Why do employers, misogynist bastards all, not discriminate at all against mothers whose hubby is under the thumb as a stay at home dad?
24 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
Terminal Patients Got Drugs Without FDA Approval. It Added Years to Their Lives.
24 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, health economics, politics - USA Tags: drug lags
Aaron Wildavsky: Risk and Liberty 1987
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in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, economics of information, economics of regulation
4 Things You’re Not Allowed to Do in Space
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in economics of media and culture Tags: space
Friedrich von Hayek and Robert Bork Part I
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in Austrian economics, economic history, F.A. Hayek, history of economic thought
Preferences, Self Interest, Subtle Choices Gary Becker 1993
24 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, Gary Becker
The Modern Anti-Vaccine Movement, Explained
23 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
Despite the massive evidence, the anti-vaccination movement is gaining strength. Scientists are concerned measles could return even though it was eliminated in the U.S. 20 years ago. Note the footage of politician and environmentalist Joseph Kennedy included in the video. It isn’t paranoia when environmentalists really are trying to kill you.
Conversations with History: Gary Becker
23 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic history, economics of crime, economics of regulation, Gary Becker, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, Public Choice
What makes elite athletes thrive or dive under pressure? | The Economist
23 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
Christopher Hitchens – On the fascist “anti-war” movement 2005
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: Gulf war, Iraq war, war against terror
What Monty Python can teach us about Extinction Rebellion
23 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
Unless policy-makers act immediately, the planet will cease to be able to support human life in twelve years, three months and seven days … this event will happen on a Tuesday … after lunch.
No, that is not a skit from Monty Python but an approximation made by the latest virtue signalling publicity craze, Extinction Rebellion. This motley crew of eco-rednecks was founded in October, 2018 and quickly created a loose network from eco-conscious hippies to students on Easter break to antagonised aging Marxists. Together they have managed to show how social networks can be utilised to control an agenda with stunts that require limited funding, planning or intellectual coherence. The media, during a slow news cycle, are lapping up these attention whores who use the microphone and a myriad of intertwined social media accounts as acts of virtue signalling liberation.
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