In a recent policy analysis by the libertarian think tank Cato Institute, Peter Kaznacheev claimed that the oft-used academic theory of a “resource curse” is erroneous and mistaken. Kaznacheev is the director at the Centre…
Topic: GDP per capita
Do colleges + universities=economic growth?
Academics have been arguing for decades that colleges and universities are engines of economic growth. Now they seem to have scientific proof, or do they? “We estimate fixed effects models at the sub-national level between…