Make Progress, Not Work! Bryan Caplan’s best single video
21 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
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Joseph Schumpeter on The Great Enrichment
18 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
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Everything’s Amazing and Nobody’s Happy
18 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
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Life expectancy by age and sex in New Zealand’s, 1990 to 2013
17 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
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Julian Simon on Resources, Growth and Human Progress
17 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
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@WJRosenbergCTU A brief history of rising equality in New Zealand
13 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economic history, economics of media and culture, income redistribution, labour economics, politics - New Zealand, poverty and inequality, Public Choice Tags: capitalism and freedom, Leftover Left, The Great Enrichment, The Great Fact, top 1%, Twitter left
Bill Rosenberg at the Council of Trade Unions was good enough to tweet a Treasury chart that shows next to no increases in inequality in New Zealand for at least 20 years.
A brief history of inequality-from Treasury paper Fig4. Note Employment Contracts Act,GST,income tax,benefit cuts,WFF http://t.co/y4w3cUsgjD—
Bill Rosenberg (@WJRosenbergCTU) June 27, 2015
Inequality in both market and disposable incomes has been stable for a good 20 years, as the above tweet shows, while inequality in consumption has been falling. To back this interpretation of mine up, coincidentally today Bryan Perry published his annual report on income and inequality under the banner of the Ministry of Social Development.
His report showed that there be no significant increase in New Zealand in at least 20 years.
The Great Escape in England 1930 – 2001
03 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, health economics Tags: British economy, capitalism and freedom, child mortality, infant mortality, life expectancies, The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape
Has Africa Outgrown Development Aid?
03 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
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The fates of two islands under constant threat from a neighbouring military colossus
01 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
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Deirdre McCloskey on the Samaritan’s dilemma
30 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
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The Great Escape in infant mortality is still on-going
30 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics Tags: capitalism and freedom, child mortality, infant mortality, life expectancies, The Great Escape, The Great Fact
New Blog: "MDG4: A dramatic decline in child mortality over the last 20 years" blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/mdg4-… #opendata http://t.co/lSAS8SU5Od—
World Bank Data (@worldbankdata) July 16, 2015
Democracy in Africa
29 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
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#Africa is turning democratic.
From my project: bit.ly/1DkpYjW http://t.co/WX0sTQPTv9—
Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) July 26, 2015
Shanghai Sky
28 Jul 2015 1 Comment
in development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, Marxist economics, Music Tags: capitalism and freedom, China, collapse of communism, Joe Jackson, Shanghai
Shanghai in 1990 vs 2010. http://t.co/a6JPeHzsBX—
History In Pictures (@HistoryInPics) July 20, 2015
Hong Kong and Venezuela compared
27 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economics of bureaucracy, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: capitalism and freedom, Hong Kong, Latin American crony capitalism, Venezuela
Socialism works -Venezuela twice as rich as Hong Kong!
No, wait, that was in 1960. http://t.co/sqwVnMc19t—
Screwed by State (@ScrewedbyState) July 26, 2015
Capitalism and Pope Francis
22 Jul 2015 1 Comment
in development economics, economic history, economics of religion, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: capitalism and freedom, East Asian Tigers, Latin American popularism, Pope Francis, The Great Escape, The Great Fact
https://twitter.com/Mark_J_Perry/status/620591953290375169/photo/1
Pope's plan to curtail use of fossil fuels will hurt the poor, see chart and @FurchtgottRoth tinyurl.com/oy5w5o3 http://t.co/YWEloL04MK—
Mark J. Perry (@Mark_J_Perry) June 21, 2015
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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