The Mob Mentality of Al Capone – Biography
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The Science of Bias, Empathy, and Dehumanization | Paul Bloom
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Claudia Goldin (2018) on the last chapter in the Quest for Career and Family @NZPSA @women_nz
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in applied price theory, discrimination, economics of education, entrepreneurship, gender, health economics, human capital, labour economics, managerial economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics, poverty and inequality Tags: gender wage gap
Japan’s Yakuza: Inside the syndicate | The Economist
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in economics of crime, industrial organisation, law and economics Tags: Japan, organised crime
IEA: Petrochemicals set to be the largest driver of world oil demand
07 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
Oil extraction [image credit: ewg.org]
A recent energy conference was told: “The world will attain the 100 million barrels a day mark of [oil] consumption later this year, much sooner than we all earlier projected.” This report notes that petrochemicals ‘are required to manufacture many parts of the modern energy system, including solar panels, wind turbines, batteries, thermal insulation and electric vehicles’.
Petrochemicals are set to account for more than a third of the growth in world oil demand to 2030, and nearly half the growth to 2050, adding nearly 7 million barrels of oil a day by then, reports Green Car Congress.
They are also poised to consume an additional 56 billion cubic meters (bcm) of natural gas by 2030, and 83 bcm by 2050.
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Would we be better off stepping into a time machine and going back to 1979
07 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
in economic history Tags: pessimism bias
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