
Vaccines are the greatest public health intervention ever
15 May 2020 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: The Great Escape, vaccines

What Hygiene Was Like in Colonial America
05 May 2020 Leave a comment
in economic history, health economics Tags: The Great Escape
Can the Free Market End Global Poverty? Joseph Stiglitz vs. William Easterly
26 Apr 2020 Leave a comment
in Bill Easterly, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of regulation, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, P.T. Bauer, privatisation, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape
#EarthDay @GreenpeaceAP @Greens @NZGreens @jamespeshaw @AOC @BernieSanders @Oxfam @SenWarren
23 Apr 2020 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, growth miracles, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: pessimism bias, The Great Escape

Jason Brennan: Fake Socialism vs. Real Capitalism
20 Apr 2020 Leave a comment
in Adam Smith, applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, growth miracles, health and safety, history of economic thought, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, Marxist economics, Milton Friedman, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: Age of Enlightenment, capitalism and freedom, The Great Escape
The psychology behind a pandemic – Steven Pinker
10 Apr 2020 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: cognitive psychology, economics of pandemics, evolutionary psychology, political psychology, The Great Escape
Steven Pinker | Talks at Google
07 Apr 2020 Leave a comment
in defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of crime, health economics, law and economics Tags: Age of Enlightenment, The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape
The Great Fact
06 Apr 2020 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth miracles Tags: The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape








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