The marital division of labour
24 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
Women still do most of the household chores? Data on who does what in the house: goo.gl/3doqy4 #statistics https://t.co/fnY0d9OgkT—
DataStories (@LindaRegber) October 24, 2015
The bye-bye Biden effect on the Democratic presidential hopefuls
23 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
The bye-bye Biden effect on the Democratic presidential hopefuls econ.st/1ZZW958 https://t.co/1y7c3rjWAo—
The Economist (@ECONdailycharts) October 22, 2015
@oxfamnz 80% of the world lived in extreme poverty when my father was born
23 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
When my father was born, 7 in 10 people lived in absolute poverty.
Today, it's 1 in 10! https://t.co/1Caqku3AY1—
Tim Fernholz (@TimFernholz) October 21, 2015
Number living <$1.90/day in the 10 countries w/ largest extreme poor populations. using new @WorldBank #data @oxfam http://t.co/YQm8XSVpfK—
Nick Galasso (@vngalasso) October 19, 2015
The Global Middle Class Is Kind of Poor. Amazing graphic. buff.ly/1I5FDbz http://t.co/QB6maF7X2n—
Nick Galasso (@vngalasso) July 16, 2015
And people say I'm pessimistic! Is this the most important graph on the economic history of the world? HT @MaxCRoser http://t.co/pawcLOSadv—
Nick Galasso (@vngalasso) June 22, 2015
.@TheEconomist Great graph! Global #inequality to fall; what about within country #inequality? buff.ly/1c74E95 http://t.co/QTufMdR4om—
Nick Galasso (@vngalasso) May 21, 2015
Inequality has actually been falling in a lot of the world … but not in the U.S. washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/… https://t.co/VjnO8D6RQQ—
Matt O'Brien (@ObsoleteDogma) October 22, 2015
Carly Fiorina hits the ‘sweet spot’ on climate change
20 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
by Judith Curry
Carly Fiorina shows how to address the left on climate change.
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Israel-Palestine: 2 Very Different Narratives
19 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
Israel-Palestine: 2 Very Different Narratives http://t.co/I64ysntpu5—
ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) October 18, 2015
The Great Escape into the middle class in the Third World
18 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
#Dailychart: In almost every country, mortality rates fell during the four decades to 2010 econ.st/XUYuSn http://t.co/kTg4oyQPRY—
The Economist (@ECONdailycharts) September 23, 2014
The law and economics of Hemingway’s “Old Man and the Sea”
17 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
One of the stars of Dad’s Army, who played Private Godfrey, wrote one of the most performed plays of the 20th century. He sold the rights for £200 in the 1920s.
When asked about this deal 50 years later when the play was still popular and performed by amateur and professional theatre companies around the world, he said he really needed the £200 back in the 1920s and the money came in handy at the time. He had financial difficulties at the time as a theatre producer.
Here is an edited excerpt (without the footnotes) from our latest paper “Misappropriation and The Old Man and the Sea,” which we shall be presenting at the Cuban Research Institute at FIU this Friday:
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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