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The Ten Pillars of Economic Wisdom
10 May 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of education, economics of information, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, energy economics, entrepreneurship, financial economics, health economics, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, survivor principle Tags: David Anderson, evidence-based policy, offsetting behaviour, pretence to knowledge, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
Coming to a nanny state near you
10 May 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, health economics Tags: compassion Fascists, food police, health warnings, meddlesome preferences, nanny state, safety Nazis
The left has become it once mocked. They are all school marms now. http://t.co/2AgTfZ2ZuQ—
The Left, Exposed (@leftexposed) February 11, 2015
Organic farming is a rebranding of pre-industrial revolution agriculture
09 May 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of information, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, health economics, technological progress Tags: agricultural economics, consumer fraud, industrial revolution, organic farming, quackery, The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape
Product disclosure by medical quacks
07 May 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of information, economics of media and culture, health economics Tags: alternative lifestyles, antiscience left, natural medicine, Quacks
Do vaccines work?
07 May 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: anti-vaccination movement, measles, vaccines
How the Antiscience Left approaches inconvenient evidence
06 May 2015 1 Comment
in environmental economics, global warming, health economics Tags: Anti-Science left, anti-vaccination movement, climate alarmism, conjecture and refutation, GMOs, precautionary principle, Twitter left, University of the Internet
The steady decline of smoking
05 May 2015 Leave a comment
in economics, health economics Tags: economics of smoking
#Cigarette #smoking is so 1970! (Want to see more graphics like this? Follow @MaxCRoser.) ow.ly/M4kvK http://t.co/VMfzc4QwOP—
Peter Ubel (@peterubel) April 24, 2015
Palm Reading explained
05 May 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of information, economics of media and culture, health economics Tags: Palm Reading, quackery
Did vaccines work in India?
05 May 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, health economics Tags: anti-vaccination movement, India, The Great Escape, vaccinations, vaccines
Organic farming versus world hunger
04 May 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics Tags: Anti-Science left, extreme poverty, global poverty, world under
Peaches after 6000 in years of genetic modification
02 May 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of media and culture, environmental economics, health economics Tags: agricultural economics, Anti-Science left, GMOs, Leftover Left, quackery
Creative destruction in tobacco
02 May 2015 Leave a comment
in entrepreneurship, health economics Tags: creative destruction, economics of smoking, entrepreneurial alertness
Per capita consumption of #tobacco in the United States via @USGA & @voxdotcom: plot.ly/~Dreamshot/1999 http://t.co/W5J1D2iJQN—
plotly (@plotlygraphs) April 21, 2015
The Great Escape in one chart
02 May 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, health economics Tags: life expectancy, The Great Escape
#Dailychart: In almost every country, mortality rates fell during the four decades to 2010 econ.st/XUYuSn http://t.co/kTg4oyQPRY—
The Economist (@ECONdailycharts) September 23, 2014
How infectious is measles?
02 May 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: anti-vaccination movement, measles, network economics, vaccines
A Measles patient infects 12-18 other people.
An Ebola patient infects 1-2.5 other people. http://t.co/iQS0c6vxYz—
Amitabh Chandra (@amitabhchandra2) April 24, 2015
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