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The French used to drink far too much wine?

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by Jim Rose in economic history, health economics

2) Some fascinating trends in changing drinking habits around the world.
• Did you know, in 1961 the average French adult drank equivalent of 25 glasses of wine per week? And that this has halved?
• Or that wine-producing countries have seen the sharpest declines in drinking? pic.twitter.com/Cckjeb65v1
— John Burn-Murdoch (@jburnmurdoch) February 7, 2020

3) Changing drinking preferences are interesting, too:
• Most wine-producing countries are gradually moving off wine and onto beer
• Many beer-dominated cultures are moving off beer and onto wine! In fact, Brits now drink more wine than beer (partly due to more women drinking) pic.twitter.com/goyxHiHvjh
— John Burn-Murdoch (@jburnmurdoch) February 7, 2020

War, poverty and inequality: Is there any good news? | Steven Pinker

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by Jim Rose in defence economics, development economics, economic history, law and economics Tags: Age of Enlightenment, The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape

The Myth of the Rational Voter – Bryan Caplan

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when four millennials traveled to Cuba recently to investigate socialism

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by Jim Rose in Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, theory of the firm Tags: Cuba, economics of central planning, fall of communism

Robert Lucas on the Monetary History

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#climateemergency

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The Coming Meltdown in Labor Relations

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by Jim Rose in economic history, economics of information, economics of regulation, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, Richard Epstein, theory of the firm, unions Tags: employment law, inequality of bargaining power, union power

#OTD #globalwarming #climateemergency @GreenpeaceAP @Greens

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Alfred Marshall on superstar wages – Alan Krueger – Rockonomics

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The legacy of 175 years of colonialism

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The blessings of British colonisation

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Thomas Sowell on affirmative action

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Mapping how railroads built America | Maptastic ep 3

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Question for @AOC @BernieSanders @jeremycorbyn

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Competition Law and the Free Market – The Antitrust Paradox: A Policy at War with Itself – Easterbrook, Ginsberg and Manne

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