…world’s food supply has continued to outpace population, especially in poor countries. Per hectare, farmers lifted world grain yields 2.1 percent annually between 1960-1996. Frontiers for even more agricultural improvement…
…“Travel characteristics in cities of developing and developed countries”. World Bank Staff Working Paper No. 230, World Bank, Washington, DC. 6Y. Zahavi (1979) The “UMOT” Project. US Department of Transportation Report No….
…comes through both hardware and software, through both markets and regulation. Markets allow us to average over larger spaces and longer times, lessening the consequence, for example, of a poor…
…or react to the performance evaluation. Unscheduled events arising exogenously or because of some condition within the simulation: e.g., a stock-market crash, a dean or professor pleads a case or…
…Bank, the World Wildlife Fund, Council on Foreign Relations, and Rockefeller University joined in a Great Restoration project to develop an attractive and feasible vision for the world’s forests. The…
…I find several aspects of the papers striking. Looking back to World War II, I am impressed by the quick, clever, and numerous roles international scientific cooperation played in the…
…90% of the market. In 1935 the elements tied. With business as usual, hydrogen will garner 90% of the market around 2100. Because carbon becomes soot or the feared greenhouse gas CO2,…
…DC: U.S. Government Printing Office. Maddison A. (1991) Dynamic Forces in Capitalist Development: A Long-run Comparative View. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Marchand O. (1992) ‘Une comparaison internationale de temps de travail’,…
…up in public squares. Prostitution is less subtle than in the past. The black market exchange rate appeared to make the average monthly Russian salary about 10 or 20 dollars,…
…comment. Most obviously, the Russian Revolution and World War II literally drove Russians back into the woods to collect their fuel. Yet, these extreme shocks were later absolutely absorbed. By…