
Risk of dying young down from 14% in 1970 to 5% in 2010. Chances of dying before 50 were 28% in 1970, but half that now
02 Jun 2018 Leave a comment
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Source: Richard Peto, Alan D. Lopez, Ole F. Norheim via https://www.businessinsider.com.au/whats-the-best-time-in-history-to-be-born-2014-9#F01rlibqsBS8JZAP.99
Evolution of Metros in China & Taiwan: 1990 – 2020
31 May 2018 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth miracles, transport economics, urban economics Tags: China, Taiwan
Google Earth time-lapse showing growth in Shanghai from 1984 to 2016.
31 May 2018 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth miracles Tags: China
Before And After Pictures Of Famous Cities
25 May 2018 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth miracles, urban economics
#Marx200
06 May 2018 1 Comment
in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, Marxist economics
Hans Rosling’s shortest TED talk
06 May 2018 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: The Great Escape
J’accuse @greenpeace @oxfam @greens @nzgreens
04 May 2018 Leave a comment
in development economics, economics of regulation, environmental economics, growth miracles, health economics Tags: anti-GMO movement, Anti-Science left

From Are you anti-GMO? Then you’re anti-science, too.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
See how the rest of the world lives, organized by income | Anna Rosling Rönnlund
02 May 2018 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: The Great Escape
Bill Gates on Factfulness
01 May 2018 Leave a comment
in defence economics, development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: The Great Escape
The Great Escape in South Korea
27 Apr 2018 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth miracles, health economics Tags: child mortality, infant mortality, The Great Escape
Paul Ehrlich really has lost touch with reality
24 Apr 2018 Leave a comment
in development economics, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, growth miracles, health economics, population economics Tags: cranks, pessimism bias, population bomb



So Liberia and Abyssina must be most prosperous because they escaped colonialism
13 Apr 2018 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: Africa, age of empires, economics of colonialism
Easterly: Sachs & Individual Rights
01 Apr 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, development economics, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: overseas aid, The fatal conceit
Is there a Natural Resource Curse?
24 Mar 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, international economics, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, resource economics Tags: resource curse


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