Why Students Love Evolutionary Psychology . . . and How to Teach It
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in economics of information, economics of media and culture, health economics Tags: evolutionary psychology
Toilets Dollar Street
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in development economics, health economics Tags: sanitation
Flak Training for Pilots in WW 2
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War II
Day 8 of @EugenieSage’s #plasticbagfascism: 3rd bag with price hiked to 20 cents
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in environmental economics Tags: nanny state
@AOC Isn’t Crazy, She’s Immoral @BenShapiro
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in economics of information, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: regressive left
Steven Pinker on Sex Differences, Human Nature, and Identity Politics (Pt. 1)
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in discrimination, economic history, economics of education, economics of information, environmental economics, gender, health economics, human capital, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: evolutionary psychology, political correctness, regressive left, Steven Pinker
Leda Cosmides on Socialism and Human Nature
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in development economics, economic history, economics of information, health economics, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, survivor principle Tags: evolutionary psychology
Nancy Stokey’s Plenary at SED 2018 on technology diffusion
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in applied price theory, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, survivor principle Tags: creative destruction, technology diffusion
Top 10 Political Ads of 2016
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in economics of information, politics - USA Tags: 2016 presidential election, Attack Ads
2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke (1968)
07 Jan 2019 Leave a comment
Origins
It all started with a short story Clarke wrote for a BBC competition in 1948 when he was just 21, and titled The Sentinel. It was eventually published in 1951 under the title Sentinel of Eternity.
13 years later, after completing Dr. Strangelove in 1964, American movie director Stanley Kubrick turned his thoughts to making a film with a science fiction subject. Someone suggested Clarke as a source and collaborator, and when they met, later in 1964, they got on well and formed a good working relationship.
Neither of them could have predicted that it would take them four long years of brainstorming, viewing and reading hundreds of sci-fi movies and stories, and then honing and refining the narrative, to develop the screenplay which became the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, released in 1968 and one of the most influential movies of all time.
The original plan…
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Reviewing the BBC’s record of reporting on Israeli elections
07 Jan 2019 Leave a comment
Despite a very lively campaign that has so far included the dismantling of previous alliances, the registration of numerous new parties and the standing down of some veteran Israeli politicians, BBC reporting on Israel’s upcoming April 9th general election has to date been confined to a report about the announcement of the election and a mention in a subsequent BBC Radio 4 programme which ignored that announcement.
Before the BBC’s Jerusalem bureau commences coverage of the 2019 election it is worth taking a look at its record of reporting on previous Israeli elections.
In the 2013 election the BBC’s reporting focused predominantly on one side of the political map and presented Israel as a country lurching rightward while depicting that perceived shift as the sole reason for the predicted failure to make progress in the peace process. When that predicted lurch to the right did not happen, some…
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Stone Age Minds: A conversation with evolutionary psychologists Leda Cosmides and John Tooby
07 Jan 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of education Tags: evolutionary psychology
Why @jamespeshaw is afraid to commission an estimate of the cost of #globalwarming as a percentage of NZ GDP @mfe_news
07 Jan 2019 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - New Zealand Tags: climate alarmism
From David Romer’s graduate macroeconomics textbook
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