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Retail Clothing Prices for Men/Boys Have Been Going Up Faster Than Prices for Women/Girls https://t.co/zAs6kK6olO pic.twitter.com/huNhItZr6k

— Mark J. Perry (@Mark_J_Perry) December 25, 2015

Singapore Spring

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by Jim Rose 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

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by Jim Rose in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics Tags: The Great Escape

18.1% of all children born on this planet in 1960 died before they had their fifth birthday https://t.co/Y1UTVXAGKd pic.twitter.com/1FcIzAk88b

— Ninja Economics (@NinjaEconomics) December 28, 2015

Watch the Eastern Roman Empire become the Byzantine Empire.

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by Jim Rose in economic history Tags: Roman empire

Watch the Eastern Roman Empire become the Byzantine Empire. https://t.co/NMLu6PoLsY pic.twitter.com/Bfp2cORPMj

— Vox Maps (@VoxMaps) December 9, 2015

Urban growth, Cancún

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Creative destruction in jeans

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by Jim Rose 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—
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In 1860, the NYT reviews “On the Origin of Species.”

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by Jim Rose in economic history Tags: evolution

1831: The HMS Beagle set out. In 1860, the NYT reviews "On the Origin of Species." https://t.co/8J6Fwlb0Pn pic.twitter.com/fJmFTMghF3

— The New York Times Archives (@NYTArchives) December 27, 2015

Time to reach 50 million users

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by Jim Rose in economic history, industrial organisation, survivor principle Tags: creative destruction, technology diffusion

Time to reach 50 million users:

Radio 38 years
TV 13 years
Internet 4 years@twitter 9 months
Angry Birds 35 days pic.twitter.com/mYAx7GdWRW

— Vala Afshar (@ValaAfshar) December 12, 2015

The miracle of air-conditioning

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by Jim Rose 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—
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The Soviet Union’s flag came down for the last time today 1991

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by Jim Rose 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?

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Occupational Health & Safety has come a long way

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by Jim Rose 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—
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