Through worldwide gender gap indicators, we can see that Iceland can optimize productivity and human capital through a small gender gap.…
Marriage Markets in China and India
With son preference, limited fertility and social norms, China’s and India’s sex ratios at birth have created a male glut and new marriage markets.…
Bringing The Martian Down to Earth
For pure enjoyment The Martian is a good read but also it helps us recognize how travel to Mars has and will have positive externalities on earth.…
India's Height Mystery
Long assumed to have a direct relationship, the connection between height and GDP becomes more complex when we compare India and Africa.…
Part 1: What To Do When More People Are Old
As population shifts, developed nations will have redistribution decisions as the proportion of the non-working aged and the young need more labor income.…
The Reason For Our Chocolate Problem
The chocolate deficit is a supply and demand story with weather and fungus problems on the supply side and demand up from developing nations.…
Three Big Questions About the GDP
GDP problems include that it’s not calculated the same way in different countries, its data can be tough to gather, and its components omit important items.…
The Reason One Starbucks Can't Ask Your Name
Even for a huge multinational like Starbucks, competing globally requires knowledgeable monopolistic competition and knowing local tastes and habits.…
What Refrigerators Can Tell Us About Global Markets
In refrigerators in developing nations, we can see the impact of affluence on their diet and on supply and demand that will change worldwide food prices.…
The Difference Between India's Stories and Statistics
There is a village in Southern India called Kadapakkam. It had been a home to farmers and fishermen whose thatched huts had no running water and no electrical appliances. At traditional tea shops loca…