Rand Paul: End America’s War’s
30 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of bureaucracy, International law, politics - USA, Public Choice, war and peace Tags: Iraq war, Syrian Civil War, war against terror, War in Afghanistan
conservatives in the academy: it’s not discrimination, it’s selection – for 103rd time
29 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
Many conservative critics of the academy believe that liberals dominate because of anti-conservative discrimination. While there are likely some cases of that, the evidence was always weak for discrimination as a general explanation. For example, liberals dominate in fields that are not political, like math. In technical fields, people are recruited from all over the world. I’d be surprised if the engineering professor knew the politics of the new guy from Kazakhstan, unless he made a big deal out of it.
My view, as I’ve stated before on this blog, is simply that there’s a massive self-selection process at work. Being conservative is probably correlated with certain attitudes toward work, such a desire for high compensation, that are hard to satisfy in the academy. There are also field specific self-selection effects. Sociology for example, studies all kinds of deviant behavior and the faculty tend to skew liberal, not the sort…
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when do people tell the truth?
29 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
Robert Rivers is written about the evolutionary survival value of guilt and honesty.
From a recent article in Econometricaby Johanes Abeler, Daniel Nosenzo, and Collin Raymond:
Private information is at the heart of many economic activities. For decades, economists have assumed that individuals are willing to misreport private information if this maximizes their material payoff. We combine data from 90 experimental studies in economics, psychology, and sociology, and show that, in fact, people lie surprisingly little. We then formalize a wide range of potential explanations for the observed behavior, identify testable predictions that can distinguish between the models, and conduct new experiments to do so. Our empirical evidence suggests that a preference for being seen as honest and a preference for being honest are the main motivations for truth‐telling.
Comment: Remember when Adam Smith wrote in Theory of Moral Sentiments that people want to be loved and lovely? Well, there you go. The broader point is that in an industrialized…
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BDS is failing – the never-ending story (October 2019)
29 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
Here’s the latest installment in our ongoing series of posts documenting BDS fails.
Political:
German parliament condemns ‘anti-Semitic’ BDS movement
The German Bundestag has passed a resolution describing the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions campaign against Israel as anti-Semitic. Parliamentarians said some BDS slogans recalled Nazi propaganda.
A cross-party alliance in the German parliament on Friday passed a resolution condemning the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) campaign, and cutting off funding to any organizations that “actively support” the BDS movement.
Anti-Israel BDS founder denied entry to UK
Prominent Palestinian activist and co-founder of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, Omar Barghouti, has been denied a visa to enter the UK, the Palestine Solidarity Campaign
In a statement issued on the PSC website on Friday, it was said that “Barghouti is unable to travel to the UK because his visa was abnormally delayed by the British Government without explanation.”
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Another gender gap
29 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: occupational segregation
Greenland to USA, Australia to war, and French Colonies to…? – WW2 – OOTF 004
28 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War II
How the Ottoman Empire was Carved Up
28 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, energy economics, International law, war and peace Tags: World War I
P.T. Bauer (1959) on the Permit Raj at its most bizarre and cruel
28 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, economics of regulation, growth disasters, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, Milton Friedman, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, Public Choice Tags: India
The off the book incomes of beneficiaries – from Making Ends Meet: How Single Mothers Survive Welfare and Low-Wage by Kathryn Edin and Laura Lein
28 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, economics of love and marriage, gender, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, poverty and inequality, welfare reform Tags: child poverty, family poverty, social insurance, welfare fraud
Are business cycles costly?
28 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, business cycles, economic growth, economic history, Edward Prescott, macroeconomics, monetary economics, Robert E. Lucas Tags: real business cycles
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