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Stalin: Inside the Terror

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by Jim Rose in economic history, economics of bureaucracy, Marxist economics, Public Choice Tags: autocracy, Russia, Stalin, USSR

Source: Anti-Dismal: Stalin: Inside the Terror

Thomas Sowell talk in Jacksonville, FL (1993)

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by Jim Rose in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic history, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation Tags: Thomas Sowell

Source: Video: Thomas Sowell talk in Jacksonville, FL (1993) – AEI

How the FT reported the D-Day landings in 1944.

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by Jim Rose in economic history, industrial organisation, survivor principle, war and peace Tags: D-Day, World War II

How the FT reported the D-Day landings in 1944. We are nothing if not focused on our core mission…always. http://t.co/cEIVRmgEU7—
Financial Times (@FT) June 05, 2014

Poverty halves in #LatinAm in last 10 years, @WBG_Poverty @WorldBank still grumbling

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by Jim Rose in development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, poverty and inequality

Explore our LAC Equity Lab for latest data, #poverty & #inequality trends in #LatAm https://t.co/lIsOfmIwUD pic.twitter.com/qcVpyXePs6

— World Bank Poverty (@WBG_Poverty) May 29, 2016

In the last 5 years, #LatAm’s #growth was less beneficial to the #poor #lacfeaturegraph https://t.co/rMKnjhd40S pic.twitter.com/S9EwVl55Ka

— World Bank Poverty (@WBG_Poverty) May 29, 2016

The World Bank should enquire more as to why particular Latin countries succeeded while others did not and the economic systems employed in each.

Growth paths of #LatAm & the Caribbean the South East Tigers: http://t.co/GwnEHFw9eu #RiseoftheSouth pic.twitter.com/IFuUOWldox

— World Bank Publications (@WBPubs) May 31, 2015

Embrace the free market and overtake your socialist competitors. http://t.co/O7m1yfIbbe pic.twitter.com/xfpF4vtqlv

— Human Progress (@HumanProgress) October 5, 2015

#MiltonFriedman v. @berniesanders

05 Jun 2016 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, macroeconomics, Milton Friedman, minimum wage, occupational choice, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics Tags: 2016 presidential election, Leftover Left

Deirdre McCloskey on the importance of paying attention to what happened under the jackboot of neoliberalism

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by Jim Rose in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, development economics, economic history, economics of regulation, income redistribution, liberalism, Marxist economics

Source: Factual Free-Market Fairness | Bleeding Heart Libertarians.

One man’s courage

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27 years ago, one man stood up against a gov't that had killed thousands. https://t.co/wXsXYtmxQs #TiananmenSquare pic.twitter.com/SVpXqubktY

— Learn Liberty (@LearnLiberty) June 5, 2016

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Yes, the World is Getting Better. Here’s Why.

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by Jim Rose in applied welfare economics, development economics, economic growth, economic history Tags: pessimism bias, The Great Enrichment

Nuclear energy is a seriously safe power source

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by Jim Rose in economic history, energy economics, environmental economics, health and safety, labour economics Tags: coal prices, comic power, hydroelectric power, nuclear energy, risk risk trade-offs, solar power, wind power

3 common myths about capitalism

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by Jim Rose in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, industrial organisation Tags: capitalism and freedom, The Great Fact

Who said that the average voter cannot understand tariffs?

04 Jun 2016 Leave a comment

Economic policy election posters used to be better. pic.twitter.com/uLZkhnZSz1

— Duncan Weldon (@DuncanWeldon) June 4, 2016

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German territory lost in the 20th century

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by Jim Rose in defence economics, economic history Tags: East Germany, economics of borders, Germany, maps, World War I, World War II

Source: German territory lost in the 20th century – Vivid Maps

Workers’ Compensation: Growing Along with Productivity

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by Jim Rose in applied welfare economics, economic history, politics - USA Tags: living standards, measurement error, middle class stagnation, wage stagnation

Source: Workers’ Compensation: Growing Along with Product ivity.

Coal is the best resource we have in the fight to end poverty

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by Jim Rose in development economics, economic history, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: coal prices, rational irrationality, The Great Escape

General government net financial liabilities as % Portuguese, Italian, Greek, Spanish and Irish GDPs

03 Jun 2016 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in budget deficits, business cycles, economic growth, economic history, Euro crisis, financial economics, fiscal policy, global financial crisis (GFC), macroeconomics Tags: Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, public debt management, sovereign debt crises, sovereign defaults, Spain

I had borrowed a lot of money from scratch after 2007. Greece borrowed a lot of money of its own accord from 2010. Italy always owed a lot of money. Spanish do not know all that much money considering their dire financial circumstances.

Source: OECD Economic Outlook June 2016 Data extracted on 01 Jun 2016 12:57 UTC (GMT) from OECD.Stat

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