Showing posts with label demographics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label demographics. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Quote of the Day: The Benefits of Population Growth

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The benefits of population growth come from the fact that the more people there are in the world, the more people you have to interact wit...
Sunday, February 10, 2013

Quote of the Day: Greatest Costs of Declining Fertility Are Missed Opportunities

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Because the greatest costs of declining fertility aren't visible disasters, but missed opportunities .  The millions and billions of p...
Thursday, June 14, 2012

Quote of the Day: Welfare Crisis Aggravated by Demographics

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Demography is destiny. If so, then the future will be challenging in many countries around the world where fertility rates have dropp...
Saturday, March 17, 2012

Graphic: Spending Patterns of Americans Over Time

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Below is a sample from a deck of graphs depicting the intertemporal changes in the spending habits of Americans Writes the Business Insi...
Thursday, July 14, 2011

Will We be part of the 100 years old Club?

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Will we live to be 100 years old? Me, no. Maybe for you and the younger generation the chances are likely a yes. The rapid advances in t...
Thursday, May 19, 2011

Can We Survive a World with 9 billion people?

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Prolific author Matt Ridley says yes (bold emphasis mine)... We trebled yields in the last 60 years without taking extra land under th...
Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Restricting Social Mobility Equals Poverty

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Economist Bill Easterly commenting on the incidences of ghost towns in the US makes a point where restriction of social mobility leads to im...
Wednesday, April 06, 2011

Will Younger Political Leaders Translate to an Overhaul in the Welfare System of the West?

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I came across this Economist chart which says that the age of western leaders appear to be getting younger. The Economist writes , TH...
Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Will Falling Population (Demographic Time Bomb) Lead To A Reversal Of Globalization?

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Lately I have encountered several commentaries suggesting that the “demographic time bomb” (falling population) will pose a risk to globaliz...
Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Reductio Ad Absurdum on Wage Disparities, Supply of Labor and Exports

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In trying to demonstrate the importance of the distinction between causation and correlation, my favorite marketing guru Seth Godin asks “D...
Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Migration Twist: Many Britons Desire Relocation While Filipinos Want To Stay Home

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It would seem as no news for us to hear people from developing nations yearn to emigrate to developed nations mostly to seek greener pasture...
Saturday, August 07, 2010

The Brain Drain Nonsense

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In reading media, it’s just amazing how incurably specious their treatment of social issues are. Take for example the recent issue on supp...
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Tuesday, August 03, 2010

Demographic Nightmares 2

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George Magnus writes , ``capitalism rewards scarcity, and as labour supply fades relative to the availability of capital, returns will shi...