Increases in global life expectancy by region and cause
11 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics Tags: life expectancy, The Great Escape
Solar power versus economic development
11 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: renewable energy, solar power
Once were British
11 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice Tags: age of empires, British empire, British imperialism, colonialism
Territories that were once part of the British Empire http://t.co/4EyAtGRZyJ—
Amazing Maps (@Amazing_Maps) March 15, 2015
Who will be the 20 largest economies in 2030?
10 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic growth, growth miracles, macroeconomics Tags: China, convergence, India, Japan
These will be the world’s 20 largest economies in 2030 bloom.bg/1IzgMhl http://t.co/KADxgakbEj—
Bloomberg VisualData (@BBGVisualData) May 20, 2015
The Great Escape: winning the war on disease
10 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics Tags: capitalism and freedom, extreme poverty, global poverty, life expectancy, The Great Escape, The Great Fact
The price, output and acreage effects of a GMO ban
08 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, economics of regulation, environmental economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, population economics, technological progress Tags: agricultural economics, expressive voting, extreme poverty, global hunger, global poverty, GMOs, Left-wing hypocrisy, rational ignorance, rational irrationality, The Great Fact
Organic farming is a gift….
facebook.com/welovegv http://t.co/iu8Jq0KcHD—
C. S. Prakash (@AgBioWorld) June 05, 2015
Projected increases in corn and soy prices in a world without GMOs
ageconsearch.umn.edu/bitstream/2049… http://t.co/PNydjpl59K—
C. S. Prakash (@AgBioWorld) June 08, 2015
If you outlaw GMOs, be prepared to bring millions of acres of forest land, cropland & pasture under farming http://t.co/H9ftkxhXYe—
C. S. Prakash (@AgBioWorld) June 08, 2015
If GMOs are banned today in the US, what would be the crop yield reduction? http://t.co/pEn73PODcR—
C. S. Prakash (@AgBioWorld) June 08, 2015
The rapid rise of the middle-class in developing countries
08 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth miracles Tags: China, India, The Great Enrichment, The Great Fact
Climate change saving hundreds of thousands of lives in Africa
08 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, environmental economics, global warming, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: Africa, agricultural economics, climate alarmism, drought, extreme poverty, famine, global poverty, global warming
Climate change saving hundreds of thousands of lives in Africa
thetimes.co.uk/tto/environmen…
@BarackObama hates that. http://t.co/cneiSS60wT—
Steve Goddard (@SteveSGoddard) June 02, 2015
The withering away the proletariat from the rise of the middle-class in underdeveloped countries
05 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: capitalism and freedom, The Age of Milton Friedman, The Great Fact
#Dailychart: Workers in poor countries are climbing out of poverty econ.st/1tJXtb4 http://t.co/Z8saGkMa4e—
The Economist (@ECONdailycharts) May 27, 2014
Deranged conspiracy theories versus the domestic political reality of the Indonesian resumption of executions
05 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, economics of crime, law and economics, politics - Australia Tags: Australia, capital punishment, conspiracy theories, crime and punishment, expressive voting, Indonesia, left-wing condescension, Left-wing hypocrisy, Leftover Left, rational ignorance, rational irrationality
The Australian human rights commissioner has put forward a bizarre conspiracy theory linking the recent execution of two drug traffickers in Indonesia to the Australian policy of turning back refugee boats.
Ignorance and condescension of Indonesian domestic politics is prevalent among the left wing elite in Australia.
Indonesia started executions again under the new president after a long hiatus and in particular for death sentences for narcotics drug trafficking. Indonesia had an unofficial moratorium on the death penalty between 2008 and 2012 but resumed executions in 2013. Executions were infrequent.
The new president was recently elected on a platform of being tough on crime and in particular on drug trafficking and the 64 drug traffickers currently on death row:
[The clemency requests] are not on my table yet. But I guarantee that there will be no clemency for convicts who committed narcotics-related crimes
Secondly, making concessions to Australia does not win votes in Indonesia which is a democracy. Thirdly, a range of foreigners are on death row in Indonesia. The best way to have kept those two Australians alive was to say nothing so hopefully they are not moved up in the queue to spite Australia to win domestic political points.
Fourthly, someone of her legal training should be better at spinning conspiratorially yarns than this particularly weak work of imagination.
Who had the most colonies?
05 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: age of empires, British empire, colonisation
Dubai 1980 – 2013
04 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, energy economics, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: Dubai
Dubai 1980 – 2013. http://t.co/KzX2ShW8qn—
History Pics (@HistoryPixs) May 14, 2015
Which countries benefit from having the common law?
04 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, law and economics, property rights Tags: British empire, British justice, common law, legal systems
Should economic reform have been slower in the transitional economies?
03 Jun 2015 1 Comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economics of bureaucracy, growth disasters, growth miracles, Marxist economics, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: collapse of communism, economics of socialism, economics of transition, former USSR, Russia
Africa at night
01 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, energy economics, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: Africa
Africa has almost no light pollution – brilliantmaps.com/light-pollutio… http://t.co/3WeOasLBvr—
Brilliant Maps (@BrilliantMaps) April 29, 2015
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