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So, it is actually misleading to say that a typical person today is 20 times richer than his or her Agrarian Age predecessor, because consumer choices now extend far beyond the goods and services that were broadly available back then.
While the rich got richer, the poor did not get poorer, but the gap between rich and poor expanded significantly.
But a richer alternative was available, one that would guarantee a broad right of private individuals (and their associations and organizations) to be protected from unnecessary interference by public powers.
We cannot impose an ecological rhythm on people who are poorer than we are when it is the very fact that we freed ourselves from that rhythm that made us richer.
For decades they have created a zone where war has become unthinkable, where might is not right, where the poorer catch up with the richer.
And I find that his announcement accords with my own experience: “[Being gay has] made me more empathetic, which has led to a richer life.
To encourage less deforestation – and more reforestation – the best thing we can do is help undeveloped nations get richer, faster.
Equally important will be whether Western countries cooperate to create a long-term strategy of cultural and educational exchanges that can help develop a richer and more open civil society in Middle Eastern countries.
The Globalization of Old AgeAnti-globalization campaigners gripe that the rich are getting richer.
Fertility reductions in the richer parts of the world have already brought population growth rates close to zero.
It helps that wealth transfers generally flow toward poorer individuals or households, especially from richer parents to poorer children.
As a typical country becomes richer, more educated, and more politically open, support for democracy and readiness for civic engagement rise, and obedience to authority and support for patriarchal values fall.
Worries that we are losing forests overlook the reality that as countries become richer, they increase their forest cover.
And as countries become richer, they can afford to regulate and cut even outdoor air pollution.
What makes the energy imposed as a tax substitution tax particularly attractive as a defense measure is that it leaves the welfare state intact while making Europe safer, greener, and richer.
As we examine orthologs, the proteins become more degraded, or richer in dehydrons, in species with a lower effective population – a somewhat elusive indicator inversely related to the size and complexity of the organism and to the complexity of its reproductive pattern.
A protein that is richer in dehydrons than its ortholog is more vulnerable to becoming disrupted by surrounding water.
The reasons for the shift from goods to services are much the same as the earlier reasons for the shift from agriculture to industry: as people grew richer, they spent a higher share of their income on nonagricultural goods and a smaller share on food.
As our societies have become richer, we have come to believe that everyone is entitled to a minimum standard, whether in work or sickness or unemployment, which allows for a continuing level of comfort and flourishing.
In many ways, the foundations for building more inclusive societies – societies that are ultimately richer and politically stable – must be laid in the countryside.
But while they did help rich people become richer, there is no evidence that they delivered faster growth or higher incomes for the middle class.
Moreover, credit growth has accelerated and asset prices have risen – trends that will encourage consumption by triggering the wealth effect (when people spend more because they feel richer).
Yet with the richest countries richer than ever before, and with much of the developing world already escaped from the horrors of extreme poverty, the balance has shifted in favor of ending global poverty.
When American wealth seemed to be growing year after year as the stock market boomed, this was understandable; individual Americans were becoming richer without savings, so why bother?
Just because most economists are not rich does not mean that they have not made many people richer.
To be sure, there is nothing wrong with scientific practices evolving along with technology, or with academics using richer data sets and better software.
Americans and Europeans blithely assume that China will become more like them as its economy develops and its population gets richer.
As economies develop and become richer, manufacturing – “making things” – inevitably becomes less important.
In a boom, this may seem irrelevant; but, as De Gregorio knows, pressure on emerging markets – and richer countries – arises all too often, and frequently at unexpected moments.
Across the developed and developing worlds, many suspect that the rich are getting richer because they are not held to the same rules as everyone else.
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