Long before anyone reading this column was born, I asked my grandmother one day what she had majored in in college. My grandmother said, "Home Economics."
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I'm told that in the US today we waste 30% of the food we buy. We just throw it into the garbage, along with the plastic utensils we eat it with. We waste energy too: in North Carolina when it's 100 degrees in the summer you still have to take a sweater to work so you don't catch a cold in the air conditioning. And we spew exhaust and other sinister invisible stuff into the air we breathe and the water we drink.
While you're here, how about this:
Not just a first-world problem - Emerging economies are experiencing a prolonged productivity
H OW DO MODERN innovations stack up with those of the past? Some economists, such as Robert Gordon of Northwestern University, argue that driverless cars, 3D printers and so on pale into insignificance compared with the fruits of previous industrial revolutions, such as mass production (see Free exchange). That, they think, explains a prolonged productivity slowdown in America and other rich economies that the financial crisis deepened.
But what about everywhere else? Developing countries are, by definition, some distance from the technological frontier. One consolation of their position is the vast backlog of past innovations that remain for them to exploit more fully. Their growth depends more on imitation than innovation. A country where most people still ride scooters does not have to worry if the next Tesla fails to arrive on schedule.
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Missouri S&T – News and Events – Expert commentary: Super Bowl victory an
Whichever team wins the Super Bowl on Feb. 2 – the Kansas City Chiefs or the San Francisco 49ers – the economy of the winning team's region can expect some additional income as a result of the win, according to Dr. Michael Davis, interim chair and associate professor of economics at Missouri University of Science and Technology.
Davis has studied the economic impact of successful National Football League franchises. In research conducted with Dr. Christian End, an associate professor of psychology at Xavier University, Davis found that NFL teams that win 10 or 11 games – usually enough to make the playoffs – spur about $100 additional income per capita into their communities. A team that wins the Super Bowl would bring another $20 "bonus" per capita to that team's local economy, Davis says.
Why the World Economic Forum Is Creating a Blockchain 'Bill of Rights' - CoinDesk
Sheila Warren is the Head of Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology at the World Economic Forum. Sumedha Deshmukh is a Project Specialist on the Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology team at the World Economic Forum. The opinions expressed here are their own.
If the last few years have taught us one thing, it's this: users are not magically protected as technology evolves. Rather, user protection is something that occurs as the result of intention, commitment and deliberate design. Without this dedication from the outset, the trajectory of a technology's development can, and often does, carry significant and far-reaching consequences.
Dori: Sawant's second head tax shows no understanding of economics
It was two years ago when the City of Seattle proposed a $275-per-employee head tax on the city’s largest businesses that would have raised $40 million per year. Now Sawant wants to octuple that. Instead of $40 million per year, she wants over $300 million per year. This would not have a sunset clause, meaning it would be in place indefinitely.
Did she get her economics degree at a prize out of a box of Cracker Jacks? She clearly knows nothing about economics.
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What an incredibly moving piece by @aditipriya_0301, written with so much insight without a trace of self-pity but… https://t.co/BHV3ktk2jz guptar (from India) Thu Jan 16 15:13:01 +0000 2020
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