
Global obesity is on the rise
10 Apr 2016 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: economics of obesity
Dukes cigarettes: Norman Gunston – Australian TV commercial
09 Apr 2016 Leave a comment
in economics, health economics, television Tags: economics of smoking, Norman Gunston
Somehow this commercial was supposed to make smoking more appealing.
Prevalence of diabetes among New Zealand adults
07 Apr 2016 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: diabetes
Life expectancy is increasing, but so is poor health in old age
05 Apr 2016 Leave a comment
in fiscal policy, health economics, macroeconomics Tags: ageing society, disabilities, life expectancies
The underbelly of The Great Escape: trends in New Zealand BMIs
04 Apr 2016 Leave a comment
in economic history, health economics Tags: economics of obesity, The Great Fact
Vaccine reversal therapy
01 Apr 2016 Leave a comment
in health economics, politics - USA Tags: anti-vaccination movement
Robert Muldoon explained
27 Mar 2016 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, health economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: cranks, GMOs
What is driving the surge in opioid deaths among the elderly in the USA?
26 Mar 2016 Leave a comment
in health economics, liberalism Tags: drug overdoses, end-of-life choice, euthanasia, marijuana decriminalisation, war on drugs
More reasons to loathe anti-GMO activists
25 Mar 2016 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics Tags: agricultural economics, antiscience left, GMOs
Behind on bashing the anti-science left on #GMOs
21 Mar 2016 Leave a comment
in environmental economics, health economics Tags: antiscience left, GMOs, precautionary principle
HT: Stephen Berry.
George Orwell had it right 80 years ago on the #sugartax
21 Mar 2016 Leave a comment
in health economics, liberalism Tags: George Orwell, meddlesome preferences, nanny state, sugar tax, The fatal conceit
@mattyglesias on why greedy drug companies are heroes
20 Mar 2016 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, health economics, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, property rights Tags: avoiding difficult choices, drug lags, generic drugs, intellectual monopolies, invisible graveyard, patents and copyrights


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