Cassini latest example of Nasa anthropomorphising their missions, helping to appeal to the public https://t.co/tbREwBHTXn via @MarkMolloy99 pic.twitter.com/J898eZ4Yvd
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The Apollo program wasn’t popular either
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in transport economics Tags: space
Proclamation by the Crown Act 1539
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in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy Tags: constitutional law
The King is Dead: Royal Death and Succession under the Tudors
16 Dec 2017 Leave a comment
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Talk by David Starkey @ Whitley Bay Playhouse 11/05/2016
A couple of months ago I went to hear a talk by David Starkey on the Tudor succession at my local theatre. These are the notes I took on the day:-
Henry VIII by Hans Holbein 1540
Similar to today?
Cromwell similar to David Cameron?
Death of a monarch – die publicly, semi-public, public proclamation.
Every Tudor death of a monarch is kept secret.
Intrigues, political struggles – characteristic over regime with autocratic rulers.
Henry VIII’s death replicates that of Henry VII.
Elizabeth I’s death = change of dynasty. Robert Carey rides to Edinburgh to tell James VI of Scotland he is now James I of England.
One smooth succession – death of Mary I, throne goes to Elizabeth I. Mary believed she was pregnant even on her deathbed.
English relations with Scots not good historically – Elizabeth militarily prepared over…
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New Zealand sexes up the numbers on homelessness
16 Dec 2017 Leave a comment
in politics - New Zealand, poverty and inequality, urban economics
Source: OECD Affordable Housing Database – http://oe.cd/ahd OECD – Social Policy Division – Directorate of Employment, Labour and Social Affairs Last updated on 24/07/2017 HC3.1 HOMELESS POPULATION
Knowing the Who: Identifying the effect of entrepreneurs on firms
16 Dec 2017 Leave a comment
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Do entrepreneurs matter?
Sascha O. Becker (s.o.becker@warwick.ac.uk), CAGE University of Warwick
Hans K. Hvide (hans.hvide@econ.uib.no), University of Bergen, CEPR and University of Aberdeen
Abstract
Within the broad literature on firm performance, economists have given little attention to entrepreneurs. We use deaths of more than 500 entrepreneurs as a source of exogenous variation, and ask whether this variation can explain shifts in firm performance. Using longitudinal data, we find large and sustained effects of entrepreneurs at all levels of the performance distribution. Entrepreneurs strongly affect firm growth patterns of both very young firms and for firms that have begun to mature. We do not find significant differences between small and larger firms, family and non-family firms, nor between firms located in urban and rural areas, but we do find stronger effects for founders with high human capital. Overall, the results suggest that an often overlooked factor individual entrepreneurs plays…
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{Economics ∪ History} ∩ {North ∪ Fogel}
16 Dec 2017 Leave a comment
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A Cliometric Counterfactual: What if There Had Been Neither Fogel nor North?
Claude Diebolt (Strasbourg University) and Michael Haupert (University of Wisconsin – La Crosse)
Abstract – 1993 Nobel laureates Robert Fogel and Douglass North were pioneers in the “new” economic history, or cliometrics. Their impact on the economic history discipline is great, though not without its critics. In this essay, we use both the “old” narrative form of economic history, and the “new” cliometric form, to analyze the impact each had on the evolution of economic history.
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:afc:wpaper:05-17&r=his
Circulated by nep-his on: 2017-02-19
Revised by Thales Zamberlan Pereira (São Paulo)
Douglass North and Robert Fogel’s contribution to the rise of the “new” economic history is well known, but Diebolt and Haupert’s paper adds a quantitative twist to their roles as active supporters of cliometrics when there was still resistance to apply new methods to the study of the past…
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Speaking of modesty feminism
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in discrimination, economics of religion, gender, liberalism, Public Choice Tags: political correctness, Twitter left
The Euro left is rather intolerant
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in politics - USA, population economics Tags: voter demographics
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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