A5089067609- Income, Poverty, and Inequality
- Historical Economic and Social Studies
- RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
- Congenital heart defects research
- Economic Growth and Productivity
- Global trade and economics
- RNA Research and Splicing
- Neural dynamics and brain function
- Neuroscience and Neural Engineering
- Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
- Global Health Care Issues
- Climate Change Policy and Economics
- EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance
- Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy
Macquarie University
2022-2024
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
2024
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
2023-2024
The University of Sydney
2021
This paper quantifies drain from the global South through unequal exchange since 1960. According to our primary method, which relies on exchange-rate differentials, we find that in most recent year of data North ('advanced economies') appropriated commodities worth $2.2 trillion Northern prices — enough end extreme poverty 15 times over. Over whole period, totalled $62 (constant 2011 dollars), or $152 when accounting for lost growth. Appropriation represents up 7% GDP and 9% Southern GDP. We...
This paper assesses claims that, prior to the 19th century, around 90% of human population lived in extreme poverty (defined as inability access essential goods), and that global welfare only began improve with rise capitalism. These rely on national accounts PPP exchange rates do not adequately capture changes people's goods. We assess this narrative against extant data three empirical indicators welfare: real wages (with respect a subsistence basket), height, mortality. ask whether these...
Some narratives in international development hold that ending poverty and achieving good lives for all will require every country to reach the levels of GDP per capita currently characterise high-income countries. However, this would increasing total global output resource use several times over, dramatically exacerbating ecological breakdown. Furthermore, universal convergence along these lines is unlikely within imperialist structure existing world economy. Here we demonstrate dilemma can...
It is widely believed that China's socialist economy had relatively high rates of extreme poverty while the capitalist reforms 1980s and 1990s delivered rapid progress. This narrative relies on World Bank estimates share people living less than $1.90 a day (2011 PPP), which show sharp decline from 88 per cent in 1981 to zero by 2018. However, Bank's line has been critiqued for ignoring variations actual cost meeting basic needs. In this paper we review data published OECD unable afford...
The popular narrative that capitalism has led to a general improvement in human well-being over the last two hundred years is, historical data show, not supported by evidence. Jason Hickel and Dylan Sullivan enumerate empirical methodological problems on which this is built explore potential benchmarks for truly understanding welfare.
The 1.6-megabase deletion at chromosome 3q29 (3q29Del) is the strongest identified genetic risk factor for schizophrenia, but effects of this variant on neurodevelopment are not well understood. We interrogated developing neural transcriptome in two experimental model systems with complementary advantages: isogenic human cortical organoids and isocortex from 3q29Del mouse model. profiled transcriptomes that were aged 2 12 months, as perinatal isocortex, all single-cell resolution. Systematic...
Recent advances in the genetics of schizophrenia (SCZ) have identified rare variants that confer high disease risk, including a 1.6 Mb deletion at chromosome 3q29 with staggeringly large effect size (O.R. > 40). Understanding impact (3q29Del) on developing CNS may therefore lead to insights about pathobiology schizophrenia. To gain clues molecular and cellular perturbations caused by deletion, we interrogated transcriptomic effects two experimental model systems complementary advantages:...