Let me share with you the most impressive number of our generation: 600 million. That is how many people have been lifted out of extreme poverty in the last 25 years. Never before in history have so many raised themselves to a minimum level of comfort. The poverty line is a matter of controversy, as […]
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Deixe-me compartilhar contigo o número mais impressionante de nossa geração: 600 milhões. Esse é o número de pessoas que foram retiradas da pobreza extrema nos últimos 25 anos. Nunca antes na história tantas pessoas alcançaram um nível mínimo de conforto. A linha de pobreza é uma questão controversa, já que não há consenso universalmente aceito,
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Check out Rocket Singh, Salesman of the Year, an engaging movie with a healthy business ethics kick. The main character is a young college graduate with mediocre grades who lands a job at a computer sales company. He is soon confronted with corrupt-but-usual practices in the company, and his naïveté puts him on the fast
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Why did the modern economic revolution in production and trade first happen in north-western Europe? At the APEE conference, Deirdre McCloskey delivered a plenary address based on her new book, Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can’t Explain the Modern World. Her argument is that neither material resources nor technology nor capital accumulation nor geographical factors drove
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The latest issue of Kaizen [pdf] features my interview with the excellent Eduardo Marty, founder of Junior Achievement in Argentina as well as in several other south and central American countries — including Cuba, before he and his professors were arrested for teaching entrepreneurship and kicked out of the country. The theme of the interview
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For much of the twentieth century, poverty and stagnation characterized India’s economic life, yet India has transformed itself and prospects for its 1.1 billion people have improved dramatically. Economics professor Nimish Adhia recently spoke at Rockford College on how Bollywood films both signaled and contributed to the cultural shift necessary for India’s economic liberalization to
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Economics professor Nimish Adhia will give a talk at Rockford College on Friday, September 24. His theme will be India’s setting itself on the road to prosperity and how Bollywood films both signaled and contributed to the cultural shift necessary for economic liberalization to occur. For much of the twentieth century, poverty and stagnation characterized
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