economic growth
- What economic growth is (2019 update)
World GDP per capita rose ~2.7× from 1960–2014. Growth tracks science and energy—and must still translate into real social progress.
- Constants in the economy
Economics lacks what physics found in Einstein’s constants: a fixed reference that unites scarcity and abundance. What if that constant were the Earth itself?
- Why first-world nations should watch third-world growth: an answer to Krugman
Krugman on developing-world growth is right in nominal terms — but relative ranks, capital outflows, and scarce money change the story.
- Peter Diamandis on TED: Abundance is our future
Peter Diamandis’s TED talk on abundance — a bridge between economic growth and the new private space race.
- How I understand economic growth
Growth measured in work-hours, three classic models, and why the long-run data look more like unlimited ingenuity than Malthus.