Ideas and Growth Lecture with Nobel Laureate Robert E. Lucas Jr
06 May 2019 Leave a comment
in economic growth, economics of education, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, occupational choice, Robert E. Lucas Tags: endogenous growth theory
How Quickly Did the Crew of Apollo 13 Know They’d Lost the Moon?
06 May 2019 Leave a comment
in transport economics Tags: moon landings
How data drives Uber’s efficient but controversial business model
06 May 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, entrepreneurship, gender, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - USA, transport economics Tags: compensating differences
The upside of #EndCoal
05 May 2019 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: The fatal conceit, wind power
Pyongyang calling: we spent a week in North Korea
05 May 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, development economics, growth disasters Tags: North Korea
The Age of Exploration: Crash Course European History #4
05 May 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history Tags: Age of exploration
Will this be hate speech if the @NZGreens have their way
05 May 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of religion, politics - New Zealand Tags: free speech
Caturday felid trifecta: Scottish man cycles around the world with a rescue kitten; the fate of Julian Assange’s cat; mouse pwns cat;
05 May 2019 Leave a comment
Bored Panda has a heartwarming story of a Scottish man who, cycling around the world, came upon a stray tabby (click on screenshot). The rest is history.
This three-minute video, embedded in a tweet, tells the tale:
Some photos and text from the article:
In September 2018, Dean Nicholson had one goal – to cycle across the globe solo – and he began his long journey riding from his hometown Dunbar, Scotland. The 31-year-old Scottish traveler was tired from his nine-to-five job as a welder so he wanted to change his lifestyle and see the world from a bicycle seat.
The trip went great as he traveled south, passing through eight different countries and sharing his wild adventures online. But when he was crossing the Bosnian border into Montenegro, his plans…
View original post 643 more words
The view of peace activists in a nutshell. They invariably want the bad guys to win.
05 May 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of crime, International law, law and economics, laws of war, war and peace Tags: Gaza Strip, regressive left, war against terror
Andrew Sullivan sees Joe Biden as the most viable Democratic candidate
05 May 2019 Leave a comment
In his latest weekly “Interesting Times” column in New York Magazine, Andrew Sullivan lays out why he thinks Joe Biden might be the best candidate to beat Trump in November, 2020. I think I agree with him, though it’s certainly early days. Some Leftists, though, are saying we need a woman candidate or a minority candidate. Even Pete Buttigieg, who’s openly gay and married to another man, has been dissed by some Leftists for being “just another white male.”
My own view is that it’s far more important to get rid of Trump than to run a candidate who isn’t the strongest one we have (that could, of course, be a member of a minority who isn’t gay). Right now Biden is the strongest candidate, at least according to the polls, and his numbers run far above those of the other contenders. And I don’t see him as “too…
View original post 770 more words
Recent Comments