A very good point from Stephen Gordon at Worthwhile Canadian Initiative that the growing concentration of wealth may, in part, be to do with changing demographics. Although I doubt this is the sole factor behind the growing concentration of wealth, it is a factor I’ve been thinking about – and that I’m keen to see …
Category Archive: Economic growth
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Mar
26
2009
Are nations just large labour unions?
We generally allow capital and goods to flow freely between nations nowadays – which is a good thing. However, that leaves us in the situation where the whole purpose of a nation appears to be working for the benefit of labour in that country. Now it may well seem like the best thing to do …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2009/03/26/are-nations-just-large-labour-unions/
Feb
13
2009
Kiva: Individual microlending
When looking at Questionable Content (it is a webcomic – I’m addicted to watching the guy develop his drawing style!) I saw a link for a site named Kiva. To explain what this is I will leave it up to the Kiva about page. Kiva is the world’s first person-to-person micro-lending website, empowering individuals to …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2009/02/13/kiva-individual-microlending/
Jan
05
2009
Technology as king?
Over the holidays I had a little peek at “the Universe in a nutshell” by Stephen Hawking. Early on in the book he states that it is technology, not political systems or economic dogma, that has led to the vast improvement in living standards in modern times. Now to a large degree, economists agree with …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2009/01/05/technology-as-king/
Dec
03
2008
Poverty and violence in Africa
A recent article on VoxEU discusses the link between poverty and violence in Africa. It’s a tricky topic because there are good arguments to be made for causation in both directions and the direction of causation matters hugely for aid policy.
Permanent link to this article: http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2008/12/03/poverty-and-violence-in-africa/
Aug
26
2008
Happiness, policies, and economics
It is good to see the Frog Blog discussing happiness and policy – as fundamentally the goal of policy should be to promote the highest social happiness, not necessarily to promote the largest GDP number. The article that Frog links to can be found here, and on Saturday there was an article in the paper …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2008/08/26/happiness-policies-and-economics/
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