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
• Cato Institute
• Climate Resistance
• Competitive Enterprise Institute
• Culture Wars – world development
• The Current Moment
• Future Cities Project
• Novo Argumente (German)
  
• Planet Gore
• Population Research Institute
• Sense About Science
• Spiked
• Worldbytes video news channel
• Worldwrite

Personal websites

• Angus Maddison
• Ben Goldacre: Bad Science
• Bjorn Lomborg (also see Copenhagen Consensus Center below)
• Brendan O’Neill
• Frank Furedi
• Ha-Joon Chang (recent papers)
• Helene Guldberg
  
• Indur Goklany (also see EJSD Journal below)
  
• James Heartfield
• James Woudhuysen: Thinking About The Future
• Joel Kotkin
  
• Kenan Malik and his Pandaemonium blog
  
• L Graham Smith: Ecomyths
• Matt Ridley: Rational Optimist
• Michael Specter
  
• Philippe Legrain
  
• Norman Lewis: Futures Diagnosis
• Raymond Tallis
  
• Robert Killick: UK After The Recession
• Robert Paarlberg (articles on food policy)
  
• Roger Pielke Jr
• Sam Koritz: Progess Daily
• Sean Collins: The American Situation
• Steve J Milloy: Junk Science
• Vanessa Pupavac (publications list)
• Will Wilkinson: flybottle

Background information and statistics

• Aidwatch (William Easterly)
• BREAD Bureau
• Center for Global Development
  
• Center for the Study of Inequality
• China Digital Times
• Climate Debate Daily
• Commission on Growth and Development
• Copenhagen Consensus Center
  
• developmentdata.org
• Development Drums (podcasts)
  
• Economic growth resources
• The Economist
• Eldis
• EJSD journal (Electronic Journal of Sustainable Development)
• From Poverty to Power (Duncan Green – Oxfam)
• Gapminder
• Guide to development websites
• Inequality.com (Stanford)
• International Monetary Fund
• IPN
• Library of Economics
• MDG Monitor
• Millennium Development Goals
• Numberwatch
• OECD Factbook 2010
• Penn World Table
• Political Climate (Matthew Lockwood and Andrew Pendleton)
  
• 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.