Friday, December 28, 2012

The impact of economic freedom on average life expectancy

Live free or die, literally - pretty self explanatory (RCM):

The impact of economic freedom on average life expectancy is the most striking aspect of the data shown in the [below] Table. More specifically, the average life expectancy is over 80 years in all seven economically free countries (Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland, Canada, and Ireland). Unfortunately, there are over 70 countries that are mostly unfree or repressed which represent almost 5 billion people with shorter life spans: in none of these individual countries is the average life expectancy over 80.

Sunday, December 09, 2012

'Tis the Season...

Heh. (h/t Greg Mankiw)