Economic Effects on Society and the Social Environment Banquet

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Economic Effects on Society and the Social
Environment (Banquet)
Northern Health Conference
La Ronge, Saskatchewan
By J. Fraser Mustard Founding President, CIAR
March 8, 2006
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CIAR
The Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
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CIAR Programs
Population Health Human Development Economic
Growth Successful Societies
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The Determinants of Economic Growth (Prosperity)

• Technological Innovation
• Institutional Innovation
• Source of Capital and Risk Taking
• Quality of Management
• Quality of Human Capital

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DETERMINANTS OF THE QUALITY OF HUMAN CAPITAL
EARLY CHILD DEVELOPMENT TO HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
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Quality of Human Capital
Health and well-being Attitude and
behaviour Intellectual capability (literacy,
etc.)
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Economists and the Quality of Human Capital
Tinbergen Fogel Sen Heckman
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Human Population Growth
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Exponential
Knowledge
and
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Technology
Growth
Population (x 109)

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Beginning of
Industrial
Revolution
Printing
1st Agricultural
Press

Revolution
9BC


2AD
0
3BC
1BC
5BC
1AD
Year (x 103)
Robert W. Fogel. Economic Growth, Population
Theory, and Physiology, April 1994
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Historical
Industrial Revolution and the Increase in
Population in the West
Tom McKeown
- 25 public health
- 75 better nutrition
Robert Fogel
- Major factor - better nutrition of children
(including health)
- Early childhood set risks for chronic diseases
of adults
- Better quality of population improved economic
growth
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21st Century
Population growth and migration Exponential
growth in knowledge and technology Local,
national, and international governance Building
pluralistic, tolerant, prosperous, democratic
societies
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The Fourth Awakening (1960) - Fogel
New knowledge and the mystery of life Poor
literacy and ability to understand the written
word Complexity of civilizations and
globalization Belief and ethical
challenges Retreat into fundamental beliefs
(religions)
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Integrated - ECD
Social
Equality
Education
Health
Capital
Economic
Growth
Human Development
Van der Gaag, World Bank
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A. Traded Goods
and Services
C. Consumption
1. Non-Market
Education
Health Care
Social Services
Public Administration
B. Dynamic Services
Transportation
Communication
2. Market
Finance
Business Services
Retail
Personal Services
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Adam Smith
Productive
primary wealth
Labour
creation
Unproductive
secondary
Labour
wealth creation
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Colonial Secretary Joseph Chamberlain, 1904
Granted you are the clearing house of the world,
are you entirely beyond anxiety as to the
permanence of your great position . . . Banking
is not the creator of our prosperity, but is the
creation of it. It is not the cause of our
wealth, and if the industrial energy and
development which has been going on for so many
years in this country were to be hindered or
relaxed, then finance, and all that finance
means, will follow trade to the countries which
are more successful than ourselves.
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I begin with the inadequate attention to the
accelerating rate of technological change, the
implications of this acceleration for the
restructuring of the economy and its transforming
effect on human beings. I then consider the
neglect of the nonmarket sector of the economy,
the implication of that neglect for the
measurement of consumption, and for the analysis
of economic growth.
Robert Fogel. Catching up with the economy. (1999)
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Wilson Consilience The Unity of Knowledge
Integrate knowledge from natural and social
sciences Essential if our societies are to cope
with the rapid growth in new knowledge and
technologies, globalization, environmental
change, changes in values of societies and
population growth.
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Effects of Technological Revolutions
Culture and values
Social organization
Governance
Violence
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Individualism without social accountability
Individualism with social accountability
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A. Traded Goods
and Services
C. Consumption
1. Non-Market
Education
Health Care
Social Services
Public Administration
B. Dynamic Services
Transportation
Communication
2. Market
Finance
Business Services
Retail
Personal Services
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Integrated - ECD
Social
Equality
Education
Health
Capital
Economic
Growth
Human Development
Van der Gaag, World Bank
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