What Happens to an Email After You Click “Send”?
24 Nov 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, economics of media and culture, law and economics Tags: spam
Hum
24 Nov 2018 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, health economics Tags: economics of obesity
Sentinel Tribe of Andaman Islands
23 Nov 2018 Leave a comment
in development economics, economics of media and culture Tags: India
Oh dear, it’s populism again
23 Nov 2018 Leave a comment
This is just a quick post to draw everyone’s attention to the Guardian‘s new series on European “populism”. You can read its opening salvo here, and you can follow the whole series here. You can even do the quiz to find out how much of a populist its experts think you are (I came out closest to Barack Obama).
For a while there, I thought people had stopped using “populist” as the label for the anti-democratic forces that many of us are concerned about, and were adopting more honest and precise terms like “far-right nationalist”, or just “Trumpist”. So I don’t know if the Guardian is just behind the curve, or if this is a new wave of confusion.
Nonetheless, some of their material on election results looks interesting; I’ll study it when I get the chance and report back. But my general view is that the…
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The lure of virtue signaling
23 Nov 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture Tags: pessimism bias, political correctness, regressive left, virtue signaling
Climate economics: Economic impacts of climate change
23 Nov 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, econometerics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmism
Where did the displaced farmers go after the tractors came for their jobs?
23 Nov 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economic history, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply Tags: creative destruction
From the gold old days before neoliberalism
23 Nov 2018 Leave a comment
in economic history, poverty and inequality Tags: The Great Enrichment
Prescott Says ‘Partial’ Default Is Likely for Greece”
23 Nov 2018 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, economic growth, Edward Prescott, Euro crisis, fiscal policy, global financial crisis (GFC), great recession, macroeconomics, Public Choice, public economics Tags: time inconsistency
Bertrand Russell on his meeting with Vladimir Lenin in 1920: (absolutely brilliant commentary on bolsheviks)
23 Nov 2018 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, law and economics, Marxist economics, Public Choice Tags: Russian revolution
Proof that Christianity is the wrong faith
23 Nov 2018 Leave a comment
This is a sad story but also a story of stupidity, even if John Chau couldn’t have done other than what he did.
What Chau did, as recounted in the story in the Guardian (click on screenshot), was to hire locals to take him to North Sentinel Island, one of the remote Andaman and Nicobar Islands that are territories of India.
And that island is home to the Senitelese, who firmly reject any contact with the outside world. They’ll fire arrows at anyone who comes near, including an Indian helicopter investigating possible damage to the island after the tsunami of 2004. Two years later, two Indian fishermen whose boat accidentally drifted ashore on North Sentinel were killed by the locals. It’s not a good idea to go there.
But Chau was on a mission from God: he wanted to introduce the Senitelese to Jesus. He approached the island…
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