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They enable farmers to produce higher yields with fewer inputs (such as pesticides), so that more food can be produced from existing farmland.
As we explore in our book Engineers of Jihad, since the 1970s, a disproportionate share of Islamist radicals have pursued hard technical fields rather than softer subjects that offer fewer clear answers.
Fewer people are dying on battlefields than during previous periods for which we have data; and, at least until a few years ago, the share of people living under more or less representative governments was gradually increasing.
To be sure, there are not as many farmers today as in past decades or centuries;Lancashire’s cotton mills, Pittsburgh’s steel plants, and Duisburg’s coal mines have closed; and there are far fewer workers in Northern Sweden’s vast forests.
At most modern firms, fewer than 15% of the positions are open for entry-level workers, meaning that employers demand something that the education system cannot – and is not expected – to provide.
The world needs fewer hedgehogs and more foxes.
Given that productivity has not been picking up, fewer workers mean significantly lower potential growth rates.
There are fewer measures that actively promote the equality of women.
As a result of these two factors, established institutions – particularly the large banks – will be inclined to do fewer things for fewer people, despite being flush with liquidity provided by central banks (the “liquidity paradox”).
In a city with more far-sighted planning controls, there would have been fewer lives lost and less damage.
But, because hospitals are paid a fee for each service they provide, and better care meant that the babies needed fewer services, the change cost the hospital network $329,000 a year.
Productivity growth and innovation benefit countries not by helping them to compete with other countries, but by enabling them to produce and consume more, or to produce and consume the same amount with fewer resources.
Of course, the best type of productivity growth in services results from innovation that improves quality rather than increases quantity with the same or fewer resources, notably labor.
Productivity growth should not result in fewer employees taking care of more patients, students, and old people.
There were fewer workers making boots and shoes, but more workers manufacturing chemicals, constructing buildings, and operating the turnkey at the Wellman-Lord Construction Company’s Florida-based phosphate-processing plants and other factories.
While some parts of the world are experiencing more and worse droughts, others are experiencing fewer and lighter droughts.
In fact, current efforts to provide women with effective contraception are meeting women’s expressed desires to have fewer children.
They found that tsetse have fewer genes for olfactory and gustation receptors, and more genes for detecting carbon dioxide – key to helping them find a host.
But raising prices is likely to mean losing market share, implying fewer employees to meet demand.
We are entering a new historical cycle, in which there will be proportionally fewer Westerners, more Africans and Middle Easterners, and – with greater relevance economically and strategically – many more Asians.
All have flexible exchange rates, a large war chest of reserves to shield against a run on their currencies and banks, and fewer currency mismatches (for example, heavy foreign-currency borrowing to finance investment in local-currency assets).
Such vehicles would be programmed to avoid crashes, leading to fewer deaths and injuries and less property damage.
The fact is that we need fewer efficient-markets theorists and more people who work on microstructure, limits to arbitrage, and cognitive biases.
We need fewer equilibrium business-cycle theorists and more old-fashioned Keynesians and monetarists.
We need more monetary historians and historians of economic thought and fewer model-builders.
Liberalizing labor markets, cutting pervasive red-tape and subsidies would have produced more taxpayers and fewer hangers-on.
During the last general election, in 2013, female voter turnout was less than 10% at 800 polling stations across the country, and in 17 districts, fewer than 5% of eligible female voters cast a ballot.
In Europe there was no continental market because of national tariffs, and fewer economies of scale were attained.
China’s state-owned economy is far less bloated today; the central and local governments have fewer compatibility problems; the country’s fiscal position is strong; and relative macroeconomic stability prevails.
Before, there were fewer readers and writers, but they were the same people, and had relatively direct access to each other’s work.
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