Dershowitz: Shame on Mueller, doesn’t have the guts to make a decision
25 Mar 2019 1 Comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA
The origins of the anti-vaccine movement @voxdotcom
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in economic history, health economics, politics - USA Tags: anti-vaccination movement, The Great Escape, vaccines
The top 1% dropped the ball once again on ensuring the rich get richer and the poor get poorer
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in economic history, politics - USA, poverty and inequality Tags: child poverty, family poverty, social insurance
A Tom Schelling exam question in strategy
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in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, Public Choice Tags: game theory, Thomas Schelling
Will @JacindaArdern join women across the Middle East who burn their hijabs in protest and solidarity on #NoHijabDay?
25 Mar 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, gender, law and economics Tags: political correctness, regressive left
Why Jordan Peterson is certain Icelands equal pay laws will fail
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in discrimination, economics of education, entrepreneurship, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, managerial economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics Tags: gender wage gap
Do transwomen have to pass a police check to enter women’s refuges? I did just to volunteer at the cat run at the SPCA.
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in economics of crime, gender, law and economics
Women’s refuges should have been named mothers’ refuges because their kids needed emergency housing before their mothers could flee violence
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in economics of crime, gender, law and economics
Comparing the complexity of languages
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Which language do you think is the most complex? There are a lot of different answers that people will give to this question. Some people are sure that whatever language they struggled with in high school is the most complex. Others are certain that highly influential cultures must have complex languages, so they choose Greek, Latin, Sanskrit, or Chinese. Language buffs might break out a rare one like Tlingit or Lardil. Many people insist it is their own native language that’s the most complex, though oddly, I’ve found that just as many people seem willing to say their own language is terribly simple.
But ask a linguist, and you get a really wet blanket answer: no language is any more complex than any other. Or, put another way, all languages are equally complex. That answer tends to stop conversation dead in the tracks and no one is really satisfied by it, so I’m going to…
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The left denies science mostly for reasons of solution aversion?
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in economics of education, energy economics, environmental economics, health economics, law and economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: anti-foreign bias, anti-GMO movement, anti-intellectualism, anti-market bias, cognitive psychology, pessimism bias, political psychology, regressive left
Terraforming: Can We Turn Mars Into Earth 2.0?
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in economics of media and culture Tags: Mars
Schwerer Gustav – Rail Super Gun (Behemoth)
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War II
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