TODAY'S recommended economics writing: The historical roots of inequality (Vox) The unsung development miracles of our time (Dani Rodrik) A serious error by Robert Hall Scott Sumnerr) The estate tax and the Laffer curve (Economix) Will the Fed scale up QE2? (Tim Duy).
That is something, too, that few who came of age after the development of so-called miracle drugs can be expected to recall.
Why, after 30 years of research and millions of dollars poured into development of this supposed miracle seed, are we still talking about Golden Rice?
If the protagonist, with whom the child is meant to identify, does the work and puts in the effort to struggle with life's obstacles, there will be some intervention -- a fairy godmother, or the miracle of development in some form -- to yield a promising result, a kind of salvation if you will.
I think this is the point though -- development is moving away from miracles plants, miracle solutions and all sorts of silver bullets.
"Traveling south on that road, the people of the North would see not a threat but a miracle of peaceful development -- Asia's third-largest economy, risen from the ruins of war," he said.
Nanhu Eco-city, a miracle of scientific development and urban transformation, unrolls a picture of historic transmutation from industrial civilization toward eco-civilization.
Israel is a miracle of innovation and development.
The opera is a miracle of Beethovenian motivic development, a gossamer score made up of wondrous, quirky bits, pieces and strands of motifs, melodies and dancing riffs.
