All Posts Tagged With: "life expectancy"
Talk About a Revolution
What caused the Industrial Revolution? Few questions in economic history are discussed and debated as much as this one. Even if you happen to be among the small number of people who regret what historian (and Freeman columnist) Steve Davies calls “the wealth explosion” of the past couple of centuries, you must nevertheless find this [...]
24Aug2011 | Donald J. Boudreaux | 5 comments | ContinuedSeeing the Big Picture Is Child’s Play
In the face of the daily doom-and-gloom report we call the news, authors such as Matt Ridley perform an important service by showing us the big picture.
1Jul2010 | Steven Horwitz | 5 comments | ContinuedHas Medicare Extended Life?
Here are some facts that champions of Medicare are either ignorant of or hope you remain ignorant of. They leave the impression that before Medicare (pre-1965), life for “seniors” (hate that term) was unenviable because of lack of access to medical care. Since then, thanks to a government program that really “works,” things have turned [...]
18Aug2009 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedRemembering Julian Simon
Paul A. Cleveland is a professor of economics at Birmingham-Southern College in Alabama. Erin Hagert is studying economics at The King’s College in New York. The late Julian Simon was not a household name, but he left an indelible mark nonetheless by demanding that environmentalists produce evidence for their doomsday predictions. Meanwhile, he produced his [...]
1Jan2007 | and Paul A. Cleveland | 1 comment | ContinuedDoes Obesity Justify Big Government?
Last January media outlets reported that cancer had
overtaken heart disease as the number-one killer
in the United States. Sounds scary, no?
Social Security and the Insurance Illusion
In 1937, shortly after Franklin Roosevelt threatened to destroy the independence of the Supreme Court by “packing” it with ideological cronies, the Court came to heel and handed down verdicts in three cases affirming that the Social Security Act was, unlike several structurally similar pieces of pre-intimidation New Deal legislation, in accord with the U.S. [...]
1Sep2005 | Will Wilkinson | 3 comments | ContinuedThe Real Population Problem
According to one department of the United Nations, some 400 million people have vanished. This wasn’t a spate of alien abductions. Instead the UN’s Population Division (UNPD) lowered its projected world population figure for 2050 by 403 million. This revision is from the projection of just two years ago. The agency now concedes that the [...]
1Sep2003 | James Peron | 2 comments | ContinuedHow’s the Third World Doing?
The Third World is in trouble. Standards of living are plummeting, while the West is getting richer. Nearly everyone seems to believe it. The left wants to believe it as a justification for global socialism. Racists want to believe it because it “proves” the superiority of the white race. The media think it’s a good [...]
1Sep2002 | James Peron | 0 comments | ContinuedMarginalism and the Morality of Pricing Human Lives
When I ask students in my large economics classes if some things are just too important to put a price on, someone always answers, “human life.” This seems like a reasonable answer.
1Oct2000 | Dwight R. Lee | 0 comments | ContinuedMaterial Progress Over the Past Millennium
E. Calvin Beisner is associate professor of interdisciplinary studies at Covenant College, Lookout Mountain, Georgia, and the author of Prosperity and Poverty: The Compassionate Use of Resources in a World of Scarcity and several other books applying Christian theology and ethics to political economy. An earlier version of this article appeared in World magazine. Reginald [...]
1Nov1999 | E. Calvin Beisner | 0 comments | ContinuedHow Real Is the Asian Economic Miracle?
The post-war Asian economic miracle has come as a great shock to the economics profession. In my review of the top-ten textbooks (Economics on Trial, Irwin, 1993), few economists tell the wonders of Japanese prosperity and none reveals the secrets of the Four Tigers (Hong Kong, Singapore, Korea, and Taiwan) or the newly industrialized economies (Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand).
1Jul1996 | Mark Skousen | 1 comment | ContinuedA Vote for Optimism
As the twentieth century draws to a close and a new millennium begins, should we be optimistic or pessimistic about the course of the human race? Expect pundits and prognosticators of every persuasion to be offering up their views on this weighty question between now and the year 2000. Count me among the optimists. Not [...]
1Apr1996 | Lawrence W. Reed | 0 comments | Continued-
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