@NZGreens these are the faces of #vaccine denialism
02 Sep 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, environmental economics, health economics Tags: Anti-Science left, anti-vaccination movement, conjecture and refutation, New Zealand Greens, political psychology, quackery, vaccines
Life Expectancy in the #EU and the #US
02 Sep 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics, politics - USA Tags: EU, life expectancy, The Great Escape
Life Expectancy in the #EU and the #US
by RegioGIS http://t.co/cp7t0ee9wF—
Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) March 22, 2015
Income & life expectancy around the world
01 Sep 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics Tags: life expectancy, The Great Escape
Income & life expectancy around the world
Let's get all of the world to the top right corner!bit.ly/1939raP http://t.co/I83URpGeOX—
Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) May 12, 2015
Yes Prime Minister on the fiscal savings from smoking
01 Sep 2015 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, economics of regulation, health economics Tags: economics of smoking, nanny state, Yes Minister
Creative destruction in health crises
30 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of media and culture, health economics Tags: creative destruction, obesity, The Great Escape
Americans started consuming fewer calories when they saw the health crisis, not the jiggle. nyti.ms/1SMGoYE http://t.co/xsFR3U71tO—
The Upshot (@UpshotNYT) July 29, 2015
The essence of science for the Anti-science Left @NZGreens @GreenpeaceNZ #GMOs
30 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, environmental economics, global warming, health economics Tags: Anti-Science left, climate alarmism, economics of agriculture, global warming, GMOs, Greenpeace, New Zealand Greens, precautionary principle
No country for young Zimbabweans? # Zimbabwe life expectancies by age and gender since 1990
25 Aug 2015 1 Comment
in economic history, health economics Tags: AIDS, life expectancies, The Great Escape, Zimbabwe
Source: Life Expectancy by Age in selected Country from 1990 to 2013 | Health Intelligence.
Source: Life Expectancy by Age in selected Country from 1990 to 2013 | Health Intelligence.
The Bootleggers and Baptists alliance between big tobacco and anti-smoking lobbyists on e-cigarettes
25 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economics of regulation, health economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: bootleggers and baptists, economics of smoking, meddlesome preferences, nanny state, pressure groups, special interests
Canadian life expectancies by age and gender since 1990
23 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, health economics, population economics Tags: Canada, life expectancies, The Great Escape

Source: Life Expectancy by Age in selected Country from 1990 to 2013 | Health Intelligence.

Source: Life Expectancy by Age in selected Country from 1990 to 2013 | Health Intelligence.
The Great Escape still at full speed in #India: life expectancies by age and gender since 1990
22 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth miracles, health economics

Source: Life Expectancy by Age in selected Country from 1990 to 2013 | Health Intelligence.

Source: Life Expectancy by Age in selected Country from 1990 to 2013 | Health Intelligence.
Thousands deliberately overdose on homoeopathic medications! What happened?
22 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: cranks, homoeopathy, quackery
Utopia, you are standing in it!
Over the weekend of February 5th-6th 2011, more than 1500 homeopathy sceptics across the globe took part in a mass homeopathic ‘overdose’ to make a simple statement: Homeopathy – There’s Nothing In It.
Pinoy life expectancies by age and gender, 1990 to 2013
22 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, health economics Tags: life expectancies, Philippines, The Great Escape
Why @NZGreens @nzlabour @GreenpeaceNZ hate applied welfare economics
21 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, health economics, international economics, labour economics, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice Tags: antiforeign bias, antimarket bias, expressive voting, Greenpeace, Leftover Left, make-work bias, methodology of economics, New Zealand Greens, New Zealand Labour Party, rational ignorance, rational irrationality
Quotation of the Day from French Economist Frederic Bastiat in the 1850s http://t.co/2ECWtb6m9u—
Mark J. Perry (@Mark_J_Perry) August 14, 2015
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