The Not So Dismal Science
Posted at 12:17am on Jan. 18, 2008 Your Good News Post Of The Day
By Pejman Yousefzadeh
Alex Tabarrok on how economic growth will lead to longer and healthier lives:
Forget the talk of recession. The world is about to enter a new era in which miracle drugs will conquer cancer and other killer diseases and technological and scientific advances will trigger unprecedented economic growth and global prosperity.
Pie in the sky optimism? Perhaps. But there are reasons to be optimistic, and they rest not on science fiction but within the badly misnamed "dismal science," economics.
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