Conspiracy theories versus the supply and demand for scientists who are approachable about their findings
11 Jun 2015 5 Comments
in environmental economics, health economics Tags: anti-vaccination movement, bribery and corruption, climate alarmists, conjecture and refutation, conspiracy theories, conspiracy theorists
Increases in global life expectancy by region and cause
11 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics Tags: life expectancy, The Great Escape
Parents that don’t vaccinate
11 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: anti-vaccination movement, antiscience left, quackery
The Great Escape: winning the war on disease
10 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics Tags: capitalism and freedom, extreme poverty, global poverty, life expectancy, The Great Escape, The Great Fact
GMO labelling will increase the price of food for the poor
09 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economics of information, health economics Tags: GMOs, Left-wing hypocrisy
Big Pharma versus Big Placebo
09 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: anti-vaccination movement, antiscience left, conspiracy theories, conspiracy theorists
The rising gales of creative destruction in brewing
09 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, health economics, industrial organisation, survivor principle Tags: alcohol regulation, beer brewing, creative destruction, entrepreneurial alertness, innovation
Breweries in the US http://t.co/rcYlpmJspa—
Charts and Maps (@ChartsandMaps) April 11, 2015
The price, output and acreage effects of a GMO ban
08 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, economics of regulation, environmental economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, population economics, technological progress Tags: agricultural economics, expressive voting, extreme poverty, global hunger, global poverty, GMOs, Left-wing hypocrisy, rational ignorance, rational irrationality, The Great Fact
Organic farming is a gift….
facebook.com/welovegv http://t.co/iu8Jq0KcHD—
C. S. Prakash (@AgBioWorld) June 05, 2015
Projected increases in corn and soy prices in a world without GMOs
ageconsearch.umn.edu/bitstream/2049… http://t.co/PNydjpl59K—
C. S. Prakash (@AgBioWorld) June 08, 2015
If you outlaw GMOs, be prepared to bring millions of acres of forest land, cropland & pasture under farming http://t.co/H9ftkxhXYe—
C. S. Prakash (@AgBioWorld) June 08, 2015
If GMOs are banned today in the US, what would be the crop yield reduction? http://t.co/pEn73PODcR—
C. S. Prakash (@AgBioWorld) June 08, 2015
Where is alcohol consumption highest?
04 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, health economics Tags: alcohol regulation, economics of prohibition
#Dailychart: Where is alcohol consumption highest? It's not where you might think econ.st/1gIERk4 http://t.co/RBwfGwKgAn—
The Economist (@ECONdailycharts) May 15, 2014
More and more countries still think smokers don’t know the risks of cancer sticks
02 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of information, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, health economics Tags: economics of smoking, nanny state, Other people are stupid fallacy, paternalism, risk trade-offs
The war on smoking, in one chart i100.io/6f3d2uj http://t.co/mlajmx68yq—
i100 (@thei100) November 26, 2014
The Great Escape and the supply of octogenarians
01 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: life expectancy, The Great Escape
The Great Escape in one chart
30 May 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics Tags: life expectancy, The Great Escape
Lord Acton on what to do with the anti-vaccination movement
30 May 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics, liberalism Tags: anti-vaccination movement, conjecture and refutation, Lord Acton, political persuasion, political psychology
RT if you think PETA members and other animal rights activists should sign this medical release now
26 May 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: animal liberation, animal rights, Anti-Science left, Left-wing hypocrisy, PETA
What did vaccines do
23 May 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, health economics Tags: anti-vaccination movement, The Great Escape, vaccines


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