ARNOLD KLING
October 14, 2011
Business Innovation in a Free State
October 13, 2011
The Legacy of Sargent and Sims
October 13, 2011
Caught My Eye
October 12, 2011
David Leonhardt Signals a Bottom
October 11, 2011
Comments on Servants
BRYAN CAPLAN
October 14, 2011
Teachers and Income: What Did the Kindergarten Study Really Find?
October 12, 2011
Progress, Academics, Streetlights, and Keys
October 12, 2011
When They Take Over, We'll Be Them
October 11, 2011
Financial Dysfunction: Who Shares the Blame?
October 7, 2011
Misvocational Education
DAVID HENDERSON
October 14, 2011
The Top 1 Percent Includes You
October 14, 2011
Russ Roberts on Motivations for Belief
October 11, 2011
Henderson on Sargent and Sims Nobel
October 9, 2011
Robert Solow on Sylvia Nasar
October 7, 2011
How Important Was Smoot-Hawley?
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What about Africa?
What is this Africa you speak of?
The scary part for me is that I read the blurb before I saw the link to the Onion and I did not doubt for one second that it was true. It seems so depressingly plausible that some polticians would pat themselves on the back for the handling of the Afghan war, 9/11 and everything that has happened in the past 10 years.
Unprecedented peace, yes.
Unprecedented prosperity no, since "last decade" includes 2008-10.
Noah: seems pretty good if you are Chinese, Indian (or Australian, but there are not that many of us). So, yes, unprecedented prosperity.
Yes, excellent relative peace and prosperity on a global scale. My only quibble is whether or not our global economic success really will survive much longer. It's unclear as to whether we're selling forward the pain.
According to the PDF-linked Brookings study, the global poverty rate is now 15% - the same as in the United States. Can that be correct?