Economic Growth
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What Greta Thunberg Forgets About Climate Change
“Perhaps Greta’s message for politicians to listen to the scientists and take real action has hit home. In one sense, they are already well on the way to following her advice. They read chapter 10 of IPCC’s AR5 report, where they learned that climate change is important – but that other socioeconomic developments matter much…
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Why Is There No COVID-19 Life Insurance?
The existence of such insurance would help to quell fears by allowing underinsured households the opportunity to protect their incomes.
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Beware of Happiness Statistics
A recurrent complaint leveled at economists is that income per capita is not a good measure of welfare. In its most refined forms, the complaint is that gross domestic product (GDP) per capita is a poor indicator of well-being. This is why there have been frequent calls to shift to other measures of well-being where…
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Growth Is Good
In his 2018 book Stubborn Attachments, Tyler Cowen defends a thesis that is likely to be as unpopular as it is misunderstood: over the long run, differences in growth rates swamp just about everything. Therefore, increased economic growth is a moral imperative. At the very least, more economic growth should be more of a priority…
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Why We are Getting More for Less
Thankfully, capitalism is not wrecking the planet. At least that’s the message in a brand-new book with the stunning title More From Less by Andrew McAfee
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How Kids Create Wealth By Trading Halloween Candy
The post-Halloween candy market is a commercial society of traders buying low and selling high, and it’s a microcosm of what happens when market exchange works well.
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Forests Make a Comeback
The tree cover of the planet is increasing, thanks mostly to increased efficiencies in food production.
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US Economic Performance: A Midyear Assessment
The Trump administration needs to give the economy a dose of the right kind of nothing, relax the trade war antics and stop bashing trade partners, lay off the Fed, and by doing so will give real GDP growth a positive nudge.
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As the U.S. Government Grows, American Prosperity Slows
Look back 150 years (from the end of the Civil War), ignore whatever party or president was dominant, and try to discern a relationship between the size, scope and power of the U.S. federal government and America’s economic growth rate.
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Is the American Economy Underperforming or Not?
Edward Stringham on Fox News comments on the growth rates of the American economy and the factors that go into causing it.
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What Greta Thunberg Forgets About Climate Change
“Perhaps Greta’s message for politicians to listen to the scientists and take real action has hit home. In one sense, they are already well on the way to following her advice. They read chapter 10 of IPCC’s AR5 report, where they learned that climate change is important – but that other socioeconomic developments matter much…
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Why Is There No COVID-19 Life Insurance?
The existence of such insurance would help to quell fears by allowing underinsured households the opportunity to protect their incomes.
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•
Beware of Happiness Statistics
A recurrent complaint leveled at economists is that income per capita is not a good measure of welfare. In its most refined forms, the complaint is that gross domestic product (GDP) per capita is a poor indicator of well-being. This is why there have been frequent calls to shift to other measures of well-being where…
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Growth Is Good
In his 2018 book Stubborn Attachments, Tyler Cowen defends a thesis that is likely to be as unpopular as it is misunderstood: over the long run, differences in growth rates swamp just about everything. Therefore, increased economic growth is a moral imperative. At the very least, more economic growth should be more of a priority…
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Why We are Getting More for Less
Thankfully, capitalism is not wrecking the planet. At least that’s the message in a brand-new book with the stunning title More From Less by Andrew McAfee
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•
How Kids Create Wealth By Trading Halloween Candy
The post-Halloween candy market is a commercial society of traders buying low and selling high, and it’s a microcosm of what happens when market exchange works well.
-
•
Forests Make a Comeback
The tree cover of the planet is increasing, thanks mostly to increased efficiencies in food production.
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•
US Economic Performance: A Midyear Assessment
The Trump administration needs to give the economy a dose of the right kind of nothing, relax the trade war antics and stop bashing trade partners, lay off the Fed, and by doing so will give real GDP growth a positive nudge.
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•
As the U.S. Government Grows, American Prosperity Slows
Look back 150 years (from the end of the Civil War), ignore whatever party or president was dominant, and try to discern a relationship between the size, scope and power of the U.S. federal government and America’s economic growth rate.
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Is the American Economy Underperforming or Not?
Edward Stringham on Fox News comments on the growth rates of the American economy and the factors that go into causing it.