The Madness of Howard Hughes – Biography
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in economics of media and culture
Sexual Attraction Is Shaped by Gut Bacteria, Infectious Diseases, and Parasites | Kathleen McAuliffe
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Is Everyone A Little Bit Racist? | Implicit Bias
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in discrimination, economics of information, economics of media and culture, gender, labour economics Tags: racial discrimination, sex discrimination, statistical discrimination
Paul Romer’s contributions
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in applied price theory, development economics, economic growth, macroeconomics Tags: endogenous growth theory, Paul Romer
The transformation of economic analysis at the Federal Reserve during the 1960s
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This increase in the number of economists seem to coincide with the great inflation of the 60s and 70s and 1970s stagflation and a denial that inflation was a monetary problem
This is a superb paper by Beatrice Cherrier and Juan Acosta. In history of central banking, we barely look at role and evolution of economic research at the central bank. Did it influence policies and if yes in what way and if no why? Who were the key people in this economic research team and so on. Most of these people are also unsung but do quite a lot of work in the central bank.
This paper looks at eco research at Federal Reserve:
In this paper, we build on data on Fed officials, oral history repositories and hitherto under-researched archival sources to unpack the torturous path toward crafting an institutional and intellectual space for postwar economic analysis within the Fed. We show that growing attention to new macroeconomic research was a reaction to both mounting external criticisms against the Fed’s decision-making process and a process internal to the discipline whereby…
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Europe Prior to World War I: Alliances and Enemies I PRELUDE TO WW1 – Part 1/3
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in defence economics, economic history, war and peace Tags: World War I
reflection on sociology and the sokal 2.0 hoax
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Last week, a trio of scholars perpetrated what people are now calling the “Sokal 2.0” hoax. They wrote 20 (!) papers on obviously bizarre and bogus topics and tried to get them published in various journals in the humanities and the “softer” social sciences. There are many commentaries you can read but I want to focus on two points:
First, if a scholarly community wants respect and financial support, they need to show that they can weed out garbage in their journals. That includes kooks, cranks, impostors, incompetents, and provocateurs. If editors can’t spot obvious trash, then they get what they deserve. The only people who deserve our sympathy are the peer reviewers, whose time was wasted.
Second, sociological journals rejected all the bogus manuscripts sent to them. On Twitter, Will Wilkinson had a good summary. The issue is that sociology is at its core a positivist discipline. That’s just…
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They must have had some good drugs back in the 80s; current 100m women’s record held by Florence Griffith-Joyner set in 1988
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in economics of crime, gender, sports economics
Her connection must be as good as any East German sports chemist. Marion Jones came close with 21.62 seconds in 1998 to Griffith-Joyner’s 200m record, which also still stands, before later admitting she had been doping.
That means that any decent high school boys athlete is faster than any woman who has ever lived by a good margin.
These US estimates are still small @jamespeshaw @mfe_news; mostly from loss of life which is the easiest to fix by mitigation and adaptation
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in applied welfare economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - New Zealand
From S. Hsiang el al., “Estimating economic damage from climate change in the United States,” Science (2017). science.sciencemag.org/cgi/doi … 1126/science.aal4369 Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2017-06-climate-economy-inequality.html#jCp
Even runaway climate change of 6 to 8°C reduces GDP by by 2100! less than 10%
US has county level estimates but @jamespeshaw can’t estimate cost of global warming for NZ! @mfe_news says it is too hard!!
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in applied welfare economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - New Zealand
S. Hsiang el al., “Estimating economic damage from climate change in the United States,” Science (2017). science.sciencemag.org/cgi/doi … 1126/science.aal4369 Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2017-06-climate-economy-inequality.html#jCp
Summing over 10 years still left the cost of global warming as tiny
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in environmental economics, global warming, politics - New Zealand Tags: climate alarmists
10 Creepy Stories of Female Stalkers
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in economics of crime, law and economics, movies, Music, television
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