What difference did the Kyoto protocol make and that’s before you consider 3rd World development
04 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, growth miracles, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: climate alarmism clock, climate treaties, expressive voting, free-riders, Kyoto Protocol, rational ignorance, rational irrationality
The lamps were going out all over Europe this day 1914
03 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, liberalism, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, war and peace Tags: World War I
The Great Escape in England 1930 – 2001
03 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, health economics Tags: British economy, capitalism and freedom, child mortality, infant mortality, life expectancies, The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape
The economics of trophy hunting
03 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, environmental economics, law and economics, property rights Tags: Africa, antimarket bias, conservation, economics of conservation, endangered species, expressive voting, offsetting behaviour, rational irrationality, The fatal conceit, The pretence to knowledge, uninte
Feuding with the Left over Left again @gtiso @helenkellyCTU
03 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, politics - New Zealand Tags: antimarket bias, expressive voting, Leftover Left, lost decades, rational ignorance, rational irrationality, Twitter left
North and South Korea in the 20th century
03 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, Marxist economics, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: central planning, North Korea, South Korea
Kerry Packer in full flight before a parliamentary committee
03 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of media and culture, entrepreneurship, income redistribution, Public Choice Tags: Kerry Packer
The Paul Berry biography of Kerry Packer is a brilliant read. A hundred hilarious stories to tell at a party and that’s just about Kerry Packer’s father, Sir Frank Packer.
Has Africa Outgrown Development Aid?
03 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, growth disasters, growth miracles, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: Africa, capitalism and democracy, capitalism and freedom, rule of law, The Great Fact
Deirdre McCloskey’s speech on ‘Bourgeois Dignity’
03 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic history, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, law and economics, property rights, survivor principle Tags: Deirdre McCloskey, entrepreneurial alertness, industrial revolution, The Great Enrichment, The Great Fact
Germany of 1871-1918
03 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history Tags: Germany, maps, World War I
The Second German Empire or 'Reich' 1871-1918 – bit.ly/1yYKDGm http://t.co/fDTOlJRV0d—
Brilliant Maps (@BrilliantMaps) December 18, 2014
The Great Escape – vaccine preventable deaths
02 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, economic history, health economics, politics - USA Tags: anti-vaccination movement, The Great Escape, vaccinations, vaccines
The Great Fact in India
02 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: India, The Great Fact
In #India poverty is falling very, very rapidly – while inequality is rising.
More at: bit.ly/1KLT8Lh http://t.co/xTxlW1i06o—
Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) June 29, 2015
I’m in hog heaven! Found a blog devoted to anomalies on maps!!
02 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of bureaucracy, Public Choice Tags: Bangladesh, economics of borders, enclaves, exclaves, geography, India, maps
via Say goodbye to the weirdest border dispute in the world – The Washington Post.
via An Apology of Enclaves – The New York Times.
The great new blog is http://bigthink.com/articles?blog=strange-maps
Death rates from the two leading causes of death in the USA since 1950
02 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, health economics, politics - USA Tags: life expectancies, The Great Escape
Figure 1: age-adjusted death rates from heart and cerebrovascular diseases, USA, 1950 – 2013
Source: Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.
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