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Daily Archive for March 17th, 2011

Fun Facts to Know and Tell

Posted in Flotsam and Jetsam on Mar 17th, 2011

I just checked out the AFT website and the Sierra Club prominently advertises there.  Take the “We Are One Pledge” here. In an e-mail Randi Weingarten was so kind to send me, she says that the Pledge is, “in support of fairness, justice, democracy and workers’ voice.”  Give them credit, they know how to rally […]

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If People Grew Like Economies Have Over Time

Posted in Standards of Living on Mar 17th, 2011

I am always on the lookout for creative ways to demonstrate to my students just how remarkable the recent record of global economic growth has been, with the attendant improvement in per capita living standards. If you normalize per capita income in pre-biblical times to take a value of 1 (say, in 5000 B.C.) here […]

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