David D Freidman – NYC – Global Warming and Other Good Things in Our Future
17 Jul 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, David Friedman, environmental economics, global warming
Frank Abagnale: “Catch Me If You Can” | Talks at Google
17 Jul 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, economics of information, entrepreneurship, law and economics, movies
Stopping the boats saved many lives @sarahinthesen8
17 Jul 2018 Leave a comment
in Economics of international refugee law, International law, politics - Australia
Frank Abagnale on Posing as an Airline Pilot
16 Jul 2018 Leave a comment
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Teenagers and family picnic ground as human shields @amnestynz silent on Hamas war crimes
15 Jul 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, International law, law and economics, laws of war, war and peace Tags: Gaza Strip, Hamas, war crimes
#OTD Shabbat of Hamas Rocket fire
15 Jul 2018 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of crime, International law, law and economics Tags: Gaza Strip, Hamas, Israel
PETA gets destroyed in an interview
15 Jul 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, health economics, law and economics Tags: animal liberation
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
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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
Matthew Kahn on the mixed messages of mayors to the bond markets and the courts
14 Jul 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, energy economics, environmental economics, financial economics, global warming, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: climate alarmism, securities fraud
Why PETA Is A Nest Of Lies (And Very Litigious About It) // CRACKED RE-UPLOAD
14 Jul 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, health economics, law and economics Tags: animal liberation
Robert Bork: Supreme Court Nomination Hearings
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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
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