Visualizing Economics » Consumption http://www.visualizingeconomics.com Making the "Invisible Hand" Visible Fri, 05 Mar 2010 06:43:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Consumer Spending vs Wealth 1953-2008 [White House] http://www.visualizingeconomics.com/2009/03/20/consumer-spending-vs-wealth-1953-2008-white-house/ http://www.visualizingeconomics.com/2009/03/20/consumer-spending-vs-wealth-1953-2008-white-house/#comments Fri, 20 Mar 2009 11:00:00 +0000 Catherine http://www.visualizingeconomics.com/2009/03/20/consumer-spending-vs-wealth-1953-2008-white-house/ From Economic Report of the President found via Economix Blog – NYTimes.com. The graph compares the % change in consumer spending (dark line) to % change in household wealth.

]]> http://www.visualizingeconomics.com/2009/03/20/consumer-spending-vs-wealth-1953-2008-white-house/feed/ 0 Adoption of New Technology since 1900 http://www.visualizingeconomics.com/2008/02/18/adoption-of-new-technology-since-1900/ http://www.visualizingeconomics.com/2008/02/18/adoption-of-new-technology-since-1900/#comments Tue, 19 Feb 2008 01:39:26 +0000 Catherine http://www.visualizingeconomics.com/2008/02/18/adoption-of-new-technology-since-1900/ Historical graph showing the adoption of new technologies in the United States (designed by Nicholas Felton that I found via the New York Times). For example look at percentage of households that had telephones over the last 100 years and compared this to the time it took for cellphones to be adopted.

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adoption of new technologies magnifying glass

[tags]consumption, technology, United States[/tags]

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