{"id":36146,"date":"2016-10-19T02:00:23","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T06:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=36146"},"modified":"2016-10-17T11:08:15","modified_gmt":"2016-10-17T15:08:15","slug":"economics-made-the-world-great-and-can-make-it-even-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2016\/10\/19\/economics-made-the-world-great-and-can-make-it-even-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Economics Made the World Great \u2013 and Can Make It Even Better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RYxMVNqIYTw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Published on Sep 23, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A lot of doom and gloom types say we\u2019re living in dark times. But they\u2019re wrong.<\/p>\n<p>While there are real problems, the world has never been healthier, wealthier, and happier than it is today. Over a billion people have been lifted from dire poverty in just the past few decades. <\/p>\n<p>What has contributed to this improvement of our well-being? The answer can be found in the evolution of economic and policy ideas. <\/p>\n<p>But we can still do better. How will we solve today\u2019s challenges and what breakthroughs will spark change tomorrow? <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published on Sep 23, 2016 A lot of doom and gloom types say we\u2019re living in dark times. But they\u2019re wrong. While there are real problems, the world has never been healthier, wealthier, and happier than it is today. Over a billion people have been lifted from dire poverty in just the past few decades. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,7],"tags":[320,91,315],"class_list":["post-36146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-history","tag-freetrade","tag-poverty","tag-wealth"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9p0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36147,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36146\/revisions\/36147"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}