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Vaccine for poverty? How to inoculate a society against poverty?

Recent studies have found reduced error-related negativity (ERN) in religious individuals (Inzlicht, McGregor, Hirsh, & Nash, 2009). Since ERNs are associated with flexible attentional control (Yeung, Botvinick, & Cohen, 2004),some suggest this decrease in the ERN signature in religious individuals may reflect lower cognitive flexibility and increased closed-mindedness (Amodio, Jost, Master, & Yee, 2007; Lynn, Harvey, & Nyborg, 2009).

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Perfect Rojak

Although it was once thought that religious belief has a special status in the human brain, the evidence suggests that religious beliefs emerge in conjunction with other beliefs, such as moral, political and legal beliefs (van Elk, 2015).

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Dumping kleotocracy-orthodoxy, embracing diversity-prosperity

The attitude of inquiry has helped lay the foundation for modern science. Beginning in the early Middle Ages, this attitude was evident in technological innovations among even unlearned artisans and merchants. These obscure people contributed to the development of practical technologies, such as the mechanical clock (circa 1272) and spectacles.

Even as early as the sixth century, Europeans strove to invent labor-saving technology, such as the heavy-wheeled plow and, later, the padded horse collar. According to research by the late Charles Issawi of Princeton University, eleventh-century England had more mills per capita than even the Ottoman lands at the height of the empire’s power. And although it was in use since 1460 in the West, the printing press was not introduced in the Islamic world until 1727. The Arabic world appears to have been even slower in finding uses for academic technological devices. For instance, the telescope appeared in the Middle East soon after its invention in 1608, but it failed to attract excitement or interest until centuries later.

As science in the Arabic world declined and retrogressed, Europe hungrily absorbed and translated classical and scientific works, mainly through cultural centers in Spain. By 1200, Oxford and Paris had curricula that included works of Arabic science. Works by Aristotle, Euclid, Ptolemy, and Galen, along with commentaries by Avicenna and Averroës, were all translated into Latin. Not only were these works taught openly, but they were formally incorporated into the program of study of universities. Meanwhile, in the Islamic world, the dissolution of the Golden Age was well underway......

......many nations fall into authoritarian and kleptocracy

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Economic growth depends on the development and implementation of new ideas

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The productivity of innovative entrepreneurship of a nation is the function of the value of its human capital over time

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Overemphasis and overfunding of worthless education

Taiwan developed faster than Philippine while having lower literacy rates. Rich Switzerland has the lowest rate among the first world countries. On-the-job training counts for more.

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Prevention is better than cure

The great advances of civilization have never come from government. No one of those opened new frontiers in human knowledge and understanding, in literature, in technical possibilities or in the relief of human misery in response to government directives. Their achievements were the products of individual genius, or strongly held minority views, of a social climate permitting variety, pluralism and diversity.