Economic Growth is focussed upon as THE measure of national wellbeing when it is merely a measure of the value of all the goods and services produced in a country that overlooks: – What those goods are – Who bought them – How useful they are – How they were produced and at what cost – or The environmental expense of producing them. Wouldn’t it be better to judge national well being by whether fewer people than last year were homeless, hungry, unhappy, ill, unfullfilled or under stress? An ideal system would subtract all the costs of expansion from the benefits in order to find out what and where progress had been made. This would reveal that a great deal of our “growth” has a higher cost than benefit. See the follow up to this video entitled Distribution of Wealth here: uk.youtube.com
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China?s Economic Growth and the Property Revolution

After joining the world trade Organization in 2001, China’s economics growth is always brilliant. March of 2007 is to be remembered as the great property revolution turning point for China. China’s Authorities declared legal to protect individual property, which is a great step ahead for China’s economic growth which was based for decades on collective or public property.

Even though rural areas are under the old property legal system, the fact that the National Popular Assembly voted almost unanimously the Law of private property revolution, indicates that China is becoming more integrated into capitalism and into the Global Economy. Prime Minister Wen Jiabao regarded the property revolution as the “great jump” as a way to change from the days of instability and lack of productivity, into a new order where quality products and high levels of productivity are mandatory. The financial situation of state owned companies and the sagging contribution to employment has become a great concern for China’s central government.

Since 1978 for China’s economic growth, the government of the People’s Republic of China is reforming its economy from a Soviet style centrally planned economy, to a market oriented economy within the political framework of the Communist Party of China. China’s economic growth is helping to bring down the poverty levels, from 53% in 1981, to less than 8% nowadays. However, Chinese prosperity is still concentrated in the coastal and southern provinces, while efforts are being made to expand the prosperity to the inner provinces and the industrial northeast. Foreign trade and investment are helping increasing levels of income, consumption and productivity. The government is focusing on foreign trade as a way to promote China’s economic growth. China’s economic growth is so strong, that it is the first in the consumption of aluminum, steel, copper and coal and the second biggest consumer of oil in the world. With a cheap labor force of more than 800 millions workers, China’s economic growth potential is huge. Compared with developed countries, China lags behind in areas of science, technology, management, ecological environment protection, educational quality and organizational levels. Joining the world Trade Organization is paying off for China’s economic growth, as foreign direct investment is surging.

With China’s economy growth rates over 10%, and exports growth at a steady pace, the future is promising for the new member of the Capitalistic Club. Even though there are many countries feeling threatened by China, we have to admit that there is a new great door to

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Economic Growth (2nd Edition)

Why are some countries rich and others poor? David N. Weil, one of the top researchers in economic growth, introduces students to the latest theoretical tools, data, and insights underlying this pivotal question. By showing how empirical data relate to new and old theoretical ideas, Economic Growth , 2/e provides readers with a complete introduction to the discipline and the latest research. Overview: The Facts to Be Explained; A Framework for Analysis. Factor Accumulation: Physical Capita

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Complete video at: fora.tv Author and environmentalist Bill McKibben criticizes sustained economic growth, a policy goal, he argues, whose costs outweigh its benefits. —– Bill McKibben discusses his groundbreaking new book “Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future.” McKibben focuses on the point where environmental and economic issues intersect, offering revolutionary ideas for approaching these problems. This is one of the most important books to be published on issues relating to global warming. McKibben is the author of “Hundred Dollar Holiday,” “Maybe One,” and “Hope, Human and Wild” – Book Passage
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Two Secrets to Creating Abundance Now!

The first secret to creating abundance is learning what abundance isn’t. Abundance is not happiness. Abundance is not determined by our bank account, the square footage of our home, or the make of our car. If it were, then we would see wealthier people behave as though they are happier and the middle class demonstrating signs of misery. Yet hundreds of experiments show unequivocally that, once basic needs for comfort have been met at a modest, middle class level, the correlation between wealth and happiness disappears. Poof! Chasing after money in the hope that it will buy us more happiness, intimacy, or fulfillment is a waste of energy based on an invalid hypothesis.

Many of us think we already get this. We say our “amens,” grateful to God/the Universe for our daily bread. But secretly, we believe that what we have, as well as fundamentally who we are, is not enough. We find ourselves grasping for more, feeling like dogs chasing our tails. Why can’t we stop?

The saying, “Seeing is believing,” reinforces that we must see something—notice something—before we will believe it. But how can we notice something we don’t have our attention on? Let me simplify the quandary with an example that we’ve probably all experienced. You buy a new car (or at least new to you) and suddenly you notice that same car everywhere on the freeway. Did everyone suddenly buy the identical car that day? Of course not. It’s just that your attention is now focused on something that previously you hadn’t noticed. Seeing your same car everywhere reinforces that there are more of them out there even if you “know” that can’t be true.

So when we are bombarded, through the media, with visions of excited, sexy, happy new owners of cars, yachts, homes, and clothes, we believe that there must be a correlation between having and happiness, especially if we’re not feeling excited, happy, and satisfied in that particular moment. We look at these successful happy people and compare them to us. The conclusion: Something is wrong with me. We now experience “lack consciousness,” which fuels the urge to have/get more so that we will feel enough.

So the second secret of abundance is to recognize that the saying, “Seeing is believing,” is backwards. When we focus on something, when we choose to believe it, we begin to see it more and more everywhere, just like in our new car scenario. Therefore, if we choose to believe we are abundant, we will begin to notice how abundant we are. So do you need to see it first to believe it? No! “Believing is seeing!”

Obviously, then, the first step to experiencing abundance is to check what your current beliefs are that stop you from seeing that abundance already surrounds you. Do you doubt that you deserve abundance? Do you define abundance in such a way that you can never “get” it? Do you think of

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