Divided island: How Haiti and the DR became two worlds
24 Apr 2017 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history Tags: economics of borders
That is a lot of cement
22 Apr 2017 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: China, The Great Escape
More evidence of mass kidnappings of @OxfamNZ @GreenpeaceNZ and other #ODA activists
18 Apr 2017 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, energy economics, growth miracles, resource economics
Mass kidnappings is the only explanation for their failure to dance in the streets celebrating the success of the spread of capitalism to developing countries priming The Great Escape of 1 billion people from extreme poverty inside 20 years.
Source: Data | The World Bank.
Growth paths of #LatAm & the Caribbean the South East Tigers: wrld.bg/NCtLt #RiseoftheSouth http://t.co/IFuUOWldox—
World Bank Pubs (@WBPubs) May 31, 2015
3 Myths about Capitalism
18 Apr 2017 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history Tags: The Great Fact
Marxism Explained in 2 Minutes, with Deirdre McCloskey
17 Apr 2017 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, development economics, economic history, history of economic thought, Marxist economics, Public Choice Tags: Deirdre McCloskey
Shock, horror! Chinese government statistics are unreliable
14 Apr 2017 Leave a comment
in development economics, population economics Tags: China, communist party, economics of fertility, one child policy, Population demographics
My Chinese friends at a Japanese university in 1995 must have been born in the 1970s at the height of the one child policy but always had a younger brother if the first child was female.
The way to tell whether the Chinese student was the daughter of a party member was to ask if they had any brothers or sisters.
The fall of extreme poverty and child mortality, 1976-2015
10 Apr 2017 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth miracles Tags: capitalism and freedom, child poverty, extreme poverty, The Great Escape, The Great Fact
Johan Norberg – Are Rare Earth Minerals Rare?
31 Mar 2017 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, development economics, resource economics Tags: China
ROGGE LECTURE: DEIRDRE MCCLOSKEY (NOVEMBER 15, 2014)
30 Mar 2017 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, development economics, economic history Tags: top 1%
Would @GetUp @SenSanders go back in Time Machine to their 1970s glory days?
27 Mar 2017 1 Comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, development economics, economic history, growth miracles, politics - USA Tags: anti-market bias, Leftover Left, pessimism bias, The Great Enrichment, top 1%
18.1% of all children born on this planet in 1960 died before they had their fifth birthday ourworldindata.org/data/populatio… https://t.co/1FcIzAk88b—
Ninja Economics (@NinjaEconomics) December 28, 2015
A Graph for Pope Francis: If You Want to Help the Poor, You Should Embrace Capitalism. Exhibit A: See Chart http://t.co/yG1ixKZxrJ—
Mark J. Perry (@Mark_J_Perry) September 21, 2015
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