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in economics of education, Karl Popper, liberalism Tags: conjecture and refutation, philosophy of science

Understanding Gender Economics
11 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: gender wage gap, sex discrimination

I’ve written several times about the issue of the gender pay gap, mostly to point out that our friends on the left are wrong when they assert that there is pervasive and significant sex discrimination in wage levels. When debating this issue, the first thing I ask people is whether businesses want to maximize profits. […]
Understanding Gender Economics
JOHN RAINE, DAVID LILLIS and PETER SCHWERDTFEGER: Universities or Indoctrination Centres?
11 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in economics of education, liberalism, Marxist economics
The assertion that all human knowledge is equally valid and the university is a site of power contestation makes it easier to understand the abandonment of fundamental academic principles, not least that of academic freedom (Doug Stokes in “Against Decolonisation” pp. 83-84). Becoming Ethno-institutions? As New Zealand Universities move further towards becoming ethno-institutions we state…
JOHN RAINE, DAVID LILLIS and PETER SCHWERDTFEGER: Universities or Indoctrination Centres?
More Popper
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in economics of education, Karl Popper Tags: conjecture and refutation, philosophy of science

Science
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in economics of education Tags: conjecture and refutation, philosophy of science

Science is
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in economics of education, economics of media and culture Tags: conjecture and refutation, Internet, philosophy of science

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Neil Armstong on faking the moon landing
21 May 2023 Leave a comment
in economics of education, economics of media and culture
Bob Lucas on Growth, Poverty and Business Cycles 2/5/2007
19 May 2023 Leave a comment
in business cycles, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economic history, economics of education, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, human capital, labour economics, law and economics, macroeconomics, Milton Friedman, monetarism, monetary economics, Robert E. Lucas, unemployment Tags: monetary policy
I Made Contact With Lost Amazon Tribe by Speaking Their language
18 May 2023 Leave a comment
in economics of education, economics of media and culture Tags: economics of languages





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