Most climate alarmists do not separate the policy issues, the economic issues, from the science of global warming as suggested in this flowchart. Specifically, they do not ask what is the economic and social cost of global warming.
How to deal with science denialists
03 Mar 2016 Leave a comment
in economics of education, economics of information, economics of media and culture, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, health economics Tags: antiscience left, climate alarmism, growth of knowledge, philosophy of science, quackery, Quacks
The World according to @BernieSanders
02 Mar 2016 Leave a comment
Nokia phone ~2004 vs. iPhone ~2015.
29 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of media and culture, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation Tags: cell phones, iPhones, mobile phones, technology diffusion, The Great Enrichment
https://twitter.com/pmarca/status/679842098632249344
https://twitter.com/JustHistoryPics/status/699047605070884866
Are vaccines really necessary
29 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of media and culture, health economics Tags: anti-vaccination movement, The Great Escape, vaccinations, vaccines
@Twitter is now a #safespace so #RIPTwitter
26 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, liberalism, politics - USA
https://twitter.com/politicsinmemes/status/702895866613514240
Source: Someone on Twitter is engaging in abusive or harassing behavior. | Twitter Help Center.
Note from @paulkrugman to @BernieSanders @JeremyCorbyn and their supporters
23 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic history, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, labour economics, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, politics - USA Tags: 2016 presidential election, antiforeign bias, antimarket bias, British politics, Leftover Left, make-work bias, rational ignorance, rational irrationality, renegade Left, Twitter left
Don’t you miss the good old days before TV when democracy was less transparent
22 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in economics of information, economics of media and culture, politics - USA, Public Choice
Where does this stairwell in India go
19 Feb 2016 1 Comment
Fly like a bird – I do not know how they do this?
18 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in economics, economics of media and culture
HT: Richard Macdonald from Vince Reffet
@nusuk labels @PeterTatchell, of all people, a reactionary!
16 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, liberalism
Apartheid South Africa tried to set Peter Tatchell up as a bank robber to smear his anti-apartheid activities – bizarre black propaganda. Arrested 300 times, left brain-damaged from a bashing by Mugabe’s thugs, he is now listed as a national treasure for his relentlessly principled activism.
Milton Friedman on racism and sexism in Hollywood, today and yesterday
16 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, economics of media and culture, entrepreneurship, labour economics, law and economics, liberalism, politics - USA
David Henderson reminded me of the superb discussion by Milton Friedman in Capitalism and Freedom of the way in which the marketplace erodes prejudice.
Source: Milton Friedman on Trumbo, David Henderson | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty.
@NewStatesman @WebbTrust prize-winning essay on inequality missed The Great Escape
13 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, economics of media and culture, growth miracles Tags: capitalism and freedom, extreme poverty, global poverty, Leftover Left, rational irrationality, The Great Escape, The Great Fact, Twitter left
Source: How can growth reduce inequality?
When my father was born, 7 in 10 people lived in absolute poverty.
Today, it's 1 in 10! https://t.co/1Caqku3AY1—
Tim Fernholz (@TimFernholz) October 21, 2015
世界の所得分布、1988 → 2011年 ourworldindata.org/VisualHistoryO…
この間の世界の富裕分の殆どを中国で説明できそうだ。インドはあまり変わってない。 https://t.co/ygWYornmY8—
Spica (@Kelangdbn) October 19, 2015
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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