-on-the-decline-o
US Grows Most ’70-’10
Posted: October 23, 2011 Filed under: Economic Growth, Prosperity, Uncategorized Leave a comment »Sent to you via Google Reader
US Grows Most ’70-’10
CARPE DIEM: America’s Ridiculously Large $15 Trillion Economy
Posted: October 19, 2011 Filed under: Economic Growth, Uncategorized Leave a comment »http://mjperry.blogspot.com/2011/10/americas-ridiculously-large-15-trillion.html
Does Science Shape Economic Progress – Or Is It the Other Way Around?
Posted: October 18, 2011 Filed under: Economic Growth, Science Leave a comment »http://cafehayek.com/2011/10/quotation-of-the-day-93.html
Now and Then
Posted: October 13, 2011 Filed under: Economic Freedom, Economic Growth Leave a comment »http://healthblog.ncpa.org/now-and-then/
It Gets Better: Sears Catalog Edition
Posted: September 23, 2011 Filed under: Economic Growth, Inflation, Prosperity Leave a comment »http://www.openmarket.org/2011/09/22/it-gets-better-sears-catalog-edition/
Niall Ferguson: The 6 killer apps of prosperity
Posted: September 20, 2011 Filed under: Economic Freedom, Economic Growth Leave a comment »http://www.ted.com/talks/niall_ferguson_the_6_killer_apps_of_prosperity.html
An Animated 4-Minute History of Econ
Posted: August 26, 2011 Filed under: Economic Freedom, Economic Growth, Uncategorized Leave a comment »Sent to you via Google Reader
An Animated 4-Minute History of Econ
Is the Cost of Living Really Rising?
Posted: August 17, 2011 Filed under: Economic Growth, Prosperity Leave a comment »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8SLIt7xZxU
Capitalism = Innovationism
Posted: August 3, 2011 Filed under: Economic Growth, Innovation Leave a comment »http://cafehayek.com/2011/08/capitalism-innovationism.html
The Land that Lean Manufacturing Forgot? Management Practices in Transition Countries
Posted: July 25, 2011 Filed under: Economic Freedom, Economic Growth, Free Trade, Globalization Leave a comment »http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2011/07/25/another-benefit-of-globalization/
How 28 poor countries escaped the poverty trap
Posted: July 14, 2011 Filed under: Economic Growth, Poverty Trap Leave a comment »Humans: Why They Triumphed
Posted: July 12, 2011 Filed under: Division of Labor, Economic Freedom, Economic Growth, Free Trade, Prosperity Leave a comment »http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703691804575254533386933138.html
Blue-Collar Anticapitalism – Ludwig von Mises – Mises Daily
Posted: July 11, 2011 Filed under: Business, Economic Freedom, Economic Growth, Uncategorized Leave a comment »http://mises.org/daily/5397/BlueCollar-Anticapitalism
Would You Give Up The Internet For 1 Million Dollars?
Posted: July 7, 2011 Filed under: Economic Growth, Inequality, Prosperity 1 Comment »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FB0EhPM_M4&feature=share
Two thousand years in one chart
Posted: June 29, 2011 Filed under: Economic Freedom, Economic Growth Leave a comment »http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/06/quantifying-history&fsrc=nwl
Artificial States
Posted: January 10, 2011 Filed under: Development Economics, Economic Growth, Reconstruction Leave a comment »http://aidwatchers.com/2011/01/sudan-isnt-the-only-one-the-artificial-states-problem/
Deirdre McCloskey interviewed
Posted: December 4, 2010 Filed under: Capitalism, Economic Freedom, Economic Growth, Free Trade Leave a comment »http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2010/12/farmers_forager.html
“You can measure the shifting significance of bourgeois words: honesty, profit, responsibility, monopoly, etc., by looking in historical dictionaries and historical texts in all the languages of commerce, from 1600 to 1848. “Responsibility,” for example, is entirely modern (and thus measurable: It’s zero before 1800, commonplace afterward). The equivalent word before 1800, as one can see from the Oxford Thesaurus (based on the Oxford English Dictionary), is “duty.” In a hierarchical society, one has one’s duty to one’s master, period. In a modern and bourgeois society, the duty is turned inward and becomes a character trait essential for a modern enterprise: responsibility.”
Maybe the coolest thing ever
Posted: December 3, 2010 Filed under: Economic Freedom, Economic Growth, Health, WHO - Health Care Stats Leave a comment »http://cafehayek.com/2010/12/maybe-the-coolest-thing-ever.html
Only trade-fuelled growth can help the world’s poor
Posted: September 21, 2010 Filed under: Development Economics, Economic Growth, Foreign Aid, Free Trade, Uncategorized Leave a comment »Sent to you via Google Reader
Only trade-fuelled growth can help the world’s poor
What Makes a Nation Rich? One Economist’s Big Answer
Posted: September 15, 2010 Filed under: Development Economics, Economic Growth, Institutions Leave a comment »http://www.esquire.com/features/best-and-brightest-2009/world-poverty-map-1209
In Praise of Fast Food
Posted: September 14, 2010 Filed under: Economic Growth, Health, Wealth Leave a comment »http://www.utne.com/Environment/Fast-Food-Culinary-Ethos.aspx
Property rights protection and corporate R&D: Evidence from China
Posted: June 1, 2010 Filed under: Economic Freedom, Economic Growth, Private Property Leave a comment »Following the recent literature on institutions and economic growth, we examine the effects of property rights protection on corporate R&D. Using a unique 2003 World Bank survey of over 2400 firms in 18 Chinese cities, we obtain the following findings: (1) property rights protection is positively and significantly related to corporate R&D activity (for both process and product R&D); (2) government services and helping hand are conducive to corporate R&D, while informal payments to government officials are not; and (3) government ownership of firms and direct appointment of CEOs are negatively associated with corporate R&D activities. We also find that corporate R&D is positively related to firm size, and access to finance, but negatively related to product market competition and firm age.
Civil Liberties and Economic Development
Posted: May 22, 2010 Filed under: Development Economics, Economic Freedom, Economic Growth, Uncategorized Leave a comment »http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?aid=7780532
WHY ARE SOME PLACES RICH WHILE OTHERS ARE POOR? THE INSTITUTIONAL NECESSITY OF ECONOMIC FREEDOM
Posted: March 1, 2010 Filed under: Economic Freedom, Economic Growth Leave a comment »“We survey perspectives on the economic differences between countries and argue that economic freedom is the key to prosperity. We close by outlining the policy implications. Specifically, removing obstacles to the exercise of economic freedom is an important step towards prosperity.”
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/123305174/abstract
Global Infant Mortality: Correcting for Undercounting (WHO RANKINGS)
Posted: February 26, 2010 Filed under: Development Economics, Economic Freedom, Economic Growth, Health Care Leave a comment »Summary
The UN Millennium Development Goals highlight the infant mortality rate (IMR) as a measure of progress in improving neonatal health and more broadly as an indicator of basic health care. However, prior research has shown that IMRs (and in particular perinatal mortality) can be underestimated dramatically, depending on a particular country’s live birth criterion, vital registration system, and reporting practices. This study assesses infant mortality undercounting for a global dataset using an approach popularized in productivity economics. Using a one-sided error, frontier estimation technique, we recalculate rates and concurrently derive a measure of likely undercount for each country.
A Zero-Sum Wealth Quiz: Where Would You Rather Live
Posted: February 24, 2010 Filed under: Economic Freedom, Economic Growth, Inequality Leave a comment »http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2007/04/a_zerosum_wealt.html
