Thomas Sargent on rational expectations and the effect of taxes
08 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of information, fiscal policy, macroeconomics, Public Choice, public economics Tags: rational expectations, taxation and entrepreneurship, taxation and investment
A woke left guide to Islam
08 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of religion Tags: political correctness, regressive left
Would these tech giants ever have become superstars if their founders had to sell down their controlling interests years ago to pay their wealth taxes
08 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, entrepreneurship, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, survivor principle Tags: envy, superstar wages, superstars, top 1%
The woke left are useful idiots for fascism
08 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of religion Tags: political correctness
Wind Industry Crisis Spreads: German & Australian Environmentalists Turn Against Pointless & Destructive Wind Power
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The inevitable backlash against wind power started in Germany and it’s spreading, fast. The fact that chaotically intermittent wind power can’t be delivered as and when power consumers need it means the wanton destruction of pristine wilderness, bucolic landscapes, rural communities, and millions of birds and bats (including plenty of species on the brink of extinction) is pretty hard to justify.
Even the most delusional eco-zealots are struggling. And, apparently, cognitive dissonance has lost its ability to overcome their niggling internal doubts.
In Australia, Dr Bob Brown, former leader of the Australian Greens, was one of the first to break ranks when a few of these things were threatened for the remote North-West of his home State, Tasmania: Hyper-Hypocrites: Greens Love Wind Power – In Your Backyard – But Never In Theirs
In Germany, real environmentalists are mounting a well-oiled revolt against the destruction of forests – the natural habitat of…
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P. T. Bauer on the ravages of colonialism
08 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic history, Public Choice
Acemoglu and Robinson do their best at blaming colonialism for Africa’s woes. Made the terrible preexisting institutions worse?
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in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, growth disasters, income redistribution, law and economics, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: Age of Discovery, age of empires, British empire, economics of colonialism
Is there a social cost to prematurely or erroneously denouncing a political opponent as a racist?
08 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, economics of information, economics of media and culture, labour economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Thomas Sowell Tags: racial discrimination, regressive left
Ignorance is strength for the woke left
08 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of education, 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
Male privilege includes more minority women going to college than white men
08 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics, occupational choice Tags: racial discrimination, reversing gender gap, sex discrimination
Bari Weiss discusses her new book and anti-Semitism
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Bari Weiss is a New York Times columnist who, like me, is a Trump-hating Leftist who criticizes the Left. The result, of course, is that she’s been demonized by the Left, and by many writers at her own paper. Her generally pro-Israel views don’t help, either. Weiss’s new book, How to Fight Anti-Semitism will be out September 10. In this 75-minute discussion with political journalist Michael Barbaro, Weiss not only discusses her book, but anti-Semitism in general.
Among the topics Weiss covers are why Jews should oppose Trump and the Republican party, why BDS (and “anti-Zionism”) is anti-Semitic, why Jews are considered “white” and Palestinians are not, why anti-Jewish hate crimes don’t make the news, how and why anti-Semitism manifests itself on the Left, and why the UN repeatedly condemns Israel a gazillion times more often than it condemns far worse regimes. She’ll let you know why she says, “Anyone…
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Desparate and dateless on campus
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in applied price theory, economics of education, economics of love and marriage, law and economics Tags: dating market
Sargent is a bit cross with the Romer and Romer narrative of post-war stabilisation
08 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, economic growth, economic history, history of economic thought, macroeconomics, monetary economics
From Commentary: The Evolution of Economic Understanding and Postwar Stabilization Policy at
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.203.4565&rep=rep1&type=pdf
Richard Allen Posner on crisis in capitalism
08 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, comparative institutional analysis, economic growth, economic history, economics of information, Euro crisis, financial economics, global financial crisis (GFC), great recession, industrial organisation, law and economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics, Richard Posner Tags: bank panics
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