Re: Top 10 Economic Puzzles

[fabio guillermo rojas]

On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Robin Hanson wrote:
> Fabio wrote:
> >What are the big unsolved puzzles of economic empirical research?

Robin wrote: 
> 
> 1) Why do people live so much longer today than they used to?

Granted technological change and increased wealth, why is this such 
a mystery?

> 2) Why are some nations rich and others poor?

Are you claiming that we have little or no knowledge about this topic?

> 5) Why do the young ignore lifestyle advice from the old?

That's a good one. I still haven't heard any good theories.

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