There is media fuss today around the resistance of schools in terms of excluding students excluded from other schools. The NZ Herald highlights statistics that 100s of schools appear to be reluctant and three remain outright resistant. The article highlights the legal obligation for schools to accept students in their zone. This can be ordered […]
The Genuine Legal Conflict for School Boards
The Genuine Legal Conflict for School Boards
18 Jul 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice Tags: crime and punishment, law and order
Good list
16 Jul 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of education Tags: conjecture and refutation, philosophy of science
Universities and the Treaty
15 Jul 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice Tags: Age of Enlightenment, conjecture and refutation, free speech, philosophy of science, political correctness, regressive left
Grant Duncan writes: University management should take note of that, as there have been unrealistic efforts to force poorly defined “Treaty obligations” into teaching and research. For example, one university is now telling its academic staff that all curricula should, as a high priority, be “designed, developed and delivered in authentic partnerships with Māori [and] […]
Universities and the Treaty
Discovery of 2-million-year-old DNA in Greenland reveals new details about ancient life
15 Jul 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of education, environmental economics, global warming Tags: Greenland
.PBS NewsHour Here is the transcript JUDY WOODRUFF: Scientists working in Greenland have identified the oldest samples of DNA ever found on Earth. By analyzing this two-million-year-old genetic material, they have revealed how Northern Greenland was once a wildly different environment than the cold polar region it is today, one teeming with ancient wildlife and […]
Discovery of 2-million-year-old DNA in Greenland reveals new details about ancient life
In Science, fifteen New Zealand researchers criticize the initiative to teach indigenous “ways of knowing” as science
13 Jul 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of education, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: Age of Enlightenment, conjecture and refutation, free speech, philosophy of science, political correctness, regressive left
Two letters have just been published in Science signed by a total of 15 scientists, all criticizing the first article below (published in Science last February), a piece arguing for teaching indigenous knowledge (including N.Z.’s version, Mātauranga Māori) alongside science in the science classroom. (Click to read.) Now the authors, after being criticized, denied that […]
In Science, fifteen New Zealand researchers criticize the initiative to teach indigenous “ways of knowing” as science
Meet the next Green MP
10 Jul 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of education, Marxist economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: cranks, free speech, political correctness, regressive left
The next Green MP in on the List is Benjamin Doyle. This is his MA thesis: Here is a Master’s thesis crafted with, by, and for Rangatahi Takatāpui. It represents a labour of love for the community to which I belong, and seeks to generate understanding about the factors that enable LGBTQI+ Māori youth to […]
Meet the next Green MP
Trump’s Backdoor to Open Borders
30 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of education, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, politics - USA Tags: 2024 presidential election, economics of immigration
Donald Trump recently endorsed a glorious-on-net immigration proposal: giving a green card to every foreigner who graduates from a U.S. university. I was stunned when I read the fine print: Let me just tell you that it’s so sad when we lose people from Harvard, MIT, from the greater schools and lesser schools that are…
Trump’s Backdoor to Open Borders
The Evolving Economic Role of Women: Goldin’s Nobel Lecture
29 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economic history, economics of education, gender, history of economic thought, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality Tags: gender wage gap, sex discrimination
Claudia Goldin’s Nobel prize lecture, “An Evolving Economic Force,” has now been published in the June 2024 issue of the American Economic Review. Or if you prefer, you can watch the watch the lecture (with more numerous slides!) from the link at the Nobel website. She writes: Women are now at the center of the…
The Evolving Economic Role of Women: Goldin’s Nobel Lecture
Good list
29 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of education Tags: conjecture and refutation, philosophy of science
Teachers Union Issues List Of Climate Demands As Students Struggle To Read At Grade Level
22 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of education, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate activists
The CTU will push the city to include initiatives like electric school buses, green jobs training programs for students and reducing emissions from buildings with solar panels and other retrofits, among other initiatives,
Teachers Union Issues List Of Climate Demands As Students Struggle To Read At Grade Level
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
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
Alien pronouns
12 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of education, economics of media and culture, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: Age of Enlightenment, free speech, political correctness, regressive left
What Evolution Reveals About Human Behavior
11 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of education, economics of media and culture, health economics, population economics Tags: cognitive psychology, evolutionary biology, evolutionary psychology
More impatient people are more likely to commit crime
09 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, econometerics, economics of crime, economics of education, labour economics, law and economics, occupational choice Tags: cognitive psychology, crime and punishment, criminal deterrence, law and order
Gary Becker’s famous model of rational crime suggests that criminals weigh up the costs and benefits of crime (and engage in a criminal act if the benefits outweigh the costs). Time preferences matter in this model, because the benefits of a criminal act are usually realised immediately, whereas the greatest costs (including the penalties of…
More impatient people are more likely to commit crime
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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