Saudi teen who fled family says freedom was worth risking her life
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in discrimination, economics of crime, gender, International law, law and economics Tags: economics of immigration
Day 20 of @EugenieSage’s #plasticbagfascism: 10th plastic bag
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in applied price theory Tags: meddlesome preferences, nanny state
Air Conditioners: Coolest Idea Ever
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in economic history, entrepreneurship Tags: The Great Enrichment
Surprising unanimity in opposition to a #UBI
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in fiscal policy, politics - USA, poverty and inequality
Swedes not Sweden to Finland’s Rescue – WW2 – 021 – January 19 1940
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War II
Behind on my blogging from a @Facebook group suspended for hate speech. Bicycles pass me like this every day.
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A portfolio selected by four 8-year olds can outperform hedge funds managers
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in entrepreneurship, financial economics Tags: efficient markets hypothesis
Nearly all economists reject monopsony rationale for doubling the minimum wage! @NeumarkDN: countering employer market power over 1/3rd of the workforce with a higher minimum wage is supposed to increase employment and output. Monopsony depresses wages and employment.
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in applied price theory, labour economics, minimum wage, politics - USA
There is always one top economist who forgets what happened in the last 50 years in macroeconomics
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in economic growth, macroeconomics, monetary economics, Public Choice
Weekend long read
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1) Writing at the New York Times, Matti Friedman explains why “There Is No ‘Israeli-Palestinian Conflict’”.
“There isn’t an Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the way that many outsiders seem to think, and this perception gap is worth spelling out. It has nothing to do with being right-wing or left-wing in the American sense. To borrow a term from the world of photography, the problem is one of zoom. Simply put, outsiders are zoomed in, and people here in Israel are zoomed out. Understanding this will make events here easier to grasp.
In the Israeli view, no peacemaker can bring the two sides together because there aren’t just two sides. There are many, many sides. […]
If you see only an “Israeli-Palestinian” conflict, then nothing that Israelis do makes sense. (That’s why Israel’s enemies prefer this framing.) In this tightly cropped frame, Israelis are stronger, more prosperous and more numerous…
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California Renewables to Lose PG&E $$$
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The investigation continues into the origin of the Camp fire, which some say started with a faulty PG&E wire in Pulga, California. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times / TNS)
Sammy Roth of LA Times digs deeper than others into the fallout from PG&E’s wildfire-induced bankrupcy. The article published in The Seattle Times is PG&E bankruptcy could undermine utilities’ efforts against climate change. Excerpts below with my bolds.
Solar and wind developers depend on creditworthy utilities to buy electricity from their projects under long-term contracts, but that calculus changes in a world where a 30-year purchase agreement doesn’t guarantee 30 years of payments.
The Golden State has dramatically reduced planet-warming emissions from the electricity sector, largely by requiring utilities to increase their use of solar and wind power and fund energy-efficiency upgrades for homes and businesses. Lawmakers recently set a target of 100 percent climate-friendly electricity by 2045.
But those…
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