Cowen1e_CH07.pp4.qxd 4/27/09 12:32 PM Page 115 7 Growth‚ Capital Accumulation‚ and the Economics of Ideas: Catching Up vs. the Cutting Edge CHAPTER OUTLINE The Solow Model and Catch-Up Growth The Solow Model—Details and Further Lessons (Optional Section) T he Chinese economy has been growing at an astonishing The Future of Economic Growth rate. In 2006‚ GDP per capita in China grew by 10 percent. In the same year‚ GDP per capita in the United States grew Takeaway by just 2.3 percent
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Backed Up Against the Environmental Wall‚ Clean Coal Makes a Comeback With the walls of alternative fuels closing in on the once versatile energy source‚ coal has witnessed a gradual decline in demand over the past few years and is slated to no longer being seen as the primary source of sustainable energy. Rising costs of coal extraction and stricter emission regulations by government bodies like the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have threatened to end to coal’s reign as the energy source
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TOPIC: WHERE SHOULD WE BEGIN TO CLEAN UP OUR WORLD? Have you ever wished that the world wasn’t so messed up‚ that world could be a place of peace; where life has meaning; a place where people actually care about each other and the world in which they live? According to the bible from the Christian religion this WAS once was the case. God originally created our world as a place of perfect peace. People were in a love relationship with God‚ with one another and their environment. But Christianity
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q-tips‚ also referred to as cotton swabs‚ because they can damage your ears. Surprisingly enough‚ even the manufacturers of these cotton swabs give several warnings not to insert the q-tips on your ear canals. 5 reasons why you should not use q-tips to clean your ears? There are different yet important reasons why you should refrain from using q-tips in your ears. Here are the best reasons that we can give you when it comes to discouraging the use of cotton swabs in ear cleaning. 1. Earwax is important
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‘The shortage in the supply of clean water is a looming crisis in some regions of the world.’ Discuss the causes and consequences. 1. Introduction Water shortage has been a worrisome problem facing the world. We mostly live in water-rich countries washing dishes‚ watering plants and taking a shower‚ it’s hard to imagine or realize there will be inadequate water supply for the world one day. Water is a finite resource such that the amount of fresh water supply provided by the hydrological cycle
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T.S. Eliot’s poem "The Winter Evening Settles Down" and Ernest Hemingway’s short story "A Clean‚ Well-Lighted Place‚" both share the same theme of the alienation of the individual from society. It is the moods of desolation and despair‚ loneliness and struggle that reflect both authors’ observations of the individual alienated from society. In his poem‚ Eliot reveals the first clue to the mood of the poem in his first line. The winter evening settles down The word winter might symbolize roughness
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“A Clean‚ Well-Lighted Place” Theme Analysis "I wouldn’t want to be that old. An old man is a nasty thing." "Not always. This old man is clean. He drinks without spilling. Even now‚ drunk. Look at him." -Ernest Hemmingway The story written by Ernest Hemmingway tells of a deaf old man who is in conversation with others at a café in the late night hours. The others in the story’s setting share a significant difference of age and opinion. It seems they depict their ages as stages of life
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Singapore: A Clean and Green City From “Garden City” to a “City in a Garden” Introduction Singapore is a city-state with a land area of about 710 km2i. It is one of the most densely populated countries in the world and yet‚ harbours rich natue biodiversity. Singapore is well recognized as the world’s greenest city. According to the 2011 Asian Green City Indexii‚ Singapore is Asia’s greenest metropolis‚ and the only city assessed to perform well above average in the overall rankings. The Singaporean
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INTRODUCTION After analyzing past customer preferences‚ in 2010 store 88 initiated a promotion to increase mid-week sales to even out demand. In the past approximately 80% of services were incurred on Friday‚ Saturday and Monday‚ compared to 20% incurred on Tuesday‚ Wednesday and Thursday. To even out the demand for services‚ the store initiated a program to decrease the service price to $18 on Tuesdays‚ Wednesdays‚ and Thursdays and increase the price to $30 on Fridays‚ Saturdays‚ and Mondays
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life is beautiful‚ but as we grow older and time slowly and quickly passes we discover that not everything about life is quite so pleasing. Along with the joys and happiness we experience there is also pain‚ sadness and loneliness. Hemingway’s "A Clean‚ Well-Lighted Place‚" and Eliot’s "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" both tell us about older men who are experiencing these dreadful emotions. <br> <br>In Hemingway’s short story there are three characters‚ two waiters and their customer. Of these
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