Evolutionary Explanation of Behavior (Disgust)
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in health economics Tags: evolutionary psychology
Facts about Human Evolution
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in economics of media and culture Tags: evolution
How Do Babies Become Bilingual?
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in economics of media and culture Tags: child development, economics of languages
What Happened to the Spent Lunar Modules?
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in economics of media and culture Tags: moon landings
Climate economics (PG): Policy advice Richard Tol
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India Rumbles Wind Power as Fake Electricity: Output Collapses During Dead-Calm Monsoon
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The spinning wheel was meant to signify Indian independence, too.
It never takes them long to work out that wind power is the greatest economic and environmental fraud of all time. Eco-zealots have attempted to ram wind and solar power down the throats of Third World governments under the auspices of saving the planet and purportedly with the purpose of dragging millions out of poverty. As the initiated well-know, wind power rates zero on both scores. Pointless and expensive, wind power is a kind of first world disease being spread by UN endorsed lunatics, across the developing world.
In India, solar power is seen as ‘fake electricity’, by those being forced to use it: The Cruel Hypocrisy: West Drops Wind Power as it Forces ‘Fake Electricity’ on the World’s Poor
Now, Indians have branded wind power an outright fraud, too. The calm, and very wet weather that comes with the monsoon…
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Minnesota Madness: Big Freeze Exposes Wind & Solar’s Deadly Flaw – Hopeless Intermittency
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Power consumers pinning their hopes on the weather, inevitably learn to expect mixed results. 200,000 Victorian businesses and households learnt the hard way, as a sudden wind power output collapse left them sweltering during a summer heatwave.
At the other end of the temperature spectrum, the risk of being powerless is even more serious. The elderly and frail do not last long without reliable and affordable energy to heat their abodes.
Across America’s Mid-West a burst of frigid weather has exposed the fatal (literally) flaw in wind and solar power: they’re never there when you need them most.
Why “Green” Energy is Futile, In One Lesson
Powerline
John Hinderaker
31 January 2019
Here in Minnesota, we are enduring a brutal stretch of weather. The temperature hasn’t gotten above zero in the last three days, with lows approaching -30. And that is in the Twin Cities, in the southern part of…
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The gender commuting gap explodes with motherhood as does the raw gender wage gap in the UK
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in discrimination, gender, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, transport economics Tags: gender wage gap
Demsetz is spot on on the drivers of market concentration
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in entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, survivor principle Tags: antitrust economics, competition law, creative destruction
The gender gap in meddlesome preferences
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in economics of education, economics of regulation, law and economics Tags: meddlesome preferences, nanny state
Before the polio vaccine
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in economic history, health economics Tags: vaccines
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