Life expectancy: Who wants to live forever? http://t.co/GQJSZLtHhq pic.twitter.com/0xgMFI7XTK
— The Economist (@TheEconomist) August 27, 2015
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
Japanese life expectancies by age and gender, 1990 to 2013
21 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics, population economics Tags: Japan, life expectancies, The Great Escape
The return of The Great Escape to Russia: life expectancies by age and sex, 1990 to 2013
20 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics, population economics Tags: collapse of communism, life expectancies, Russia, The Great Escape
@NZGreens @GreenpeaceNZ Senator Leyonhjelm on the blood on the hands of the modern Luddites
19 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, development economics, economic history, economics of information, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, environmental economics, environmentalism, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics, liberalism Tags: Anti-Science left, expressive voting, GMOs, golden rice, Greenpeace, Luddites, New Zealand Greens, precautionary principle, rational ignorance, rational irrationality, The Great Escape
Good as Gold: Can Golden Rice and Other Biofortified Crops Prevent Malnutrition? ow.ly/QQ1VT #Harvard http://t.co/O3SwpGhsXD—
Golden Rice (@Golden_Rice) August 13, 2015
INFOGRAPHICS: The Impacts of #Biotechnology: A Close Look at the Latest Study ow.ly/GUi4U @FoodInsight http://t.co/JQsmrm2Lv1—
Golden Rice (@Golden_Rice) January 07, 2015
Anti-Golden Rice keyboard
Used by opponent to debate against supporters of #goldenrice
@EcoSenseNow @Golden_Rice http://t.co/q6xt5j7hb1—
Golden Rice Now (@paulevans18) August 21, 2015
.@gpph If this girl could have eaten #goldenrice for lunch, she would not be blind today. ALLOW GOLDEN RICE NOW http://t.co/3UlwHAdWdZ—
Golden Rice Now (@paulevans18) July 29, 2015
British life expectancies by age and sex, 1990 to 2013
19 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics, population economics Tags: British economy, life expectancies, The Great Escape
The Great Escape is on-going
18 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, development economics, economic history, environmental economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics Tags: child mortality, global poverty, infant mortality, life expectancies, stream poverty, The Great Escape, The Great Fact
https://twitter.com/humanprogress/status/631179133989617665/photo/1
The total number of undernourished persons is falling despite population growth. buff.ly/1MgKWqd #food #health http://t.co/YfAltqvxVy—
HumanProgress.org (@humanprogress) August 11, 2015
Extreme poverty is declining, but more quickly in some places than others. See the data: buff.ly/1DDz0O5 http://t.co/W1a0WpCxHI—
HumanProgress.org (@humanprogress) August 11, 2015
Life expectancy by age and sex in New Zealand’s, 1990 to 2013
17 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics, politics - New Zealand, population economics Tags: capitalism and freedom, life expectancies, The Great Escape
Julian Simon on Resources, Growth and Human Progress
17 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, development economics, economic history, energy economics, entrepreneurship, environmentalism, health economics, liberalism, resource economics Tags: capitalism and freedom, commodity prices, creative destruction, entrepreneurial alertness, Julian Simon, life expectancies, peak oil, The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape, The Great Fact
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