Comments on: How Davos talks about unemployment http://blogs.reuters.com/blog/archives/13639 Just another Blogs.reuters.com weblog Fri, 29 Mar 2013 07:14:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Willvp http://blogs.reuters.com/blog/archives/13639/comment-page-1#comment-389216 Willvp Fri, 25 Jan 2013 16:22:24 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/?p=13639#comment-389216 That parade of "leaders", film stars, singers, politicans of all sorts is a disgrace for humanity. Most of them make +€25000 per month while ruining the economies of their countries and impoverishing their population, in the mean time making sure to preserve remuneration. Is their one publication/reporter with the courage to tell them there in Davos? That parade of “leaders”, film stars, singers, politicans of all sorts is a disgrace for humanity.

Most of them make +€25000 per month while ruining the economies of their countries and impoverishing their population, in the mean time making sure to preserve remuneration.

Is their one publication/reporter with the courage to tell them there in Davos?

]]> By: Pete_Murphy http://blogs.reuters.com/blog/archives/13639/comment-page-1#comment-389215 Pete_Murphy Fri, 25 Jan 2013 11:59:15 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/?p=13639#comment-389215 The root of the global unemployment crisis eludes economists because of their self-imposed ban on the topic of population growth. If ever the field of economics gets over its Malthusian black eye and looks beyond the mere strain on resources to consider the full gamut of economic implications of population growth, it may discover the inverse relationship between population density and per capita consumption and its role in driving unemployment, poverty and global trade imbalances. But no self-respecting economist would dare utter a peep about population growth around the punch bowl at Davos. Better to masquerade as a science than to act like one. The root of the global unemployment crisis eludes economists because of their self-imposed ban on the topic of population growth. If ever the field of economics gets over its Malthusian black eye and looks beyond the mere strain on resources to consider the full gamut of economic implications of population growth, it may discover the inverse relationship between population density and per capita consumption and its role in driving unemployment, poverty and global trade imbalances. But no self-respecting economist would dare utter a peep about population growth around the punch bowl at Davos. Better to masquerade as a science than to act like one.

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