Could Civilization Survive a World Without Growth? The answer, simply, is no — NY Times — https://t.co/GiDZkBVyMt pic.twitter.com/XBAVlF3fUl
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in applied welfare economics, development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape, The Great Fact
Creative destruction in African dictators
04 Dec 2015 Leave a comment
in constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: Africa, capitalism and freedom
If poverty could be solved by experts, we’d have solved it in 30s @HelenClarkUNDP
03 Dec 2015 Leave a comment
in constitutional political economy, development economics, economics of bureaucracy, growth disasters, growth miracles
Share of world poverty has halved in last 20 years
29 Nov 2015 1 Comment
in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: capitalism and freedom, expressive voting, extreme poverty The Great Fact, global poverty, rational ignorance, rational rationality, voter demographics
https://twitter.com/MaxCRoser/status/630066216158261248/photo/1
Since 1820 the world's population increased 7x while extreme poverty fell from 94% to 14%. buff.ly/1hgHIrb http://t.co/0dx4GE4Uqc—
Jeremiah Dillon (@jeremiahdillon) August 07, 2015
How the World Income distribution changed during the last 50 years @jeremycorbyn
23 Nov 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: The Great Escape, The Great Fact, Twitter left
What Do the Newly Released Poverty Figures Show?
20 Nov 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: extreme poverty, The Great Escape, World Bank
The western environmental movement’s role in China’s one-child policy
19 Nov 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics, labour economics, labour supply, population economics Tags: China, cranks, doomsday profits, doomsday prophecies, one child policy
Deirdre McCloskey on Piketty, the Bourgeoisie Deal, the Bolshevik Deal, and the Bridal Deal
17 Nov 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, growth disasters, growth miracles, Public Choice Tags: bourgeoisie deal, capitalism and freedom, Deirdre McCloskey, industrial revolution, The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape, The Great Fact, Thomas Piketty

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@HelenClarkUNDP @OxfamGB @GreenpeaceUSA support energy poverty in Africa
14 Nov 2015 1 Comment
in development economics, energy economics, environmental economics, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: Africa, child poverty, energy poverty, extreme hunger, extreme poverty, global hunger, Greenpeace, Oxfam, The Great Escape
Breathing Beijing’s air
10 Nov 2015 Leave a comment
Breathing Beijing’s air: the equivalent of smoking nearly 40 cigarettes a day. http://t.co/7M3TxrgUPD—
ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) October 13, 2015
The Great Fact in 2 charts
10 Nov 2015 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: China, India, The Great Escape, The Great Fact
Robert Lucas on income redistribution and economic growth
05 Nov 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, macroeconomics, Robert E. Lucas Tags: capitalism and freedom, industrial revolution, The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape, The Great Fact
Chinese birth and death rates and the Chinese population since 1950
04 Nov 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, labour economics, labour supply, population economics Tags: China, economics of fertility, one child policy, The fatal conceit, The pretense to knowledge, unintended consequences

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