Edward prescott on the coming and goings of reserve banks and monetary policy
08 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in business cycles, econometerics, economic history, Edward Prescott, macroeconomics, monetary economics Tags: monetary policy
Another gender gap that dare not speak its name
08 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of love and marriage, gender, health economics Tags: marriage and divorce
Mexico in WW1 – The Mexican Revolution I THE GREAT WAR Special
08 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, development economics, growth disasters, war and peace Tags: Mexico, World War I
Thomas Sowell on the Origins of Economic Disparities
08 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economic history, economics of education, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Thomas Sowell Tags: racial discrimination
Let’s double everyone’s wage. What could go wrong?
08 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economics of regulation, industrial organisation, labour economics, minimum wage, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, survivor principle, unemployment Tags: The fatal conceit
Caldwell on Hayek and the high school libertarians
08 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in F.A. Hayek, liberalism, libertarianism, Public Choice Tags: The fatal conceit
James Robinson: “Why Nations Fail” | Talks at Google
08 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, development economics, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, macroeconomics, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: autocracy
Many changes
07 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: Germany
Cleanness over godliness
07 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of religion, politics - USA Tags: echo chambers, political correctness
Special Report on Sea Level Rise
07 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
by Judith Curry
I have now completed my assessment of sea level rise and climate change.
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Will BBC audiences be told this Gaza healthcare story?
07 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
Readers may recall that in early June listeners to BBC domestic radio’s news and current affairs station, Radio 4, were told by a presenter of the ‘Today’ show that:
“The fact remains that healthcare restrictions are being used [by Israel] to dehumanise the Palestinian people…”
BBC R4’s ‘Today’ listeners get a distorted view of medical permits – part one
BBC R4’s ‘Today’ listeners get distorted view of medical permits – part two
The BBC of course has a history of ignoring stories which explain the need for security checks before permits are given to residents of the Gaza Strip to travel to or through Israel for the purpose of medical treatment.
At the end of June the Israeli news website Ynet reported (Hebrew) that:
“This morning the surveying stage begins for the construction of a big international field hospital on an area of 40 dunams with 16 different departments near the Erez Crossing, which will be run…
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Can behavioural economists explain why incentives work in an asylum for the criminally insane
07 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, behavioural economics, comparative institutional analysis, experimental economics, health economics, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: economics of mental illness, token economies
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