Vaccines work and are safe.
27 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, health economics Tags: polio, vaccines

Von Hippel on how we know when humans started wearing clothes
27 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: evolutionary psychology

Steven Pinker – The Genius of Charles Darwin
25 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: evolutionary psychology
What Hygiene Was Like For Medieval Peasants @NoahOpinion
22 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, health economics Tags: The Great Escape
Attention anti-science left @NZGreens (but not @Greens, who praised vaccines as the greatest public health intervention ever)
21 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of information, health economics, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: anti-vaccination movement, vaccines

Nanny state to take note
20 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, health economics Tags: economics of smoking

Shame on @greenpeace
20 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, economics of information, environmental economics, growth disasters, health economics Tags: regressive left, The Great Escape

On the ethics of the randomisters
20 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, development economics, econometerics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, health economics, Public Choice Tags: The fatal conceit
Economic Reasoning Applied to Sociology – Becker and Posner
17 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, Gary Becker, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics, law and economics, Public Choice, Richard Posner Tags: economics of AIDS
Stossel: The Science Around Male Brains vs. Female Brains
17 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, economics of love and marriage, gender, health and safety, health economics, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: evolutionary psychology
Angus Deaton Understanding and misunderstanding randomized controlled trials
16 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, econometerics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of information, growth disasters, health economics, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, organisational economics, personnel economics, Public Choice, public economics, theory of the firm Tags: offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, The pretence to knowledge, unintended consequences
Deirdre McCloskey on why liberalism works
16 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, law and economics, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, Rawls and Nozick, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: The Great Enrichment


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