Divided island: How Haiti and the DR became two worlds
07 Dec 2017 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, international economics Tags: economics of borders
Vernon Smith asked how did we struggle out of the caves, much less build civilizations under the weight of all these cognitive biases
02 Dec 2017 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, development economics, economic history Tags: cognitive psychology, The Great Enrichment
Joseph Schumpeter on why nobody ever got rich producing for the rich
29 Nov 2017 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history
Can extreme poverty ever be eradicated? | The Economist didn’t mention spread of capitalism, globalisation and deregulation
29 Nov 2017 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: capitalism and freedom, The Great Escape
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
In the last 25 years, more than 750 million people came out of poverty in China. Truly an amazing achievement:… twitter.com/i/web/status/7…—
Alvaro SantosPereira (@santospereira_a) October 13, 2016
What will it take to finish the “Last Mile” in ending extreme #poverty? brook.gs/1LiFT8E http://t.co/YxSZ36VCSW—
Brookings (@BrookingsInst) October 07, 2015
#OTD 2016 which was the better eulogy?
27 Nov 2017 Leave a comment
in development economics, Marxist economics
Hayek Lecture 2017: “Is the World Over or Underpopulated, and How Would We Know?”
26 Nov 2017 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, development economics, environmental economics, population economics Tags: The Great Enrichment
The global decline in child mortality
25 Nov 2017 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, health economics Tags: child mortality, infant mortality, The Great Escape
9 charts to be thankful for: humanity is getting better
24 Nov 2017 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, development economics, economic history, growth miracles Tags: pessimism bias, The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape, The Great Fact
How did dirty poor Bhutan became carbon negative @Greenpeace
17 Nov 2017 Leave a comment
in development economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, growth disasters
Access to clean fuels & tech for cooking essential in reducing indoor air pollution deaths in low-income nations… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…—
Hannah Ritchie (@HannahRitchie02) October 27, 2017
The ever-changing indictment against capitalism
16 Nov 2017 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, development economics, economic history
Is travelling in Papua New Guinea that dangerous?
14 Nov 2017 Leave a comment
in development economics, economics of crime
The Manus Island debates led me to notice I have travelled in far more dangerous places such as the Philippines. Also, if you are thinking are going to Bali, read its travel advisory.
When travelling to the Philippines, we make sure we are already outside of Manila because of the stray bullets on New Year’s Eve. There are guns everywhere. A M-16 looks a lot smaller in the flesh than on the telly.
Philippine banks have 3 security guards at the front with guns pointing horizontally ready to go at bank robbers. The Manila airport chief was assassinated a few years ago because she crackdown on corruption. The assassination was by a sniper.
Everything from airports to discos in the Philippines have gun deposit booths so that you and your bodyguards can deposit your guns at the door and collected them on the way out.
In Leyte, where we holiday at Christmas with family, it is common for politicians to have private armies of several dozen. When I was in the Philippines for a presidential election, there is a murder every day often of a rival candidate
My point is that the PNG is not the only dangerous country in Asia. If the asylum seekers from Afghanistan, and some are, the travel advisory is you are not safe even if you bring your own bodyguards.
About 200 of the residents of that camp have been denied asylums because their claims were not deemed to have merit. I do not see why Australia has any responsibility for them now. They are free to travel anywhere in PNG and anywhere else that will give them a visa.
The first @PaulKrugman on imposing labour standards on developing countries
13 Nov 2017 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth miracles, international economics
From http://www.slate.com/articles/business/the_dismal_science/1997/03/in_praise_of_cheap_labor.html 1997
Deirdre McCloskey on the grumblings of the Twitter Left
30 Oct 2017 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, economic history, growth miracles, poverty and inequality
Source: The Duel: Is inequality the root of all social ills? | Prospect Magazine.
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
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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