Will @jeremycorbyn’s 4-day work week end 5-day test matches? Olympics? Wimbledon? Professional sport?
25 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, labour economics, labour supply, Marxist economics, Public Choice, sports economics Tags: British politics, offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
State of the Climate Debate: Patrick Michaels and Judith Curry
25 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of education, economics of information, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmists
UC Davis math professor demonized for criticizing required “diversity” statements for academic jobs
25 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
Abigail Thompson is a well known professor (and department Chair) of mathematics at the University of California at Davis, specializing in topology. Six years ago she became an inaugural fellow of the American Mathematical Society (AMS), and now she’s a vice president.
But in the December issue of the Notices of the American Mathematical Society, she set herself up for public pillorying by publishing an essay criticizing the mandatory diversity statements that must accompany applications for academic jobs at some colleges and universities, including hers. You can read her short essay by clicking on the screenshot below:
Dr. Thompson is certainly not against increased diversity in math departments or colleges in general, nor against efforts to increase diversity. She just doesn’t think that “diversity statements” are the way to do it:
Mathematics has made progress over the past decades towards becoming a more welcoming, inclusive discipline. We should continue…
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John Cleese: Political Correctness Can Lead to an Orwellian Nightmare
25 Nov 2019 1 Comment
in economics of information, economics of media and culture, law and economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: free speech, political correctness, regressive left
Tech Revolutions That Might Happen and Their Consequences | David Friedman
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in David Friedman, law and economics
Cracks in the Soviet-Nazi Alliance – WW2 – 065 – November 23, 1940
25 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War II
Bill Gates Slams Unreliable Wind & Solar: ‘Let’s Quit Jerking Around With Renewables & Batteries’
24 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
Bill says it’s time to stop jerking around with wind & solar.
When the world’s richest entrepreneur says wind and solar will never work, it’s probably time to listen.
Bill Gates made a fortune applying common sense to the untapped market of home computing. The meme has it that IBM’s CEO believed there was only a market for five computers in the entire world. Gates thought otherwise. Building a better system than any of his rivals and shrewdly working the marketplace, resulted in hundreds of millions hooked on PCs, Windows and Office. This is a man that knows a thing or two about systems and a lot about what it takes to satisfy the market.
For almost a century, electricity generation and distribution were treated as a tightly integrated system: it was designed and built as one, and is meant to operate as designed. However, the chaotic delivery of wind…
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POISONER IN CHIEF: SIDNEY GOTTLIEB AND THE CIA SEARCH FOR MIND CONTROL by Stephen Kinzer
24 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
(Sidney Gottlieb, circa 1977)
Stephen Kinzer’s latest book, POISONER IN CHIEF: SIDNEY GOTTLIEB AND THE CIA SEARCH FOR MIND CONTROL is a very troubling and disconcerting book. The fact that the United States government sanctioned a program designed to conduct what the author terms, “brain warfare” highlights a policy that allowed for torture, the use of chemicals to develop control of people’s thoughts, murder, and the disintegration of people and their quality of life making one want to question what these bureaucrats, the military, and the intelligence community as well as the president were thinking. Those who are familiar with Kinzer’s previous works, THE BROTHERS, a duel biography of the John Foster and Allen W. Dulles; ALL THE SHAH’S MEN, which describes the errors of American policy toward Iran and the overthrow of the Shah; BITTER FRUIT, an analysis of the CIA coup in Guatemala in 1954; OVERTHROW
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@jeremycorbyn was a useful idiot for apartheid too
24 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economic history, income redistribution, labour economics, law and economics, Marxist economics, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: apartheid, British politics, racial discrimination, South Africa
Gang members motivated by small chance of future riches, not immediate gain @sst_nz @JustSpeakNZ @NZJusticeIdeas @actionstation
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in applied price theory, econometerics, economics of crime, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, Marxist economics, minimum wage, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, unemployment Tags: crime and punishment, criminal deterrence, law and order
The curse of the woke
24 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, movies, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, television Tags: political correctness
Economics v. Sociology
24 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in economics, economics of education Tags: academic bias
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