Managing Editor of @HumanProgress & @CatoInstitute Policy Analyst. @IWF Visiting Fellow. Author, Centers of Progress Grim Old Days: a.co/d/00a137Ny
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1/ š§µ Raising children is expensive, but my chapter in the @CatoInstitute's new Handbook on Affordability outlines specific policy changes that reduce costs for families with kids.
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Degrowth is a mind virus
Jun 10
This should be a wake-up call for the UKā¦
(Note that this is a per-capita chart)
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Jun 10
This new op-ed from economists like Piketty, Stiglitz, and Hickel call for essentially de-growth. A few notable incorrect statements here š§µ
theguardian.com/commentisfreā¦
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Jun 13
In Europe, until the late seventeenth century, the ordinary home might have had a table, some benches, a chair, a cupboard, fireplace tools, and cooking implementsāand that was about it.
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Jun 13
When I first read this thread, I found myself amused by the phrase āanti-poverty scholar.ā Are there pro-poverty scholars? But given the number of degrowth advocates on the far Left and those indulging feudal nostalgia on the far Right, Iām no longer sure the answer is no.
Jun 13
(Also, it IS true that Iām anti-poverty, so thereās that!)
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Jun 12
I was honored to be asked to write biographical entry for Joel Mokyr for the Library of Economics and Liberty econlib.org/library/enc/biosā¦
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Jun 10
"[N]o matter what baseline they chose, the absolute poverty rate fell by at least three-quarters. When including the value of health insurance, poverty fell by up to 97 percent."
The enormous rise in living standards is among the greatest success stories in human history, the Editorial Board writes. wapo.st/4uSatQg
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Jun 9
Data suggest that additional human beings do not impoverish the rest of humanity.
Between 1980 and 2025, the world population grew by 85%, while global resource abundance increased by 536%.
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Well, the problem is that several countries have tried quite large transfer payments, much larger than anything implemented in the U.S., and the effect has been close to zero.
Maybe the answer is more complicated.
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Jun 9
āIn 2025, a median of 82% of adults across 138 countries said they were satisfied with their freedom to choose what they do with their lifeā āThis is nominally the highest level of satisfaction on record,ā
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And income inequality is not the only form of inequality that has declined globally.
Jun 8
Global income inequality, between countries and among individuals worldwide, is declining. Read more by @Marian_L_Tupy @RonaldBailey @HumanProgress humanprogress.org/trends/gloā¦
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The key finding of the report is that energy transition alone will not suffice.
We need to combine it with "sufficiency" to stay within 2 degrees. This includes labour hour reductions, growth caps in rich countries, less material consumption, and changes in food habits.
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This report uses a ~4.8Ā°C baseline. In May 2026, the U.N. climate panel officially retired this scenario (RCP8.5) as "implausible." Updated projection: ~3.5Ā°C. Sources: NYT & Washington Post, May 2026.
nytimes.com/2026/05/26/cliā¦
washingtonpost.com/climate-enviroā¦
lemonde.fr/en/environmentā¦
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RT @sapinker: "The British Used to Sound Like We (Americans) Did, explains @JohnHMcWhorter: British English at the time of early colonizatiā¦
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āAdding another newborn subsidy would continue Washingtonās habit of solving every problem by creating another program.ā @kevincorinth
āA better approachā¦ is to remove misguided regulations that drive up the costs of raising a family.ā @chellivia
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For much of history, alcohol was not an occasional indulgence. It was woven into daily life.
@chellivia explains that people in the past drank at levels that seem almost impossible by modern standards ā and that even children drank from very young ages.
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RT @JimPethokoukis: "Having treated pancreatic cancer for 16 years, I actually started crying" when first seeing the study results, Dr. Racā¦
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A Year of Deregulation Ignited an American Nuclear Renaissance nationalreview.com/2026/05/aā¦
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May 31
Virginia wants āaffordable childcare.ā But more subsidies without cutting red tape can push prices up, not down. @chellivia argues that childcare is already heavily regulatedāfocus on barriers to entry, not bigger checks.
ow.ly/E18B50Z5LBT
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May 31
This is awesome. Crossing my fingers and hoping that we can eliminate mosquitoes from the US.
May 30
BREAKING: Google is planning to release 32 million mosquitoes across Florida and California.
The company has asked the EPA for permission to proceed, with the public given until June 5 to respond.
The mosquitoes are infected with Wolbachia bacteria, which stops them from reproducing and slowly collapses the wild population from within.
Google's previous Debug Project trial in California's Central Valley nearly eliminated mosquitoes from three test sites entirely. A separate trial in Singapore cut dengue cases by 70% within 12 months.
Google has now released over 1 billion mosquitoes across four continents. This new proposal is the largest deployment in US history.
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