Two data points and a question: 1. This graph showing the dramatic 80% reduction in the world poverty rate over the last 40 years: 2. This Gapminder survey showing that 95% of Americans asked believe that poverty rates have stayed the same or increased: The question: What explains the great discrepancy between reality and belief? […]
Poverty reduction and public awareness Read More »
The great Rosling has published another dramatic set of visuals — this one on the great progress in reducing child mortality rates in the developing world. One more data-driven reason for optimism.
Myths of developing nations: Hans Rosling Read More »
Count me a huge fan of Rosling’s work: See also his “200 countries, 200 years, 4 minutes.”
Hans Rosling’s magic washing machine Read More »
Simply wonderful, both in content and presentation: Related posts: Why life is 255 times better now than in 1800. Why life in America is 40 times better than in 1900. Why the nano is 750 times better than the Walkman. [Via Café Hayek.]
Hans Rosling’s newest Read More »
4/28 John Stossel proposes: consistently undersell capitalism. And marketing professor Jerry Kirkpatrick, author of debunks subliminal advertising. 4/27 Beautiful photographs of Cultural and religious control-freaks and controlling yet more “inappropriate” sexual expression. And of course this is entrepreneurial transformation of American business. Key quotation: “since 1980, more than 5 million jobs have disappeared from Fortune
Worth Reading for April 2007 Read More »