Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Living in a Time of Wonders

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/world-population-in-extreme-poverty-absolute?tab=chart

Note that 1970 is just about exactly when your average North American decided that world poverty was a hopeless problem. 1990 was when international socialism collapsed.
Sept'16-Dierdre McCloskey hazards a guess as to why.