Adam Smith on Workers' Productivity / Adam Smith y la productividad de los trabajadores
Adam Smith on Productivity / Adam Smith y la productividad
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"There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved."
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Nov 302 min read
Adam Smith and the regulation of banks / Adam Smith y la regulación de los bancos
Adam Smith and the regulation of banks / Adam Smith y la regulación de los bancos
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Nov 283 min read
Adam Smith on those who live by profit / Adam Smith sobre los que viven de la ganancia
Adam Smith on those who live by profit / Adam Smith sobre los que viven de la ganancia
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Nov 212 min read
Adam Smith and the welfare of workers / Adam Smith y el bienestar de los trabajadores
Adam Smith and the welfare of workers / Adam Smith y el bienestar de los trabajadores
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jijorquera
Mar 182 min read
The WHO Aims to Eradicate Cervical Cancer by 2030.
Big news in the journal Science (see reference) related to the health and efficacy of vaccines, possibly humanity's greatest invention.
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Mar 1420 min read
Plastics: We can't live with them; we can't live without them.
This post will try to dig a little deeper into the role plastic plays in our society, its advantages and disadvantages.
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jijorquera
Feb 299 min read
Food: On the impact on the environment and biodiversity
Sustainability is humanity’s North Star.
—Hannah Ritchie (2024)
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jijorquera
Nov 10, 20233 min read
Progress in Health: First Chikungunya Vaccine
Aedes albopictus—or tiger mosquito—can transmit Chikungunya and Dengue
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jijorquera
Nov 3, 202312 min read
Future (III): Our dreams will finally come home to stay
Out of the unrelenting application of reason, and the acceptance of what we truly are, our dreams will finally come home to stay
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jijorquera
Oct 27, 20236 min read
Future (II) and Sustainable Development Goals
U.N.'s Sustainable Development Goals ask countries, regardless of their wealth, to promote people's prosperity while protecting the planet
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jijorquera
Oct 20, 20237 min read
Future (I): Respond well to changes
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one that responds best to change (Charles Darwin)
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Oct 10, 202317 min read
Extreme Economic Inequality (III) is a Threat to Democracy
This post closes the series on Progress and Inequality initiated with the post on the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
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Sep 29, 202313 min read
Extreme Inequality (II). Was taxing the richest what made America great?
According to Thomas Piketty if we want society to be cohesive, then we must prevent economic inequality from becoming extreme.
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jijorquera
Sep 22, 202311 min read
Progress (VII): Extreme Inequality is a Threat to Democracy
One of the reasons for the poor performance of democracies, even those most advanced and consolidated, is extreme inequality.
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jijorquera
Sep 8, 20238 min read
Progress (VI): Hunger & Poverty
690 million people suffered from hunger in 2019 (8.9% of the world population). This disgrace is expected to reach 840 million in 2030
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Sep 1, 202311 min read
Progress (V): Violence and War
Every 2 or 3 generations, when the memory dries up ... reason eclipses and other men spread evil again.
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Aug 4, 202312 min read
Progress (IV): COVID-19, Public Health Systems and Ponce de Leon
Juan Ponce de León searched for the Fountain of Youth.
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jijorquera
Jul 28, 20238 min read
Progress (III): Health (II)
The development of mRNA vaccines for COVID-19 is an example of cooperation
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jijorquera
Jul 21, 202313 min read
Progress (II): Health (I)
The plague, (or diseases in general) is perhaps the horseman of the Apocalypses that we have managed to dismount with greater success
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jijorquera
Jul 14, 20235 min read
Progress (I): Dismounting the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
And again a new day begins. And when the sun rises, the world will watch in horror run over its fields four horsemen enemies of man.
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