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In September 2008 during the year of the last financial collapse, Peter Cappelli authored an article titled The Trouble with HR in the Harvard Business Review. In it, he argued that HR departments had lost their relevance and credibility in many organisations, asserting the need for them to reinvent themselves. Cappelli claimed that HR departments…
Dr Michael John Schmidt: Poisoned pill – Te Whatu Ora
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in history of economic thought, Marxist economics
Karl Marx (1818-1883) remains one of the most highly cited authors in academic literature, 140 years after his death. But when did his writing become especially prominent? During his lifetime or after? And how has his prominence trended in recent decades? Philip Magness and Michael Makovi discuss the history and offer some measurements of how…
The Reputation of Karl Marx and the Soviet Revolution of 1917
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in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, discrimination, economic history, economics of crime, gender, history of economic thought, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice Tags: Age of Enlightenment, free speech, political correctness, regressive left
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in development economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: India
“India cannot survive without coal as it has no other options.” The post COP28: India doubles down on right to increase coal power and CO2 emissions first appeared on Watts Up With That?.
COP28: India doubles down on right to increase coal power and CO2 emissions
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in economics of education Tags: free speech, political correctness, racial discrimination, regressive left
Here we have a news piece (not an op-ed) from a recent Wall Street Journal, reporting that a high school in the Chicago-adjacent town of Evanston, Illinois, is offering voluntarily race-segregated classes as a way to achieve “equity”. These classes, called “affinity classes”, are of course optional, because mandated race-segregated classes are illegal. The claim […]
The double irony of classes voluntarily segregated by race
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Religious policy In the month following her accession, Mary issued a proclamation that she would not compel any of her subjects to follow her religion, but by the end of September 1553, leading Protestant churchmen—including Thomas Cranmer, John Bradford, John Rogers, John Hooper, and Hugh Latimer—were imprisoned. Mary’s first Parliament, which assembled in early October, […]
November 17, 1516: Birth of Queen Mary I of England and Ireland. Part VI.
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
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in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
By Paul Homewood This caught my eye: Germany’s residential grid operators will be empowered to restrict the flow of power to heat pumps and electric vehicle (EV) chargers from 2024 in order to preserve the stability of the grid, which is suffering from chronic underinvestment. Across Europe, investments into grids are lagging […]
EV chargers, heat pumps may be curtailed in Germany as of 2024
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in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: Canada
Alberta has invoked the Sovereignty Act to set limits on the exercise of federal power. But the federal government claims there is no legal basis for their actions.
Canadian Green Electricity Push Blocked by Alberta
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War II
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in econometerics, economic growth, economic history, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, occupational choice
The per capita GDP for the combined 27 countries of the European Union (EU-27) is about 72% of the US level. On the other side, the average worker in EU countries puts in far fewer hours on the job than do American workers. For example, OECD data says that the average US worker put in…
Comparing EU-to-US Output Per Hour
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From the latest American Economic Review: A large body of evidence finds that relative mobility in the US has declined over the past 150 years. However, long-run mobility estimates are usually based on White samples and therefore do not account for the limited opportunities available for nonwhite families. Moreover, historical data measure the father’s status […]
Perhaps intergenerational mobility has not declined in the United States after all
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in defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of crime, growth disasters, law and economics Tags: Somalia
Caado la gooyaa car alle ayey leedahay (‘The abandonment of tradition calls forth the wrath of Allah’, Somali proverb, quoted in The World’s Most Dangerous Place, page 398) James Fergusson worked on this book with help from a grant from the Airey Neave Trust, a charity whose objective is to promote research ‘designed to make […]
The World’s Most Dangerous Place: Inside the Outlaw State of Somalia by James Fergusson (2013)
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in budget deficits, business cycles, currency unions, development economics, fiscal policy, growth disasters, macroeconomics, monetary economics Tags: Argentina, dollarisation
Yes, I do still favor it, but here is part of the problem, as I explain in my latest Bloomberg column: The simplest way for Argentina to dollarize would be to inflate the peso even more. For purposes of argument, imagine a peso inflation rate of one billion percent a year. Pesos would be worthless, […]
Why Argentina’s dollarization is likely to come in sudden, messy ways
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