Videographic: Which country has the biggest economy?

IN THIS week’s print edition we published a chart that looks at the world’s biggest economies over time. We timed it to coincide with the news that China, at least in purchasing-power parity terms, is now the world's biggest economy. People tend to find this historical stuff rather interesting, so below we have produced a similar chart that shows GDP per capita over the same time frame.
The results are quite different. Europe is much more dominant than it was in the original chart. The Netherlands, which does not feature at all in the original graph, does particularly well. Britain, which during the 1700s and 1800s developed a capital-intensive, trade-boosting navy, was a leader during these two centuries. By the 1950s, tiny but oil-rich states did nicely.



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Feliz Natal - Merry Christmas - 2014

A Melhor mensagem de Natal é aquela que sai em silêncio de nossos corações e aquece com ternura os corações daqueles que nos acompanham em nossa caminhada pela vida. Desejo a todos um Feliz Natal.

Sony made a mistake

Obama: Sony 'made a mistake' http://www.cnn.com//2014/12/19/politics/fbi-north-korea-responsible-sony/index.html

O Filme que possivelmente causou o ataque informático que a Sony sofreu na semana passada, "The Interview".

Foi este o filme que tramou a Sony, uma comédia satírica sobre o assassinato de um líder Koreano, suspeitam que o ataque informático que a Sony teve a semana passada, que divulgou inúmeras informações sigilosas de atores, realizadores e novos projetos, foi engendrado pelos amigos dos americanos Korea do Norte. Está tudo explicado.

Sinclair ZX Spectrum now a plug-and-play console

Who does not remember the ZX SPECTRUM at the 80's? Endless waiting hours to download games like R-TYPE, Chuckie Egg, Buggy Boy, Dragon Ninja, Commando and others are good memories of the old ZX Spectrum.

Indiegogo is one of the World’s Crowdfunding Engine. Is the largest global funraising site, that helps individual, businesses, and non-profits raise money online.

Indiegogo is crowdfunded a project for the new SINCLAIR ZX SPECTRUM VEGA. It's a plug-an-play console that hooks into your TV and claims to ofer at least 1000 classic ZX SPECTRUM games built in, with space to download more games over time.

See the campaign of the Sinclair Zx Spectrum Vega at Indiegogo.

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