The impact of religion and science on life expectancy
21 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of religion, health economics, technological progress Tags: life expectancy, The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape, The Great Fact
The Great Fact: Prospects for Ending Extreme Poverty by 2030
19 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: extreme poverty The Great Fact, global poverty, The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape
A look at hunger reduction → performance + projections by region: brook.gs/1FWLLOS http://t.co/ELNzKn6BCQ—
Brookings Global (@BrookingsGlobal) June 16, 2015
DRI-270 for week of 10-6-1: How is Job Safety Produced?
15 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in health and safety, labour economics Tags: compensating differentials, The Great Escape
This an excellent summary
An Access Advertising EconBrief:
How is Job Safety Produced?
The best-selling book on economics in the 20th century was probably Free to Choose, the 1980 defense of free markets by Milton and Rose Friedman. It contained a chapter entitled, “Who Protects the Worker?” In it, the authors highlighted the tremendous improvement in the working conditions and living standards of workers from the Industrial Revolution onward. What, they inquired rhetorically, accounted for this? The Friedmans suggested “labor unions” and “government” as the likely top two answers to any poll taken on this subject.
One of the nation’s leading experts on the subject of risk and safety is W. Kip Viscusi, long an economics professor at Harvard, Duke and Vanderbilt universities and now affiliated with the Independent Institute. In an essay on “Job Safety” for the Fortune Encyclopedia of Economics, Viscusi wrote: “Many people believe that employers do not…
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Improvements in life expectancy since 1900
15 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, environmental economics, health economics Tags: anti-vaccination movement, antiscience left, conspiracy theories, conspiracy theorists, life expectancy, Quacks, The Great Escape
Life expectancy and healthy life expectancy by gender, Anglo-Saxon countries
15 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics, labour economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, population economics Tags: ageing society, healthy life expectancy, life expectancy, The Great Escape
Figure 1: life expectancy and healthy life expectancy of women, Anglo-Saxon countries, 2010
Source: OECD family database.
Figure 2: life expectancy and healthy life expectancy of men, Anglo-Saxon countries, 2010
Source: OECD family database
Where was malaria once prevalent?
14 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, environmental economics, global warming, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics Tags: endemic diseases, global warming, infectious diseases, malaria, The Great Escape
Malaria was prevalent in Europe & USA
More in my Visual History of Global Health: OurWorldInData.org/VisualHistoryO… http://t.co/Fm21vXZJkS—
Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) June 08, 2015
The average American woman now weighs as much as the average 1960s man
14 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, politics - USA, poverty and inequality Tags: economics of physiology, family poverty, obesity, The Great Escape
The Great Escape is increasing life expectancy at all ages
13 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, health economics Tags: life expectancy, The Great Escape
It is not only about child mortality.
Life expectancy increased at all ages.bit.ly/1yM33gk http://t.co/MqKJVi3SmL—
Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) June 11, 2015
#Inequality of Life Expectancy fell rapidly over the course of modernity.
(From: bit.ly/1KMkukr) http://t.co/MvU071l0GX—
Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) June 11, 2015
Have the mass kidnappings extended to Oxfam and other principled ODA activists?
11 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: extreme poverty, global poverty, Left-wing hypocrisy, The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape, The Great Fact
Oxfam and other ODA activists should be dancing in the streets to celebrate the doubling of global median income in the last 10 years.
This is awesome news!!
Global median income has doubled(!) over the last 10 yearsNew paper: bit.ly/1JRwv90 http://t.co/4cq6x5pXpu—
Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) May 17, 2015
The only reason for them not doing this as they must have been kidnapped en mass.
Staggering #inequality: Top 1% will own 50% of world's wealth by 2016. Help us to #EvenItUp! http://t.co/NcNOqVcTgS—
Oxfam International (@Oxfam) March 20, 2015
We can only hope for their safe release.
Securing a just world means challenging the power of the 1% say civil society groups #WSF2015 oxf.am/ZfkL http://t.co/r2S0lkBoC2—
Oxfam New Zealand (@oxfamnz) March 23, 2015
Lower prices for oil/other commodities have intensified the slowdown in dev'ing countries wrld.bg/O9hq8 #GEP http://t.co/2IsmedNmgW—
World Bank Pubs (@WBPubs) June 11, 2015
Composition of the bottom 40% of the population in #LAC countries: wrld.bg/NkKZP #sharedprosperity http://t.co/MdublHSp59—
World Bank Pubs (@WBPubs) June 09, 2015
The extreme poor live in conflict & rural areas: wrld.bg/Nynge #endpoverty http://t.co/43HDDI11JR—
World Bank (@WorldBank) May 31, 2015
Increases in global life expectancy by region and cause
11 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics Tags: life expectancy, The Great Escape
The Great Escape: winning the war on disease
10 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics Tags: capitalism and freedom, extreme poverty, global poverty, life expectancy, The Great Escape, The Great Fact
The Great Escape and the supply of octogenarians
01 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: life expectancy, The Great Escape
Asia at night
31 May 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, economics of media and culture, energy economics, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: The Great Escape, The Great Fact
Light Pollution in Asia – brilliantmaps.com/light-pollutio… http://t.co/sWGvH3DZZ7—
Brilliant Maps (@BrilliantMaps) May 31, 2015
Hardhats on construction sites were pretty optional back in the day
31 May 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, health and safety, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: Empire State Building, New York City, The Great Escape
The Empire State building is dedicated in NYC. Here's a cool construction photo of the building, May 1st, 1931. http://t.co/map6v6A5dI—
Classic Pics (@classicepics) May 30, 2015
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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