Everything’s Amazing and Nobody’s Happy
18 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, development economics, economic history, economics of information, economics of media and culture, growth disasters, growth miracles, liberalism Tags: antimarket bias, Bryan Caplan, capitalism and freedom, life expectancies, living standards, pessimism bias, The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape, The Great Fact
The Great Escape is on-going
18 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, development economics, economic history, environmental economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics Tags: child mortality, global poverty, infant mortality, life expectancies, stream poverty, The Great Escape, The Great Fact
https://twitter.com/humanprogress/status/631179133989617665/photo/1
The total number of undernourished persons is falling despite population growth. buff.ly/1MgKWqd #food #health http://t.co/YfAltqvxVy—
HumanProgress.org (@humanprogress) August 11, 2015
Extreme poverty is declining, but more quickly in some places than others. See the data: buff.ly/1DDz0O5 http://t.co/W1a0WpCxHI—
HumanProgress.org (@humanprogress) August 11, 2015
India and Pakistan became independent today
16 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, growth disasters, Public Choice Tags: age of empires, British empire, India, Pakistan
This day in 1947 | India and Pakistan independent after some 200 years of British rule: timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1… http://t.co/VfbpKayExM—
NYT Archives (@NYTArchives) August 15, 2015
Does fair trade help the poor?
11 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, health and safety, human capital, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, survivor principle Tags: agricultural economics, expressive voting, fair trade, rational irrationality
The raw numbers on The Great Fact
10 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: extreme poverty, global poverty, The Great Fact
1 billion ppl lived in extreme poverty 2 centuries ago – 1 billion ppl live in extreme poverty today. #dataviz http://t.co/xBMzrJB1N1—
Randy Olson (@randal_olson) August 01, 2015
@NZGreens and co. must face an inconvenient truth about global poverty
09 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, growth disasters, growth miracles, politics - New Zealand Tags: expressive voting, extreme poverty, global poverty, rational irrationality, The Great Escape, The Great Fact
The number of children not going to school globally has halved in 10 years
08 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, economics of education, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: educational attainment, schooling, The Great Fact
"55 million children remained out of school in 2012" New blog on #MDG2 – blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/mdg2-… #opendata #WDI2015 http://t.co/6uYQE1RNSG—
World Bank Data (@worldbankdata) May 20, 2015
North and South Korea in the 20th century
03 Aug 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, income redistribution, Marxist economics, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: central planning, North Korea, South Korea
Has Africa Outgrown Development Aid?
03 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, growth disasters, growth miracles, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: Africa, capitalism and democracy, capitalism and freedom, rule of law, The Great Fact
The Great Fact in India
02 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: India, The Great Fact
In #India poverty is falling very, very rapidly – while inequality is rising.
More at: bit.ly/1KLT8Lh http://t.co/xTxlW1i06o—
Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) June 29, 2015
The fates of two islands under constant threat from a neighbouring military colossus
01 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, industrial organisation, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: anticapitalist mentality, antimarket bias, capitalism and freedom, China, Cuba, expressive voting, Hong Kong, Leftover Left, public intellectuals, rational ignorance, rational irrationality, Twitter left
Only the richest countries have safe drinking water
31 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics Tags: safe drinking water, water pollution
The CDC essentially argues that only the richest countries have safe drinking water. vox.com/2014/8/13/5998… http://t.co/7iBfYjj6cC—
Vox Maps (@VoxMaps) May 20, 2015
Deirdre McCloskey on the Samaritan’s dilemma
30 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, income redistribution, industrial organisation, liberalism, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: Age of Innovation, bourgeoisie deal, capitalism and freedom, Deirdre McCloskey, The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape, The Great Fact
The Great Escape in infant mortality is still on-going
30 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics Tags: capitalism and freedom, child mortality, infant mortality, life expectancies, The Great Escape, The Great Fact
New Blog: "MDG4: A dramatic decline in child mortality over the last 20 years" blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/mdg4-… #opendata http://t.co/lSAS8SU5Od—
World Bank Data (@worldbankdata) July 16, 2015
Democracy in Africa
29 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in constitutional political economy, development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, Public Choice Tags: Africa, capitalism and freedom
#Africa is turning democratic.
From my project: bit.ly/1DkpYjW http://t.co/WX0sTQPTv9—
Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) July 26, 2015
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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