Economia
Boa leitura para o final de semana
A World Connected - Superstar Tsunamis v. Silent Killers
Trecho: Today, however, the WHO is adrift in a sea of political correctitude. It gives lip service to Third World needs, but devotes a lot of attention to First World concerns like obesity, traffic deaths, cancer and global warming. But Asian children dying of vitamin A deficiency and malnutrition hardly need to worry about obesity. African villagers are much more likely to be struck down by sleeping sickness than by an errant car. Indian and Bolivian mothers, hacking away from tuberculosis or wasting away from dysentery, are not immediately concerned with global warming either.
As to conjectural theories of catastrophic global climate change, Danish environmentalist Bjorn Lomborg calculates that the Kyoto treaty would slash annual global economic growth by $150 billion – to cut hypothetical temperature increases by 0.3 degrees by 2050. Maybe this is a noble goal, but everything comes at a cost. For half that amount, Lomberg says, we could provide clean water, proper sanitation, quality education and modern healthcare for every poor person on the planet. And if these NGOs were really thinking about the world’s poor, they might insist that leaders in these countries build in the institutions that would help them develop rights, wealth and infrastructure internally.
- 21 Citações De Henry Ford
There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: make the best quality goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible. Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success. Don’t...
- O Estado De Bem-estar E Inovação
Cant We All Be More Like Scandinavians? Asymmetric Growth and Institutions in an Interdependent World Daron Acemoglu MIT James A. Robinson Harvard Thierry Verdier Paris School of Economics September 2012. Abstract Because of their more limited...
- Distribuição Da Riqueza Global
Millionaires Control 39% of Global WealthAccording to the latest Global Wealth Report from Credit Suisse, the 29.7 million people in the world with household net worths of $1 million (representing less than 1% of the world’s population) control about...
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Duas formas de gerar crescimento A World Connected - Two Approaches to Development Trecho: Contrast this Forbes article - which describes how a global corporation brings production knowledge and trust to developing countries - with a recent NYT...
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Bom humor: o dilema da cooperação internacional Um trecho pequeno do mais novo livro do engraçadíssimo P.J. O'Rourke: "We were going to stop global warming by signing the Kyoto protocol on greenhouse gas emissions. Then we realized the Kyoto...
Economia
Boa leitura para o final de semana
A World Connected - Superstar Tsunamis v. Silent Killers
Trecho: Today, however, the WHO is adrift in a sea of political correctitude. It gives lip service to Third World needs, but devotes a lot of attention to First World concerns like obesity, traffic deaths, cancer and global warming. But Asian children dying of vitamin A deficiency and malnutrition hardly need to worry about obesity. African villagers are much more likely to be struck down by sleeping sickness than by an errant car. Indian and Bolivian mothers, hacking away from tuberculosis or wasting away from dysentery, are not immediately concerned with global warming either.
As to conjectural theories of catastrophic global climate change, Danish environmentalist Bjorn Lomborg calculates that the Kyoto treaty would slash annual global economic growth by $150 billion – to cut hypothetical temperature increases by 0.3 degrees by 2050. Maybe this is a noble goal, but everything comes at a cost. For half that amount, Lomberg says, we could provide clean water, proper sanitation, quality education and modern healthcare for every poor person on the planet. And if these NGOs were really thinking about the world’s poor, they might insist that leaders in these countries build in the institutions that would help them develop rights, wealth and infrastructure internally.
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- 21 Citações De Henry Ford
There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: make the best quality goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible. Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success. Don’t...
- O Estado De Bem-estar E Inovação
Cant We All Be More Like Scandinavians? Asymmetric Growth and Institutions in an Interdependent World Daron Acemoglu MIT James A. Robinson Harvard Thierry Verdier Paris School of Economics September 2012. Abstract Because of their more limited...
- Distribuição Da Riqueza Global
Millionaires Control 39% of Global WealthAccording to the latest Global Wealth Report from Credit Suisse, the 29.7 million people in the world with household net worths of $1 million (representing less than 1% of the world’s population) control about...
-
Duas formas de gerar crescimento A World Connected - Two Approaches to Development Trecho: Contrast this Forbes article - which describes how a global corporation brings production knowledge and trust to developing countries - with a recent NYT...
-
Bom humor: o dilema da cooperação internacional Um trecho pequeno do mais novo livro do engraçadíssimo P.J. O'Rourke: "We were going to stop global warming by signing the Kyoto protocol on greenhouse gas emissions. Then we realized the Kyoto...