October 26, 2014
While a misery index shows a nation's inflation and unemployment rates, the eurozone's high unemployment might create disproportionate unhappiness.
October 16, 2014
With populations growing older in the developed world, their wellbeing might affect the GDP growth rate because of the expense of their care.
October 12, 2014
Since education creates positive externalities that fuel economic growth, understanding how to develop expertise through human capital formation is crucial.
September 28, 2014
Knowing about how and when creative people achieve optimal productivity is important because of the connection between human capital and economic growth.
September 14, 2014
We need to raise the low U.S. savings rate with new incentives like a lottery on savings deposits because households and business investment need savings.
August 31, 2014
From statistics and a satellite image of the world at night, we can see that developing countries lack the electrification they need for economic growth.
August 28, 2014
Led by Chinese economic growth and other emerging markets, the center of economic gravity is moving eastward from the developed world to Asia.
August 17, 2014
Looking at a European average economic growth rate, unemployment rate and GDP to debt ratio is misleading because of countries' disparate economies.
August 12, 2014
In refrigerators in developing nations, we can see the impact of affluence on their diet and on supply and demand that will change worldwide food prices.
August 11, 2014
The 2014 Social Security Trustees Report says that after we deplete the remains of the program's trust funds in 2033, payroll taxes will not provide all promised benefits.
August 5, 2014
Cash grants are an alternative form of foreign aid. Tough to accept, cash could have more benefits than other traditional programs.
August 4, 2014
The spread of refrigeration in China has positive and negative externalities that relate to household diets, greenhouse gases and transport and home waste.