Yet another gender gap
15 Jul 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics
Fist fights broke out in the sociology department hosting this PhD over the ethics of the field research (wanted to avoid response bias)
14 Jul 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, economics of education
From https://minerva.leeds.ac.uk/bbcswebdav/orgs/INTF00001/page%201_07.htm and
There were also social costs. The research occurred in the middle 1960s before institutional review boards were in existence. The dissertation proposal was reviewed only by Humphreys’ Ph.D. committee. Only after the research had been completed did the other members of the Sociology Department learn of it. A furor arose when some of those other members of the department objected that Humphreys’ research had unethically invaded the privacy and threatened the social standing of the subjects, and petitioned the president of Washington University to rescind Humphreys’ Ph.D. degree. The turmoil resulted in numerous other unfortunate events, including a fist fight among faculty members and the exodus of about half of the department members to positions at other universities.
There was considerable public outrage as well. Journalist Nicholas von Hoffman, who was given some details of the case by one of the angered members of the Sociology Department, wrote an article about Humphreys’ research and offered the following condemnation of social scientists: “We’re so preoccupied with defending our privacy against insurance investigators, dope sleuths, counterespionage men, divorce detectives and credit checkers, that we overlook the social scientists behind the hunting blinds who’re also peeping into what we thought were our most private and secret lives. But there they are, studying us, taking notes, getting to know us, as indifferent as everybody else to the feeling that to be a complete human involves having an aspect of ourselves that’s unknown.” (von Hoffman, 1970).
From http://www.drjkoch.org/Intro/Readings/Humphreys.htm
Robert Bork, Brown v. Board of Education (1954), and the radicalism of the original intent of equal protection before the law (via George Will)
12 Jul 2018 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, discrimination, economics of education, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: constitutional law, racial discrimination, Robert Bork
Thomas Sowell – Congressional Testimony on Robert Bork
12 Jul 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, economic history, economics of education, labour economics, law and economics, politics - USA, property rights Tags: constitutional law, racial discrimination, Thomas Sowell
Thomas Sowell and a Conflict of Visions
12 Jul 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, development economics, economic history, economics of education, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, history of economic thought Tags: Thomas Sowell
Why incompetent people think they’re amazing – David Dunning
11 Jul 2018 1 Comment
in economics of education Tags: cognitive psychology
Christina Hoff Sommers v. Feminist on Trigger Warnings and Safe Spaces”
05 Jul 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of education Tags: political correctness
Hilarious story of Oberlin students TRIGGERED by Christina Hoff Sommers
03 Jul 2018 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender Tags: political correctness, regressive left
Modern empirical labour economics found men too boring to study. They join workforce after school, retire at 65 then drop dead not long after!
01 Jul 2018 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: Claudia Goldin
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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