The International diffusion of the Internet
17 May 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, growth miracles, industrial organisation, survivor principle Tags: China, creative destruction, international technology diffusion, technology diffusion
Leading causes of death in Africa
17 May 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics Tags: The Great Escape
Urban planners are confident souls
15 May 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, economics of regulation, environmental economics, growth miracles, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, urban economics Tags: green rent seeking, housing affordability The fatal conceit, land use regulation, offsetting behaviour, RMA, The pretence to knowledge, unintended consequences, urban planning, zoning
The Great Escape – child mortality since 1950
14 May 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics Tags: child mortality, infant mortality, The Great Escape
Child mortality rate down across the globe via @UNICEF
statista.com/chart/3410/glo… http://t.co/SAYPhFMIC0—
Statista (@StatistaCharts) April 17, 2015
The Great Escape = a big increase in life expectancy inequality
13 May 2015 Leave a comment
In 1800 the global average life expectancy was 32.
Global health inequality was low – no country had over 40 years! http://t.co/BRpzvw9XJA—
Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) May 11, 2015
@MaxCRoser Now over the last decades many caught up – and inequality is declining. While average is now much higher. http://t.co/NDmWzivrhs—
Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) May 11, 2015
The fiscal consequences of oil at $50 a barrel
12 May 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, energy economics, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: Oil prices
#Dailychart: Oil at $50 econ.st/14nUWvA http://t.co/eg1PpoipWZ—
The Economist (@ECONdailycharts) January 07, 2015
The crazy mixed up priorities of climate alarmists-in-chief
12 May 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics Tags: climate alarmism, doomsday prophets, The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape, The Great Fact, Twitter left
Leaving the Left Exposed. James Hansen: dld.bz/dBnyq http://t.co/ZQsKSJxlr1—
The Left, Exposed (@leftexposed) April 23, 2015
The Great Escape – Child mortality is falling in Africa
12 May 2015 Leave a comment
Child mortality is decreasing throughout Africa.
From my project: bit.ly/1IfQSjg http://t.co/jqA30V6GWq—
Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) April 26, 2015
The robots are coming, the robots are coming – been there, done that in Japan
12 May 2015 1 Comment
in applied price theory, development economics, economic history, entrepreneurship, growth miracles, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, survivor principle, unemployment Tags: creative destruction, entrepreneurial alertness, innovation, Japan, technological unemployment
When I was a kid, I used to like reading the Encyclopaedia Britannica. I read them from cover to cover.
One of the things I recalled from the Encyclopaedia Britannica was that in 1961 nearly half of the Japanese workforce worked in the agricultural sector.
I notice that anomaly when I was reading the Encyclopaedia Britannica entry on Japan in the 1970s. Japan had undergoing an economic transformation since my Encyclopaedia Britannica’s were written in 1961. It was very much out of date.
Australian manufacturing was being outcompeted in every direction from automobiles to clothing and footwear by the Japanese manufacturing sector back when I was a teenager.
The Japanese economic miracle absorbed the Japanese agricultural labour force without anybody having time to shout "the robots are coming, the robots are coming".
There is a lesson in there somewhere for the current breathless journalism, with far too many academic fellow travellers about "the robots are coming, the robots are coming".
When I was a student at graduate school in Japan, I visited a Japanese factory in 1996 that was completely automated bar one function. Only once did a human hand actually touch the electrical goods they were making. Naturally, at the Q&A session at the end of our visit, I asked when was his job going to be automated.
The killer air pollution that the Greens never mention
12 May 2015 Leave a comment
4.3 million die every year. Indoor air pollution is the least reported problem of the world. bit.ly/1BfMiZg http://t.co/CDhafWSbj8—
Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) May 07, 2015
At the epidemic’s peak, AIDS affected…
11 May 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth disasters, health economics Tags: Africa, AIDS
At the epidemic's peak, AIDS affected half of people aged 15-49 in Middle Africa. Today? <20%. buff.ly/1EVz4Wo http://t.co/koHasDe2EX—
HumanProgress.org (@humanprogress) May 10, 2015
The Ten Pillars of Economic Wisdom
10 May 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of education, economics of information, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, energy economics, entrepreneurship, financial economics, health economics, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, survivor principle Tags: David Anderson, evidence-based policy, offsetting behaviour, pretence to knowledge, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
via The Ten Pillars of Economic Wisdom, David Henderson | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty.
Maybe joining Euroland isn’t that bad after all
08 May 2015 Leave a comment
in business cycles, currency unions, development economics, Euro crisis, global financial crisis (GFC), growth miracles, international economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics Tags: Eastern Europe, Euroland, European Union, Eurosclerosis, transitional economies
#Dailychart: How "New Europe" has fared on its tenth birthday econ.st/1fwOg33 http://t.co/AvkCqHmzAf—
The Economist (@ECONdailycharts) May 01, 2014
When will capitalism abolish poverty?
06 May 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: capitalism and freedom, The Great Escape, The Great Fact
Global poverty is rapidly falling, says @BrookingsInst: buff.ly/1PM4Mdr #progress http://t.co/nGzbnxSHnp—
HumanProgress.org (@humanprogress) April 29, 2015
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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