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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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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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
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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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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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
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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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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Jun 16, 202312 min read
Biodiversity loss (V). We are devouring the planet.
Biodiversity loss (V). We are devouring the planet...
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Feb 17, 202312 min read
Climate Emergency: Why? - Emergencia climática: ¿Por qué?
Seventy thousand years ago Homo sapiens was still an insignificant animal minding its own business in a corner of Africa. In the...
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jijorquera
Feb 3, 20235 min read
Evolution carries on (II) Adaptation, ingenuity & population growth - La evolución continúa (II)
Adaptación, ingenio y crecimiento poblacional Not all human adaptations to the environment stem from its radical modification by our...
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Jan 27, 20238 min read
Evolution carries on / La evolución continúa
Our ancestors developed the ability to transform the environment in their favor hundreds of thousands of years ago. This characteristic...
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Jan 24, 20237 min read
Religion (VI) Enlightenment and Science / Religión (VI) Ilustración y ciencia
Contrary to the religiously ordained bonfires that threatened and burned so many people because they tried to draw knowledge from nature...
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Jan 20, 20236 min read
Religion (V) and Economy / Religión (V) y economía
One of the less considered aspects of religion is its influence on the economy. Religions created important networks of solidarity and...
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Jan 13, 20238 min read
Religion (III): Essential Functions - I / Religión (III): Funciones esenciales - I
In previous posts on religion we have reviewed the evolutionary justification of religion as well as the “religious Darwinism” or...
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Jan 10, 20235 min read
Religion (II) and Darwinism / Religión (II) y darwinismo
Geographer and historian Jared Diamond defines religion as a set of characteristics that distinguish a human social group that shares...
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