Suppose God told you that you would go to hell if the median human faith of humanity is insufficient when you die. If the median faith of humanity is good enough, then everyone goes to heaven, but if not, than…
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We need a better concept of collective morality to be able to deal with climate change
Posted in Environment, Philosophy and ethics
The rise of the Passport Bureaucracy
For most of history, passports and visas were two words for the same thing and in Europe and the US they were only occasionally required during wartime in order to exclude dangerous foreigners. In 1941, the US was again at…
Posted in Globalization & International
What caused hyperglobalization?
Paul Krugman says that transportation technology and free-trade policies caused globalization: …In the mid-1980s, world trade had recovered from the disruptions and protectionism of the interwar period, but exports as a share of world G.D.P. were still back only to…
Posted in Globalization & International
Introduction to Factfulness by Hans Rosling
Below is an excerpt of the Introduction of Factfulness by Hans Rosling that is posted for free use by the publisher, McMillan. Before reading the introduction, please take the test it is based. The test website interface is a bit…
Posted in Development, Globalization & International
Long-term trends in manufacturing, farming, and protectionism
Peter Drucker was one the most influential management scholars of the 20th century. In 2000 he wrote a special report for The Economist magazine to think about changes over the 20th century and looking towards the 21st. The 20th century…
Posted in Globalization & International
What immigration crisis?
The Pew Research Center reports data that unauthorized immigrants in the US are at the lowest level in a decade of gradual declines. Meanwhile, more and more Americans are favoring more legal immigration, so Americans aren’t suddenly becoming more nativist. …
Posted in Globalization & International, Labor
If you pay them, they will come.
Most immigrants to the United States come because of higher wages. If you look at any two countries in the world, the net migration almost always flows from low-wage nations to high wage nations because the biggest draw for migrants…
Posted in Globalization & International, Labor
Medianism 