Queens of Brooklyn: The NYC Girls Dominating Youth Chess
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in economics of education, gender Tags: chess
No deal: Pride’s Purge and retreat from settlement
06 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
As MPs prepare to vote over whether or not to accept the Brexit deal negotiated by Theresa May, we have the second post in the series on the tumultuous events of 1648-1649, as parliamentarians disputed with each other over a treaty which might end the civil wars. Dr Vivienne Larminie of the House of Commons 1640-1660 section moves on from 15 November to 6 December 1648, to look at a critical vote and a forcible change of direction…
Over the three weeks since the prime minister announced her Brexit deal, observers might have been forgiven for detecting unprecedented twists and turns in politics at Westminster. From day to day the balance has seemed to shift between rejection and acceptance of the proposed ‘divorce settlement’ with the EU, and between groups with radically different visions of the best way forward for a country where opinion is sharply divided. Yet while…
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Why the Nats can welcome the decision to let Immigration Minister stay
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No-one had ever thought of him as a potential Olympic performer but Iain Lees-Galloway’s back somersault with double twist this week would surely have qualified him.
If he doesn’t make it to Tokyo, he still won an award from the Prime Minister – he retained his job as Immigration Minister, despite calls from the Opposition for his resignation.
It may be something he comes to regret, for he now carries the stigma of a minister who is little short of a walking disaster, one who can’t be left to make a decision on his own.
He may be grateful that Deputy PM Winston Peters sought to defend him in the House, although Peters in effect gave the game away when he conceded Lees-Galloway had made a “mistake”.
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Why women’s pockets suck: @voxdotcom @thegoods spot persistent, known but untapped profit opportunity in supplying unflattering pants to women?
06 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of media and culture, entrepreneurship, gender, industrial organisation, survivor principle Tags: entrepreneurial alertness
Why are men much more interested in women’s soccer than women; women watch men’s soccer much more than women’s soccer
06 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, sports economics Tags: gender wage gap
‘GREEN’ Energy Poverty : Thousands Dying Because They Can’t Afford Heating Bills
06 Dec 2018 2 Comments
“Giving society cheap, abundant energy would be the
equivalent of giving an idiot child a machine gun.”
– Prof Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University/Royal Society fellow
“Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn’t it our responsibility to bring that about?” – Maurice Strong, founder of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP)
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SEE now what their panic-making has inspired – symbolic global warming schemes that have hurt us infinitely more than any slight, and most probably beneficial, global warming ever could…
Thousands dying because they can’t afford heating bills | Daily Mail Online
“More than 2,700 people are dying each year in England and Wales because they cannot afford to keep their homes warm, according to an official study.
The spiralling cost of gas…
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More Sex is Safer Sex | Prof Steven Landsburg
06 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, development economics, economic history, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, health economics Tags: offsetting behaviour, unintended consequences
Hard truths about recycling – it’s mostly PR
05 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
From the RNZ website – Greg Roughan (formerly editor of Green Ideas)
Opinion – So the Sustainable Business Network (SBN) puts out a 47-page report on New Zealand’s plastic packaging system, and there’s a line that leaps out: recycling won’t fix the plastic crisis.
Geez. No kidding.
This is old news. At least, to the sort of person who reads 47-page reports on plastic. And it should be old news to the rest of us too. I really don’t mean to bag the SBN’s report here. Not even reusable bag it, because it’s excellent. But what I do want to say is, maybe if people are surprised about the whole ‘recycling doesn’t actually help much’ thing, then maybe it’s time for some hard truths?
It’s worth reading the whole piece.
Roughan makes some good points. Do not agree with his solutions, but he raises issues that need discusiing, rather than much…
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Posting this while I am still permitted to do so
05 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of religion Tags: Blasphemy, free speech
The Last Chess Shop in New York City
05 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture Tags: chess
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