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FREE GROWTH AND OTHER SURPRISES Draft Gordon Getty HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_010912 FOREWORD BY THE AUTHOR How Come This Book? A few months ago, Robert Trivers was kind enough to send me his new book. The title is “Wild Life”. Perfect two ways. Bob is a world authority on wildlife, to wit evolutionary biolog
OR How Come This Book? A few months ago, Robert Trivers was kind enough to send me his new book. The titl
Wealth of Nations published in 1776, proposed growth by belt tightening. Most tradition has agreed, with the proviso that new ideas must come first. Solow raised doubts about the role of consumption restraint, but stopped short of denying a need for it. Mill acknowledged both ways to grow. My charts and
twice. Chapter 4 will restate it in terms of total including human capital just to make sure. It is an unsettling argument either way. It unsettled Solow. Chapter 2 showed why. Weare probably more comfortable to think of income as something known which we can slice into consumption and saving slices a
can choose) because males with their now ill-adapted anti-parasite (histocampatability) genes will find few willing mates. This begins the part from Trivers. I'll come to Alexander’s later. Mothers in the source deme see an opposite picture. Conditions are not necessarily better than before, but they ar
te for eight nations over four to fourteen decades. They will show the same for dividends when we come to that. Economists would be less surprised. Solow has prepared them for the news. In 1956 and 1957 he showed evidence that most growth is not explained by capital accumulation, or saving through cons
ard for both sexes. R. A. Fisher in 1930, and Bob Trivers in 1972, suggested why. Males, in humans, produce
Macroeconomics 2/8/16 23 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011112 I would tax capital gains as much as ordinary income for the same reason. Level the playing field. Solow saw most of the truth, but didn’t go far enough. Mill saw more. And even Mill stopped short. All we have to do is look at the charts and tables. Capi
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