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How big is the sexism problem in economics? This article’s co-author is anonymous because of it
07 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, human capital, labour economics, occupational choice, politics - USA Tags: gender wage gap, reversing gender dao
Why is it assumed that economics is the best available choice for women with mathematical skill?
Just as many men as women qualify for engineering and science but more of these same women also qualify for law and medicine.
Why enroll in engineering, science or economics if you have qualified for law or medicine?
No NZ government bailout for the Sky City Casino extension cost overrun
07 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: corporate welfare, Sky City Casino
Students analyse mental health of Seinfeld characters
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in economics of education, economics of media and culture, TV shows Tags: Seinfeld
“You have a very diverse group of personality traits that are maladaptive on the individual level,” Tobia told nj.com. “When you get these friends together the dynamic is such that it literally creates a plot: Jerry’s obsessive compulsive traits combined with Kramer’s schizoid traits, with Elaine’s inability to forge meaningful relationships and with George being egocentric.”
Seinfeld’s “neat freak” tendencies are well known. The show’s chief protagonist once refused to a kiss a girl who’d brushed her teeth with a toothbrush that had fallen in the toilet. On another occasion he threw out a belt after it touched a urinal.
Meanwhile, Jerry’s nemesis, the vindictive Newman, is “very sick” according to Tobia.
“Newman’s sense of self, his meaning in life, is to ensure that he frustrates Jerry,
via Students analyse mental health of Seinfeld characters | Stuff.co.nz.
The $245,000 price tag for raising an American child – Vox
07 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, economics of love and marriage, economics of media and culture, labour economics, politics - USA Tags: cost of chidlren, fertility
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Which are the most satisfying occupations?
07 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in occupational choice Tags: compensating differentials
Top Five Climate Essays of 2014
07 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in economics
Here is a list of what I am calling my top 5 climate essays of 2014. No doubt there are others that deserve mentioning, but these are the ones that come to mind this morning. These essays are chosen because the stand out to me in some way, which I describe below. All are focused in some way or another on the climate policy debate as it occurs in the public sphere. Were I to pick essays or papers on various aspects of climate science I’d have a different list. In the comments, I welcome suggestions for other essays of 2014 worth reading and remembering.
5. Dan Sarewitz, It’s the End of the World as We Prefer it and I Feel … Stupid.
In his characteristic style, ASU’s Dan Sarewitz explains that the debate on climate change has become intolerant and narrow. Climate change is important, but so too…
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For home appliances, the ‘good old days’ are now: they’re cheaper, better and more energy efficient than ever before » AEI
07 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in energy economics, entrepreneurship Tags: directed technical change
Central planning versus spontaneous order: bicycle version
07 Jan 2015 1 Comment
in comparative institutional analysis, economics, economics of regulation, liberalism, Marxist economics
via Neil Wilson and https://twitter.com/juliawolfe/status/551580469910073345?s=09
How Liberalism Was Launched
07 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in economics
In a review of Edmund Fawcett’s Liberalism: The Life of an Idea, Katrina Forrester takes stock of his revisionist account of how the approach to politics began:
For Fawcett, liberalism is, at its simplest, about “improving people’s lives while treating them alike and shielding them from undue power.” To understand its history, “liberty is the wrong place to begin.”
Liberalism wasn’t created in the seventeenth century but in the nineteenth, after a trio of revolutions—American, French and industrial—shattered the old order. Liberalism’s first job wasn’t simply to defend private individuals and limit the size of government, but to cope with the rise of capitalism and mass democracy amid the aftershocks of a postrevolutionary world. In Fawcett’s history, there’s nothing on Locke, little on toleration, and America isn’t seen as special. The focus instead is on social conflict, political economy and capitalism, and the story Fawcett tells clears away the distortions produced…
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