The Great Escape | Utopia, you are standing in it!

by Jim Rose in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics Tags: The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape

The world really is getting better:

Since yesterday:
Life expectancy went up by 9.5 hours
137,000 came out of poverty
305,000 got safer water
295,000 got electricity
620,000 got online for the first time

Thanks to @MaxCRoser & his incredible websitehttps://t.co/2r4lB6e03D pic.twitter.com/X3RNx1Jmpy

— Bjorn Lomborg (@BjornLomborg) July 22, 2018

Many Americans used to die from causes now long forgotten

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by Jim Rose in economic history, health economics Tags: The Great Escape

The top 10 causes of death in the US in 1900 vs. 2010

This is from https://t.co/LcyCfhjgNJ
Does someone know whether there is this data but the deaths of children only? pic.twitter.com/fKqJ43HtUh

— Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) June 7, 2018

#OTD

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by Jim Rose in development economics, growth miracles Tags: The Great Escape

If the media truly reported the important changes in the world, they could have run the headline NUMBER OF PEOPLE IN EXTREME POVERTY FELL BY 137,000 SINCE YESTERDAY every single day for the last 25 years. https://t.co/izjadntivj pic.twitter.com/rG9YoVHkI5

— Cato Institute (@CatoInstitute) July 25, 2018

Capitalism and Neoliberalism Have Made the World Better: Q&A with Johan Norberg

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by Jim Rose in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economic history, growth miracles Tags: The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape, The Great Fact

Vaccines are partly to blame

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The bold plan to end malaria with a gene drive despite @greenpeace @friends_earth opposition

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by Jim Rose in development economics, growth disasters, health economics Tags: child mortality, The Great Escape

Malaria used to be widespread

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by Jim Rose in economic history, health economics Tags: The Great Escape

Would you know who I should email to ask for the digitized version of this map so that I can use it for GIS?
Thank you! pic.twitter.com/nBiI2SZSA5

— Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) June 5, 2018

These are large increases in life expectancy

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Neither @GreenpeaceNZ nor @oxfamnz will ever trumpet these facts

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The left says it isn’t anti-science

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by Jim Rose in economic history, economics of regulation, environmental economics, health economics Tags: Anti-Science left, food safety, The Great Escape

Always worth noting #OTD

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by Jim Rose in development economics, economic history, growth miracles Tags: extreme poverty, The Great Escape

If the media truly reported the important changes in the world, they could have run the headline NUMBER OF PEOPLE IN EXTREME POVERTY FELL BY 137,000 SINCE YESTERDAY every single day for the last 25 years. https://t.co/izjadntivj pic.twitter.com/mKcLTjHr8r

— Cato Institute (@CatoInstitute) June 23, 2018

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by Jim Rose in economic history, health economics Tags: The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape, vaccines, women's liberation

The #1 reason people die early, in each country

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by Jim Rose in development economics, health economics Tags: life expectancies, The Great Escape

The Queen will have to mass produce those telegrams to centarians pretty soon

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by Jim Rose in health economics Tags: life expectancies, The Great Escape

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