A map from the iBooks edition of atlas of prejudice.The complete stereotype map collection #Trump2016 #NVcaucus pic.twitter.com/aslfN6G3bM
— AbdAllah (@Abdallahimself) February 24, 2016
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
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