‘Population explosion’ is soooo … 1970s

It’s a small world after all — and not in the way that Disney meant.
Dr. Jeff Cornwall has written about ominous trends in declining worldwide fertility rates, as illustrated in the documentary movie Demographic Winter.
The trends are that people aren’t getting married, aren’t having babies or aren’t having as many babies as they used to. [...]

Economic development versus economic growth

Here’s an idea I sort of tossed out for a paragraph or two in the latest issue of The MicroEnterprise Journal, without exploring it as much as I wanted to:
The efforts of policy makers to cause economic growth frequently conflict with the effort of local and regional authority to cause economic development.
That is probably what [...]

In defense of ‘marginal’ microbusinesses

Given the details of this ongoing debate, I’m glad I posted what I did yesterday.
So, here we go again.
I’m not going to bother restating the arguments put forward by either Professor Shane or Dr. Cornwall, but I would like to point out once again that there seem to be any number of economists who have [...]

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