In the last 25 years, more than 750 million people came out of poverty in China. Truly an amazing achievement: @OECDeconomy pic.twitter.com/tSQbS2URVy
— Alvaro Santos Pereira (@santospereira_a) October 13, 2016
The Great Escape in China
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in development economics, economic history, growth miracles
Why is Canada not part of the United States?
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in economic history Tags: Canada
The global mortality rate has fallen by 28% over the past quarter century
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The rise of a working rich in Australia
12 Oct 2016 Leave a comment
in economic history, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, politics - Australia, poverty and inequality, survivor principle Tags: superstar wages, superstars, top 1%, top incomes
Source: The World Wealth and Income Database.
Firing Line – Thomas Sowell w/ William F. Buckley Jr. (1981)
11 Oct 2016 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, discrimination, economic history, labour economics Tags: racial discrimination, Thomas Sowell
26th anniversary of Julian Simon @PaulREhrlich bet @GreenpeaceNZ @GreenpeaceUSA
11 Oct 2016 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economic history, energy economics, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, resource economics, survivor principle Tags: commodity prices, doomsday prophecies, endogenous growth theory, entrepreneurial alertness, Julian Simon, Paul Ehrlich
A 2011 blog post of mine on "the bet" rogerpielkejr.blogspot.com/2011/10/cornuc…
Attached a bigger bin of commodities & bet dates in red http://t.co/SC6HeuRwys—
Roger Pielke Jr. (@RogerPielkeJr) April 29, 2015
Lazy Australian top 0.1% only increased their income under @AustralianLabour
09 Oct 2016 Leave a comment
in economic history, industrial organisation, politics - Australia, poverty and inequality, survivor principle Tags: antimarket bias, entrepreneurial alertness, superstar wages, superstars, top 1%, top incomes
Australia’s top income earners are a lazy lot. The top 0.1% only ever had a rising income share under a Labor government in the 1980s. Even the top 1% had a pretty lean time until the 1990s.
Source: The World Wealth and Income Database.
Remembering the good old days before vaccines
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in economic history, health economics Tags: anti-vaccination movement, cranks, Luddites, polio, vaccinations, vaccines
Top 10 HUGE Historical MYTHS
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in economic history, economics of media and culture
Thomas Sowell – Robert Bork Hearings (1987)
07 Oct 2016 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics, labour economics, law and economics Tags: affirmative action, racial discrimination, Robert Bork, Thomas Sowell

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