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Fruits and vegetables, wild vs. domesticated
12 Mar 2016 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of information, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, environmental economics, health economics Tags: agricultural economics, antiscience left, food snobs, GMOs, organic food
@UKIP supporters are slightly to the left of @LibDems supporters
12 Mar 2016 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, Public Choice
Data generated by 17,281 England-only users of the WhoGetsMyVoteUK application. Before to the 2015 general election, users expressed their opinions on thirty policy statements including taxation, welfare, the EU and immigration. Their answers were matched with the party or parties that best corresponded with those views.
Where UKIP supporters distinguish themselves from other parties is on the cultural dimension. They are, to use David Goodhart’s phrase, far more “communitarian” (i.e. anti-immigration, anti-EU, localist, anti gay marriage and English nationalist) than “cosmopolitan” Green, Labour and Liberal Democrat supporters, while Conservative supporters occupy a “middle-of-the-road” position on the cultural scale.
This conforms well to Ford and Goodwin’s characterisation of UKIP as older blue-collar workers who feel threatened by social change and cling to past certainties. In this respect, UKIP is similar to other right-wing populist parties in Europe that draw their support from globalisation’s “losers”…
Live from the moon in @BernieSanders good old days
12 Mar 2016 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of media and culture, politics - USA
Joan Rivers on political correctness and pioneering female comedians
11 Mar 2016 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, liberalism Tags: Joan Rivers, political correctness
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@BernieSanders and @realdonaldtrump trade in fear and blame
08 Mar 2016 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, politics - USA, Public Choice, television
This @amprog lead in picture and its 1st figure about minimal improvement in living standards in 30 years just does not gel somehow
05 Mar 2016 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, economic history, economics of media and culture, industrial organisation, politics - USA Tags: good old days, Leftover Left, pessimism bias, rational irrationality, smart phones, The Great Enrichment
Source: When I Was Your Age | Center for American Progress.
The claim by the Centre for American progress is that despite being more educated and working in a more productive economy, 30-year-olds today barely make more than 30-year-old Baby Boomers did in 1984.
Source: When I Was Your Age | Center for American Progress.
Nearly everything from RadioShack ad in 1991 is replaced by a smartphone. https://t.co/xGh6ZzW1Nx—
Vala Afshar (@ValaAfshar) December 19, 2015
The apps in your smartphone cost $900,000 thirty years ago —@datarade https://t.co/pjw7q4QGDp—
Vala Afshar (@ValaAfshar) October 29, 2015
Creative destruction in desks
05 Mar 2016 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics, economics of media and culture Tags: creative destruction
@realdonaldtrump has never voted in a Republican primary
04 Mar 2016 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, politics - USA
Trump has voted consistently in general elections. There is no indication that he has voted in a presidential primary of any kind since 1989.
Source: Donald Trump, Melania & Ivanka have never voted in a GOP presidential primary | Daily Mail Online.
Donald Trump first registered to vote at Trump Tower in 1987. Since then, he has been a Republican three times, a Democrat once, a member of the Independence Party once and, for a brief period, had no party identification at all.
Since he registered to vote for the Republican Party just before the 2012 election, he hasn’t missed a vote. He registered too late to vote for Mitt Romney.
Trump spent the entire Bush years as a registered Democrat.
Source: Donald Trump’s got a particularly strange voting history – The Washington Post.
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