Links
This is a list of links which should be useful to anyone who wants to stand up to the growth sceptics – I do not necessarily agree with everything they argue. It includes links to sites that are generally pro-growth as well as some providing useful statistics and background reports. Anyone who wants to suggest additional links for me to add please email me at: ferraris@danielbenami.com
Key websites
- Audacity
- Big Potatoes: The London Manifesto for Innovation
- Climate Resistance
- Freiblick-Institut (German)
- Future Cities Project
- Novo Argumente (German)
- Spiked
- Worldbytes video news channel
- Worldwrite
- Zeitgeisterjagd (German)
Personal websites
- Angus Maddison
- Ben Goldacre: Bad Science
- Bjorn Lomborg (also see Copenhagen Consensus Center below)
- Branko Milanovic
- Brendan O’Neill
- Frank Furedi
- Ha-Joon Chang
- Helene Guldberg
- Indur Goklany
- James Heartfield
- James Woudhuysen: Thinking About The Future
- Joel Kotkin
- Kenan Malik and his Pandaemonium blog
- L Graham Smith: Ecomyths
- Marco Visscher (English and Dutch)
- Matt Ridley: Rational Optimist
- Philippe Legrain
- Raymond Tallis
- Robert Killick: UK After The Recession
- Robert Paarlberg (articles on food policy)
- Roger Pielke Jr
- Sean Collins: The American Situation
- Steve J Milloy: Junk Science
- Vanessa Pupavac(publications list)
Background information and statistics
- Breakthrough Institute
- Cato Institute
- Center for Global Development
- Center for the Study of Inequality
- China Digital Times
- Climate Debate Daily
- Competitive Enterprise Institute
- Copenhagen Consensus Center
- The Current Moment
- developmentdata.org
- Development Drums (podcasts)
- Ecomodernist Manifesto
- The Economist
- Econtalk (podcasts)
- Eldis
- From Poverty to Power (Duncan Green – Oxfam)
- Gapminder
- Inequality.com (Stanford)
- Institute of Economic Affairs
- International Monetary Fund
- Library of Economics
- MDG Monitor
- Millennium Development Goals
- Penn World Table
- Population Research Institute
- Real Clear Markets
- Reason
- Sloman Economics – hotlinks (lots of valuable links)
- Unctad
- United Nations Development Programme
- University of Texas Inequality Project (James Galbraith)
- World Bank
- World Development Indicators
- World Trade Organization
- Yale Economic Growth Center
The House of Commons library has produced a useful set of guides to statistics.