The reverse gender gap in clothes prices
29 Dec 2015 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economic history, gender Tags: reverse gender gap
Singapore Spring
29 Dec 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, growth miracles, Public Choice Tags: Asian Tigers, Singapore
The Great Escape in infant mortality
28 Dec 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics Tags: The Great Escape
Watch the Eastern Roman Empire become the Byzantine Empire.
28 Dec 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history Tags: Roman empire
Creative destruction in jeans
28 Dec 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of media and culture, entrepreneurship Tags: creative destruction, The Great Enrichment
Today, it takes less work to earn enough to buy jeans than it did in the 1950s. buff.ly/1cT86Vb #progress http://t.co/WtEn735cPP—
HumanProgress.org (@humanprogress) June 14, 2015
In 1860, the NYT reviews “On the Origin of Species.”
28 Dec 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history Tags: evolution
Time to reach 50 million users
27 Dec 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, industrial organisation, survivor principle Tags: creative destruction, technology diffusion
The miracle of air-conditioning
26 Dec 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, energy economics, entrepreneurship, technological progress Tags: air-conditioning, Grady destruction, The Great Fact
Summer heat would be much harder to bear without air conditioning. buff.ly/1HA0ofu #tech #progress http://t.co/ppibFdeMhs—
HumanProgress.org (@humanprogress) June 12, 2015
The Soviet Union’s flag came down for the last time today 1991
26 Dec 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, liberalism, Marxist economics Tags: collapse of communism, fall of the USSR, Russia, unanticipated revolutions
@Greenpeace why are German and Danish power prices so high?
24 Dec 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economic history, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: Big Solar, Big Wind, bootleggers and baptists, climate alarmism, Denmark, Germany, green rent seeking, power prices, solar power, wind power
Occupational Health & Safety has come a long way
23 Dec 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, health and safety, labour economics Tags: workplace safety
A fearless worker standing on the unfinished Golden Gate Bridge, 1935. http://t.co/wxR1f96gMN—
History in Pictures (@HistoryFlick) August 12, 2015
Polio in Africa
23 Dec 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics Tags: Africa, anti-vaccination movement, polio, The Great Escape, vaccinations, vaccines
The battle against Polio in Africa http://t.co/LYB2nGZlAB—
Amazing Maps™ (@amazingmap) June 30, 2015


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