Most of the improvement of disease outcomes over the past two centuries is due to better prevention rather than better treatments. And most of the things that have prevented disease were done for creature comfort rather than for disease prevention.…
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Welfare For Entrepreneurs
‘Extraordinary Bodies (Photo Exhibition)’ by Chris Big businesses is the most important part of the economy to get right because big organizations are where most productivity-enhancing innovations are created. The vast majority of entrepreneurs work in low-productivity-growth businesses. But entrepreneurship is…
Is The South-East Quadrant Of Asia Special?
China, India and nearby countries have been the most important drivers of world GDP from the dawn of agriculture until the industrial revolution when Europe finally boomed along with some European offshoots like the USA. Asia has always been the…
Posted in Development, Globalization & International
Unmasking Millionaire Superheroes: Edwin Chadwick and Thomas Southwood Smith
Max Roser has created a treasure trove of unique visualizations of data showing what the work of millionaire superheroes has accomplished over the past two centuries at his personal blog, and at his new site, Our World in Data. The…
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Norman Borlaug, Millionaire Superhero
Norman Borlaug is the first person that I thought of as a millionaire superhero because when he died in 2009, his obituaries usually credited him with saving millions of lives or even a billion lives. He and his teams of…
Posted in Development, Millionaire Superheroes
Millionaire Superheroes
Do you know anyone who has saved someone’s life? It is pretty heroic. The Medal of Honor, is sometimes awarded for saving a single life in a valiant way. So imagine how heroic it would be to save more than…
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Progressive Taxes Could INCREASE Inequality
UPDATED 2015/01/28 Cathie Jo Martin and Alexander Hertel-Fernandez wrote an interesting article on Vox arguing that progressive taxation increases inequality. It is a counter-intuitive argument, but their graph gives evidence for it: Their theory is that progressive taxation leads to…
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