William D. Nordhaus: Lecture in Economic Sciences 2018 @jamespeshaw
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in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
Nordhous cancels the class war @Ocasio2018 @SenSanders @jeremycorbyn @oxfamnz
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in economic history, entrepreneurship, income redistribution, industrial organisation, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: top 1%
How we decide? – Steven Landsburg 2008
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in applied welfare economics, behavioural economics, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economics of regulation, energy economics, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, global warming, health economics, industrial organisation, labour economics, Public Choice, public economics
Thomas Sowell on Wealth Creation, Human Capital & Colonialism
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in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, law and economics, macroeconomics, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: economics of colonialism, Roman empire, Thomas Sowell
What makes countries rich or poor?
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in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of regulation, growth disasters, growth miracles, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: The Great Escape
Here’s What Happened When Prisoners Started Vaping (HBO) @EricCrampton @cjsnowden @K_Niemietz
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in economics of crime, entrepreneurship, health economics, law and economics Tags: economics of smoking
This Is Mosul 18 Months After ISIS Was Driven Out (HBO)
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in defence economics, development economics, growth disasters, laws of war, war and peace Tags: Iraq, war against terror
Elephant Man – The Weird & Tragic History of Joseph Merrick
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in economic history, economics of media and culture
What Is France’s ‘Gilets Jaunes’ or ‘Yellow Vests’ Protest Movement?
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in economics of bureaucracy, fiscal policy, income redistribution, macroeconomics, Public Choice, public economics Tags: France
Dr. Robert Murphy on the Dubious Economics of Climate Change
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in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmists
Facing a lonely life indeed and that is before adjusting for any social desirability bias in the answers
08 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of love and marriage, health economics, law and economics Tags: dating market
The Economics of Pirates, Gypsies and Ordeals: Interview with Peter T. Leeson
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in applied price theory, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economics of crime, law and economics, laws of war, market efficiency Tags: crime and punishment, law and order, market failure, pirates
Sully | Based on a True Story
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in movies, transport economics Tags: air accidents
Ideology trumps science once again: Daphna Joel and Cordelia Fine deny the notion of “male vs. female brains”
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Cordelia Fine, a professor of the history and philosophy of science at the University of Melbourne, has carved out a niche for herself by attacking the notion that there are any evolved and genetically-based differences between males and females. Her books have been best-sellers (Testosterone Rex won the Royal Society book prize), probably because her conclusions appeal to those of a certain ideology. But those conclusions are flawed (see here, for instance). Fine’s critiques of some studies purporting to show sex differences are often good, but they’re combined with misguided characterizations of other work as well as the ignoring of results that go against her men-and-women-are-pretty-much-the-same thesis. In other words, Fine is tendentious, not objective, and her claims must always be taken with a grain of salt.
This is all on view in her op-ed with Daphna Joel (a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Tel Aviv…
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