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- Barstool Economics
Forwarded from Joe:
Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to $100. If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this:
The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing.
The fifth would pay $1.
The sixth would pay $3.
The seventh [...]
- Pyramid of Capitalist System
Image randomly found on Wikipedia. It is a 1911 critique of capitalism advocating unionism. I think it reflects nicely how unionism is about “me” getting my gains, and not about the group/humanity at all.
- What the world eats
A gallery of food expenditure for one week, around the world.
- G8 2008
The next Group of Eight Summit will be held in Hokkaido where Curzon will be biking around over the next ten days. Tokyo has been making all sorts announcements in preparation for the summit. One story that has been featured in the news is the readiness of the Japanese National Police Agency’s Counter-Terrorist Special Assault [...]
- Mythbusting Global Migration
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NPR tests the “knowns, unknowns and presumeds” of global migration in an interesting article I recommend you read. It is closely related to Curzon’s recent work on Demographics.
One myth I would like to draw your attention to is about the flow of people between the Gap and the Core:
Most migration is from [...]
- Chicken and Egg
Does Africa get aid because it is poor or is it poor because it gets aid? A Kenyan economist speaking to Der Spiegel thinks the latter. Readers?
- Ask Yourself
The Economist has a great cover article on the current state of globalization, and the report is not good.
Since 2001 the pay of the typical worker in the United States has been stuck, with real wages growing less than half as fast as productivity. If you look back 20 years, the total pay of the [...]
- Stealing steel
From the Economist’s weekly newsletter on Tokyo:
Tokyo’s street furniture is falling prey to thieves. Mountains of pavement gratings, storm-drain covers and electrical cables are being moved from the capital along the bay to Yokohama, where ships are said to arrive from China to carry it away.
Yokohama police believe the crime spree is related to preparations [...]
- Jihad Tax
I recently had the opportunity to attend a seminar on foreign investment in Libya, which has spent this year making great efforts to attract overseas investment in its oil fields. American, Japanese, and French countries are winning the largest number of concession agreements in recent bids, but there is much left to be explored. [...]
- Canadian squeaky wheel politics
Ha ha! Lucien Bouchard, a former big whig separatist from the Parti Québécois, has stirred the poutine by telling his fellow French Canadians that they don’t work hard enough. He said “Quebec trails Ontario and the United States in economic terms, in part because its residents lack the same work ethic.”
Quebec labour leaders are — [...]
