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Median income is the single best measure of how much we are producing new ideas that benefit most of the American population.
Tyler Cowen • The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All The Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better: A Penguin eSpecial from Dutton
and certainly does not pass a benefit-cost (B/C) test.
Bjørn Lomborg • Smart Solutions to Climate Change: Comparing Costs and Benefits
Job Creation and Loss by Firm Age (average per year, by year-group, 1992–2005)
Jonathan Tepper • Endgame: The End of the Debt SuperCycle and How It Changes Everything
Only the costs of a higher education, one can argue, have kept pace with the times.
Clayton M. Christensen • The Innovative University: Changing the DNA of Higher Education from the Inside Out
FIGURE 10-7: THE PARETO
Nate Silver • The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't
Fertilizer and energy subsidies are another policy with middling returns.
Bjorn Lomborg • Best Things First
The economic gains are also something to marvel at. Achieving $1.1 trillion in economic benefits split across the population of the poorer half of the world
Bjorn Lomborg • Best Things First
R&D investments that appear to be cost-beneficial may not be if a high proportion of their inputs are drawn from other high-payoff R&D.
Bjørn Lomborg • Smart Solutions to Climate Change: Comparing Costs and Benefits
we do not attempt to perform a probabilistic BCA, though one is clearly needed.