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Behind on vaccines blogging
21 Jan 2025 Leave a comment
in economic history, health economics Tags: anti-vaccination movement, regressive left, The Great Escape, vaccines
#vaccines work
17 Jan 2025 Leave a comment
in economic history, environmental economics, health economics Tags: anti-vaccination movement, child mortality, infant mortality, life expectancies, The Great Escape, vaccines
Polio
05 Jan 2025 Leave a comment
in economic history, health economics Tags: anti-vaccination movement, The Great Escape, vaccines
The curse of socialism
27 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, growth disasters, health economics, history of economic thought, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, property rights, Public Choice Tags: economics of socialism, The Great Escape
The Great Escape
29 Nov 2024 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: child mortality, infant mortality, life expectancies, The Great Escape
*Best Things First*
01 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, development economics, growth disasters, health economics Tags: The Great Escape
The author is Bjorn Lomborg, and the subtitle is The 12 most efficient solutions for the world’s poorest and our global SDG promises. I missed this book when it first came out last year. Here is what Lomborg presents as the twelve best global investments, in no particular order: Tuberculosis Maternal and newborn health Malaria […]
*Best Things First*
Life expectancies
27 Feb 2024 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: life expectancies, The Great Escape
Wrong from the start:
04 Jan 2024 Leave a comment
in economic history, labour economics, labour supply, population economics, poverty and inequality Tags: capitalism and freedom, The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape, The Great Fact
In 1798, Thomas Malthus told the world to expect collapse – “Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio.”
30 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, health economics Tags: child mortality, life expectancies, The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape
📸 Look at this post on Facebook
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The Great Enrichment
28 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth miracles, health economics Tags: child mortality, life expectancies, The Great Escape
📸 Look at this post on Facebook
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A Pro-Globalization Banquet
05 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, income redistribution, international economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: Age of Enlightenment, The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape
If you want to drink deeply of unabashedly pro-globalization essays, the Cato Institute has a “Defending Globalization” project underway. The well-written essays are mostly short or mid-length, and clearly aimed at the general public–including undergraduate students. I can’t hope to summarize the essays here, and indeed, more essays are on their way (and you can…
A Pro-Globalization Banquet
The Great Escape
20 Apr 2023 Leave a comment
in economic history, health economics Tags: child mortality, life expectancies, The Great Escape
The Great Escape
18 Nov 2022 Leave a comment
in economic history, health economics Tags: life expectancies, The Great Escape
Polio
18 Aug 2022 Leave a comment
in economic history, health economics Tags: anti-vaccination movement, The Great Escape, vaccines
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