What to read on inequality?
A friend asked me: “Which book on inequality should I read? – And I won’t read more than one”. I try to answer: If you don’t want to read much – he said one book – I think it is even easier than...
View ArticleFunding request for Our World In Data
Funding for OurWorldInData will end soon. This is my plan to make it more useful and comprehensive in the future. A free web publication that aims to brings academic research on human development to...
View ArticleWhat I will do in the next years
My aim is to present an empirical view of the living conditions around the world and how and why they are changing. Are more people killed in wars today? Are famines increasing or are fewer people...
View ArticleOurWorldInData in 2016
It is great to see OurWorldInData growing! More aspects of how life on earth is changing are discussed and visualised and the technical framework of OurWorldInData.org is becoming much more powerful....
View ArticleDon’t be fooled; the evidence does not suggest that democracy is bad for growth.
Trump is obsessed with comparisons of the US with China. In the last debate he said: “China is growing at 7 percent. And that for them is a catastrophically low number. We are growing — our last...
View ArticleItalian coal miners working in Belgium
The source of this image and the background story is here (in Italian). Average working hours in Belgium back then were 64 per week.
View ArticleA website in a modular structure?
I’m part of the team that is building the web publication Our World In Data that presents the empirical evidence on global development. We present this evidence topic by topic – war, democracy, child...
View ArticleWhat I’ve been up to during the last year
I haven’t written much on this blog recently and so I thought it might make sense to just list – and link to – a couple of the projects that I’ve been working on during the last year. This way there...
View ArticleMy writing is on Our World in Data
Instead of publishing posts here I now publish all my writings on the open-access publication OurWorldInData.org.
View ArticleDebate: Has the world improved in the last 60 years?
At the Oxford Martin School I debated with Anders Sandberg from Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute and Robert Walker from the University’s Social Policy department whether we achieved to build a...
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