Why Does SpaceX Use 33 Engines While NASA Used Just 5?
20 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture Tags: space
Another gender gap
19 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply Tags: gender gap, gender wage gap, sex discrimination
Extraordinary Labor Market Developments and the 2022-23 Disinflation
19 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, labour economics, labour supply, market efficiency, occupational choice, personnel economics Tags: working from home
From a new NBER working paper by Steven J. Davis: Two extraordinary U.S. labor market developments facilitated the sharp disinflation in 2022-23 without raising the unemployment rate. First, pandemic-driven infection worries and social distancing intentions caused a sizable drag on labor force participation that began to reverse in the first quarter of 2022, and perhaps […]
Extraordinary Labor Market Developments and the 2022-23 Disinflation
Does visiting South Africa make you more right-wing or more left-wing?
19 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth disasters Tags: South Africa
Perhaps “both” is the correct answer? The right-wing tendencies are easiest to explain. South Africa is obviously much wealthier than the rest of sub-Saharan Africa, and of course Westerners play a larger role in its history and also in its present. You can put different glosses on that, but a variety of those paths lead […]
Does visiting South Africa make you more right-wing or more left-wing?
Inconvenient truths for eco-zealots
19 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, politics - New Zealand Tags: climate alarmism
Radical environmentalists have had far too loud a voice, and put far too much effort into attempting to put the environmental cart in front of the research, science and technological horses with no regard for the economic and social costs. At last someone is reminding them of some inconvenient truths: For environmentalists to have the […]
Inconvenient truths for eco-zealots
The renewable green energy disaster off the northeastern US is getting worse
19 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - USA Tags: wind power
By Paul Homewood h/t Paul Kolk A slow-motion collapse in the offshore wind industry continues to grow as sticky inflation and supply chain challenges force developers to delay or cancel major projects. In particular, progress towards the Biden administration’s goal of building large amounts of floating wind off the northeastern US coast […]
The renewable green energy disaster off the northeastern US is getting worse
About right
19 Jun 2024 1 Comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, transport economics Tags: electric cars
Germany’s Manufacturing Industry Destroyed By Wind & Solar Obsession
18 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: Germany
There’s no better example of how heavily subsidised wind and solar will wreck an economy than Germany. Over the last 20 years, the Germans have destroyed their once reliable and affordable power supplies and ‘replaced’ it with chaotically intermittent wind and solar; but without coal-fired power from Poland and nuclear power from France, Germans would […]
Germany’s Manufacturing Industry Destroyed By Wind & Solar Obsession
Climate Alarmism is the existential threat to humanity
18 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming Tags: climate activists, climate alarmism
Unless and until there is a general consensus that climate alarmism is the problem and that the misguided policies supported by climate alarmists are outright rejected by an overwhelming majority, climate alarmism will remain a grave threat to the future of humanity.
Climate Alarmism is the existential threat to humanity
Twelve Reasons Why I Don’t Believe There’s a Climate Emergency
18 Jun 2024 1 Comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmism
As an amateur psychologist, I know that humans are susceptible to manias. I also know that humans tend to focus on tiny slivers of time and on tiny slivers of geographical place when forming ideas and opinions. We are also extremely malleable and easily fooled, as was demonstrated in 2020 and 2021
Twelve Reasons Why I Don’t Believe There’s a Climate Emergency
College premium
18 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of education, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, unemployment Tags: graduate premium
Nigel Farage on Net Zero: “The Whole Thing is about Charging Us More Money”
18 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: British politics
Farage leads Reform UK, a party which recently pulled ahead of the governing Conservatives in the polls, and stands a real chance of becoming the second largest party in the next British parliament.
Nigel Farage on Net Zero: “The Whole Thing is about Charging Us More Money”
The Corruption of Merrick Garland
17 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: 2024 presidential election
Below is my column in The Hill on the concerning record of Attorney General Merrick Garland on a variety of recent matters, including a frivolous privilege claim to withhold the audiotape of President Joe Biden during the Hur interview. There is a certain corruption of judgment that is evident from this and other decisions by […]
The Corruption of Merrick Garland
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