Income inequality in the United States isn’t a “serious” problem, it definitely exists but as shown in the graph on “vox” it is not as redistributed as in other countries. Taxes on high income persons are already very high and since there is a dwindling middle class it makes the gap that much bigger. But … Continue reading Unit 7- Future and Income Inequality
Income inequality in the United States isn’t a “serious” problem, it definitely exists but as shown in the graph on “vox” it is not as redistributed as in other countries. Taxes on high income persons are already very high and since there is a dwindling middle class it makes the gap that much bigger. But … Continue reading Unit 7- Future and Income Inequality
For my book review I will be doing “Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed”.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2015/03/british-budgets-1935-and-2015
I found this article interesting because tactics used in 1935 can still be effective in 2015 in a major country. To me, it feels like things have changed so much over the…
After viewing the Gapminder and Rolsing pieces I realized how wrong my thoughts were on the state of our world. With regards to the survey I was in the group that had some wrong ideas on our developing world, especially the question on the current numbers of those living in extreme poverty in the last 20 … Continue reading Gapminder and Rosling
I find what Canada wants to do very interesting with a no strings attached cash grant to those in need. I think for the most part they can trust that the money will be spent on the proper things by families, but also I think there will always be some people on the other side … Continue reading Should the Poor Be Trusted
I looked at the Gapminder World graph that showed the life expectancy vs. children born per women and can’t believe how fast some of the life expectancies grew. Yemen 1950, the life expectancy was 23, 63 years later it grew to 67! The lowest life expectancy as of 2013 was 48 in a country in … Continue reading Global Trends in Life Expectancy
The four traps pointed out by Paul Collier I found very interesting, especially when dealing with countries that have resources such as oil, but yet it seems like that country is still stagnant or moving backwards economically. These countries are either dealing with constant conflict and war, corrupt government, or more than likely, both. Conflicts … Continue reading The Bottom Billion
It’s hard for me to grasp the complex trading that went on during the years of world exploration and the claiming of the America’s by European countries. It seems that trade was almost the backbone of Europe and Asia’s economies, and that after countries like Spain and England made their stake in the Americas their … Continue reading Early Trade
The assigned readings that weren’t in the Madison book made me realize how some countries that weren’t apart of the eras of exploration or that weren’t highly populated had a large economic hole to dig themselves out of. At a first glance of a third world country its hard to wrap your head around how … Continue reading Unit 2