You know the bumper sticker I see a lot of in California? It says “Visualize World Peace.” A takeoff is “Visualize Whirled Peas.”
Well, this one helps you visualize the growth of per capita income and of life expectancy.
HT to Leif.
You know the bumper sticker I see a lot of in California? It says “Visualize World Peace.” A takeoff is “Visualize Whirled Peas.”
Well, this one helps you visualize the growth of per capita income and of life expectancy.
HT to Leif.
Jun 24 2010
My last post on Bruce Bartlett's The New American Economy led, understandably, to a lot of discussion of supply-side economics. I'll deal with that more in future post(s) but meanwhile I'm keeping my promise to post about his last chapter. I thought it was the weakest in the book. His main point in the chapter seems...
Jun 24 2010
Internally at Econlog, GYOB means "get your own blog." It is a term of disparagement used to describe commenters who frequently post comments that are longer than the original post. In the case of Paul Seabright, I am thinking that the blogosphere could benefit from his having a blog. On my Recalculation Story, he c...
Jun 24 2010
You know the bumper sticker I see a lot of in California? It says "Visualize World Peace." A takeoff is "Visualize Whirled Peas." Well, this one helps you visualize the growth of per capita income and of life expectancy. HT to Leif.
READER COMMENTS
MikeP
Jun 24 2010 at 7:56am
The default settings show the log of income. That isn’t very visceral and actually hides the gains. I think you get a better visualization if you punch the “LINEAR” button on the horizontal axis.
Sam
Jun 24 2010 at 11:16am
My favorite bumper sticker on this theme (that I’ve actually seen in Berkeley) is:
Visualize Using Your Turn Signal
John Cunningham
Jun 24 2010 at 11:19am
Amazingly cool graphic! I think it is worthy of Edward Tufte, a genius of graphics.
David R. Henderson
Jun 24 2010 at 12:24pm
MikeP,
Thanks.
Sam,
Good one.
John Cunningham,
I agree. My favorite Tufte is his one showing the effects of Napoleonic conscription combined with a trip to Moscow.
fundamentalist
Jun 24 2010 at 1:13pm
Yes, very cool!
Al Abbott
Jun 24 2010 at 2:39pm
Reminds me of Has Rosling’s TED talk in 2006.
http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_you_ve_ever_seen.html
Mr. Econotarian
Jun 24 2010 at 7:47pm
Has Rosling’s TED talk is great with regards to data. It is terrible with regard to spin. His spin is “poor countries can become richer”, missing the important question of why some poor countries become richer and others remain poor, as if it is just luck, magic, or foreign aid, when the data supports countries becoming richer because of improvements in economic freedom and governance.
That aside, my favorite California bumper sticker is “Visualize using your turn signals!”
William Newman
Jun 25 2010 at 10:38am
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