Angus Deaton – “The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality”

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What would @AOC @oxfam @Greenpeace @berniesanders @Greens @NZGreens choose?

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From http://coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2004/12/progressives_di.html

Richard Posner on the Breakup of AT&T: A Twenty-Five Year Retrospective” on YouTube

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Well done @jamespeshaw co-leader @NZGreens on #BDS Antisemitism

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Spot on Bryan Caplan

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Families and poverty

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The rise and fall of the Chinese Economy

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Angus Deaton: «lDevelopment aid is cynical» – Swiss Television SRF

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The price of NIMBYs

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by Jim Rose in economic growth, economics of regulation, macroeconomics, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, urban economics

From https://eml.berkeley.edu/~moretti/growth.pdf

#CancelMarx

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Cannot enforce a treaty if there was no meeting of minds on what was agreed

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Note for the politically correct

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Barry Seal: The American Pilot who Smuggled for Pablo Escobar

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Jordan Peterson on @BillMaher

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Opinion: Can the government breach the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement?

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