Website review: Econbrowser: The distribution of wo...
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scantron27 rated 4 months ago- very interesting
- Benjmn rated 16 months ago
- An interesting look at geography and economic development and distribution. Of course, as the article admits, there are far too many variables for any of it to be conclusively proven.
- Fephisto rated 16 months ago
- Don't know why it matters, don't really care for the rest of the article either, but cool pictures XD.
- chperret rated 16 months ago
- From the page :
"there appear to be other very important and purely physical determinants of GDP"
(posted by James Hamilton at January 13, 2007 06:59 AM)wrongwelcome back to naturalism rousseauism, dear a-cultural blogger. Idealogical mireading restauring some invisible hand, forgetting all captalist history : the aera with the highest GDP are the one that colonized resources, through "peace" (marchand) or "war" (invasion) activities. They could steal and appropriate resources : material, energetic and human, to the point where they just act as places of resources captation, through fiancial and / or administrative managment. Red spot in global yellow orange Brazil is paradigmatic : The aera is far to be "near oceans", "temperate climates with adequate rainfall" and so on... The aera is Brazilia, capital city, where strategical decisions, other words, captation, is.
From the page: "By the same principle, just looking at physical features, you'd predict that Afghanistan-- a landlocked, mountainous desert-- is destined to be poor, no matter what policies they adopt."
wrong and dangerous
until 19th century colonization, Afghanistan is a prosperous place, devoided to local resource use, handwork ability stongly researched and east-Asia <> west-Asia - Europe trade. The British - USSR - CIA taliban manipulation, and actual USA covered by UN are responsible of the low and decreasing GDP of this aera.
as answer to that oriented-wanted-error : http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=1569 From the page :
"The post-colonial powers were industrial countries in their late stages, when capitalism had developed further, combining industrial and finance capital into huge monopolistic conglomerates in continual search for new acquisitions, sources of cheap raw materials and labor, and markets. The third wave of globalization marked by the emergence and eventual dominance, within the most advanced industrial countries, of the information sector -- the sector that produces, manipulates, processes, distributes and markets information products." - From the page :
- laodan rated 16 months ago
- The distribution of world income via jonson / Metafilter, in Econbrowser by James Hamilton
One of the most profound questions in economics is why are some countries rich and others poor? A paper by John Gallup, Jeffrey Sachs and Andrew Mellinger in the International Regional Science Review in 1999 introduced the concept of "GDP density", calculated by multiplying GDP per capita by the number of people per square kilometer. Basically GDP density is a measure of the total amount of economic activity that takes place at different spots on our globe. I found the map they produced quite fascinating: The distribution of world income A paper by John Gallup, Jeffrey Sachs and Andrew Mellinger in the International Regional Science Review 56 pages PDF. how much of a difference institutions can make A conceptual framework 64 pages PDF.
Not surprisingly, it looks a whole lot like those satellite pictures of the earth at night
This subject is of the utmost interest and the graphs are enlightening. But I think that the studies mentioned here above are not the best material available. Better see Fernand Braudel and his seminal work on the emergence of capitalism.
- The distribution of world income via jonson / Metafilter, in Econbrowser by James Hamilton
- x0tt rated 16 months ago
- From the page: "the concept of "GDP density", calculated by multiplying GDP per capita by the number of people per square kilometer. Basically GDP density is a measure of the total amount of economic activity that takes place at different spots on our globe. I found the map they produced quite fascinating:"
