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Countdown to Lift - The Race to Build a Space Elevator
Category: Blog/Analysis
... colonies, it is inevitable that conflict will arise. The colonies are unlikely to be places where countries dump their poor. As the wealthiest and most capable leave the Earth, the balance of wealth ... Thursday, 21 January 2010 -
Getting democracy right one restaurant at a time
Category: Blog/Analysis
... aid and negotiation will convert even the most recalcitrant of dictatorships into wealthy democracies. The people at the receiving end of voting and aid don’t seem to see things the same way. Their confusion, ... Thursday, 14 January 2010 -
Predicting the future isn't what it used to be
Category: Blog/Analysis
... getting wealthier and demanding to use more energy-sapping devices. A battery does a good job of powering up one flashlight. Connect it up to 200 flashlights and it will be gone in a moment. If you ... Thursday, 07 January 2010 -
Nestle, Mugabe and the Devil’s Alternative
Category: Blog/Analysis
... times are bad, people may lash out at these obvious symbols of value. Conversely, when times are good, people may just as easily protest that they aren’t getting their share of that wealth. Either way, ... Thursday, 31 December 2009 -
Kenya and the mixed expectations of technical investment
Category: Blog/Analysis
The wealthiest Kenyans are barely distinguishable from the poorest South Africans, yet East Africa is now a flurry of excitement as investors congregate. In August, the first of three major undersea ... Thursday, 17 December 2009 -
Self-sufficiency implies a tolerable level of dead babies
Category: Blog/Analysis
... state, things declined. 100 years ago skill differentiation and division of labour was not that complex. In order to become wealthy in 1909 required much simpler skills than it does in 2009. A group ... Thursday, 10 December 2009 -
The delicate subject of patents
Category: Blog/Analysis
... yield on the cost of ownership. This works so well that it has formed the bedrock of the path to wealth and economic stability. The problem comes in when we consider the property created by our minds. ... Thursday, 03 December 2009 -
A return to subsistence farming won’t aid economic recovery
Category: Blog/Analysis
... leads to a greater return on that effort. It also leaves time for innovation. That innovation triggers further division of labour and creates more opportunities and wealth. None of this can happen, ... Thursday, 26 November 2009 -
American healthcare reform is merely a warm-up for the rest of us
Category: Blog/Analysis
... over US healthcare reform. The world’s wealthiest nation is in a lather over a proposal that hasn’t even been officially formulated yet. Both sides yank in the UK’s National Health Service as proof of ... Thursday, 19 November 2009 -
The privilege of employment
Category: Blog/Analysis
... correlated with overall economic wealth. Tiny and impoverished Burundi has a participation rate of 93% because societies based on subsistence farming need everyone to work. Wealthy and sophisticated ... Thursday, 30 July 2009 -
Profitable Businesses Create Sustainable Jobs
Category: Blog/Analysis
... rise and succeed. There are smart, productive and profitable companies thriving even during this global recession. Do we really want to blow the budget of taxpayer’s hard-earned wealth on propping up ... Sunday, 19 July 2009 -
The Internet, Sockpuppets, and the Broken Tail
Category: Research & Ideas/Ideas
Why is the Internet like Zimbabwe ... a country where 12 million people survive in a turbulent, informal market, dominated by wealthy dictators, with 11 million percent inflation, and no rule of law? Because ... Thursday, 16 July 2009 -
When Influence Trumps Ability Forget Investment
Category: Blog/Analysis
... support and, as Julius II, he ruled the world's most powerful and wealthy organisation for 10 years. Bribery in order to secure high office, and the corruption that follows, is hardly new. The impact ... Wednesday, 24 June 2009 -
The risk of upending the tax base
Category: Blog/Analysis
... of the economic system. However, poor and autocratic societies tend to be more unequal than wealthy and free ones. And even where income disparities are wide (as in the US, where the poorest 20% of Americans ... Wednesday, 29 April 2009 -
Where did South African manufacturing go?
Category: Blog/Analysis
... people a year moving out of the state. Despite this, California had a GDP of $ 1.8 trillion in 2007, making it not only America’s most wealthy region, but – if it were a country – the ... Wednesday, 22 April 2009 -
Entrenching the Wealth Gap
Category: Blog/Analysis
Big City ... beyond the shacks Ex-President Thabo Mbeki used to lament conspicuous consumption by the wealthy, even as governments of the world push trillions of dollars of borrowed cash at consumers ... Wednesday, 04 March 2009 -
Stimulating economic development by promoting price discovery
Category: Blog/Analysis
... is simple: the world's poorest countries and regions have very poor price discovery mechanisms. Saudi Arabia has used their oil wealth to desalinate sea-water and use that water to irrigate vast sections ... Tuesday, 17 February 2009 -
Taxing the poor so that the rich can buy expensive cars
Category: Blog/Analysis
Helping the rich... Taxes are regressive. They fall more heavily on the wealthy than on the poor, partly because the rich have more money, and partly because one of the objectives of taxes is the politically ... Wednesday, 19 November 2008 -
Prediction Markets for the Poor
Category: Blog/Analysis
... of cash, what would they spend it on? The creation of a prediction market to allow sub-economic groups to trade for the goods that they would most like, and which they believe will create more wealth ... Wednesday, 15 October 2008 -
After Conceit: Recovering from the Credit Crunch
Category: Blog/Analysis
The wealth of nations Wealth is created through an economic sleight of hand. All the money in circulation is a promise, not only of the value already in existence, but of the future value that people ... Sunday, 12 October 2008
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