Tweeted By @MaxCRoser

Paul Romer told me it was a chart that got him into studying economics.
He looked at this line and wondered how something like this is possible. Today, decades later, he wins the Nobel Prize for contributing to the answer on how it is possible.

[source https://t.co/RDdsXbMz4j] pic.twitter.com/xmI27hdyZJ

— Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) October 8, 2018