My recommendation would not be to simply measure distance from equator, but
average of median annual temperature, for many places with the same
latitude have widely differing temperatures. (For instance, London, where
I am, is parallel to the Maritimes in Canada, but the temperature is
Very true Rick,
De Beers has often reacted to threats to the diamond price (for instance
that caused by the break-up of the Soviet Union) by marketing new types of
jewellery. However, it also takes steps to remove large quantities of stones
from the market. Its buying up and dumping Namibian
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 02:12:37PM -0500, M. A. Johnson wrote
Those 'wealthiest' persons currently 'contribute' a 33% 'share'
of the income taxes extracted while only creating 15% of the
earnings.
Are there statistics as to what different fractions of society
contribute and receive to/from
Alexander Guerrero wrote:
I think that Aztecs are nearer to the north than to the equator!!!
Alexander Guerrero
Mexico City is around 20' N, putting it on the northern part of the
tropics.
--
Prof. Bryan Caplan
Department of Economics
Consumers also derive utility from attriobutes of paint other than simply
colour. i.e branding, lifestyle association eg idyllic country cottage lilac
etc that may make the price differential justifiable.
David
Often a professional painter will buy the paint and enter it as an
expense,
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fabio guillermo rojas wrote:
Observation: A lot of cultures close to the equator seem to have been
wealthy compared to Europe before the rise of the West aftyer 1500. The
conquistadors compared Technotitlan to Cordoba (the wealthy Spanish
coastal city) and various Arabic cultures close to
Coincidentally enough, i just finished reading _Guns, Germs, and Steel_ as
well, it made for some interesting hours on the exercycle. I thought his
overall thesis was useful--the importance of existing plant and animal
resources and topography on the growth of early cultures--and he did
make
I was under the impression that there was at least another equatorial
civilization - that which arose in West Africa - Benin which, while somewhat
fluid, covered the delta and Edo States and stretched to Lagos and beyond in
present-day Nigeria. Like the Aztecs they certainly produced quite
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 11:53:34AM -0500, Bryan Caplan wrote
Sachs has popularized a strong finding: Distance from the equator
explains a great deal of the variation in income *levels* between
countries. The further from the equator, the richer countries are.
There are also some parallel
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On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, M.A. Johnson wrote:
Yann forwards:
At a time when the top 1% of U.S. citizens owns more wealth than
the bottom 95% the new U.S. President wants to further cut the taxes
of that wealthiest 1% while vast numbers of the bottom 95% live
I would not like to use dirty words but this line of thought could take
you directly to some kind of racism. That's why your question is just
stupid. But you probably know it.
On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Bryan Caplan wrote:
Sachs has popularized a strong finding: Distance from the equator
Caro(a) Girard,
i agree with Girard and if the stupid question is what really
meant , groelandia is the richest place in the world.
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Yann wrote:
With this inclusion of corporations, you see that government is an
appendix of the rich to make sure they stay rich and become richer.
Therefore, if we don't like the segregation of class created by government,
we should abolish government. While I believe you are wrong about how
Interesting response, wouldst appear to be an instance of threatening
personal destruction for a "thoughtcrime." To even think about race
analytically is apparently evil which must be eradicated, in this writer's
view.
john
At 07:27 PM 2/16/01 +0100, you wrote:
I would not like to use
John Cunningham wrote:
Interesting response, wouldst appear to be an instance of threatening
personal destruction for a "thoughtcrime." To even think about race
analytically is apparently evil which must be eradicated, in this writer's
view.
john
Thinking and writing analytically
Sachs has popularized a strong finding: Distance from the equator
explains a great deal of the variation in income *levels* between
countries. The further from the equator, the richer countries are.
So how do you explain the ancient Mayan, Azctec, Inca, Egyptian,
Zimbabwe, and East Indian
On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Bryan D Caplan wrote:
Circle the globe. The only civilization I can see that ever emerged
around the equator was the Inca. And their effective climate was not
equatorial due to high elevation, as far as I understand.
Most of the equator crosses water, but if you expand
Girard wrote:
I would not like to use dirty words but this line of thought could take
you directly to some kind of racism. That's why your question is just
stupid. But you probably know it.
Normally I remove people from the list when they start making these
sorts of replies, but as the
Fred Foldvary wrote:
On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Bryan D Caplan wrote:
Circle the globe. The only civilization I can see that ever emerged
around the equator was the Inca. And their effective climate was not
equatorial due to high elevation, as far as I understand.
Most of the equator
One of the pieces where Sachs talks about the latitude, wealth, and
growth correlation is:
Geography and Economic Development
Gallup, John Luke ; Sachs, Jeffrey D. ; Mellinger, Andrew D.
National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper: 6849. 1998.
Abstract:
This paper addresses the complex
Alexandre wrote:
Caro(a) Girard,
i agree with Girard and if the stupid question is what really
meant , groelandia is the richest place in the world.
Ditto my previous remarks about list civility.
Substantively, the Sachs correlation between income and latitude is of
course
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