The History and Ethics of the Israel-Palestine Conflict with Dr. Benny M…
10 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in economic history, liberalism, war and peace Tags: Israel, Middle-East politics, war against terror
No post-MBA gender gap, but after ten years…
10 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: gender wage gap, sex discrimination
WSJ on why Claudia Golden deserves the Econ Nobel prize: For M.B.A. students who graduated from the University of Chicago’s business school between 1990 and 2006, the authors found almost no gender gap in employment or wages just after graduation. But 10 years later, women had taken an average of one year off from work,…
No post-MBA gender gap, but after ten years…
Why the V2 rocket was a huge mistake
10 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War II
Women Working: What’s the Pill Got to Do With It?
10 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, econometerics, economic history, gender, health economics, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: economics of fertility, gender wage gap, sex discrimination
The Biden Family Tree: How Investigations are Exposing the Bidens’ Influence-Peddling Dynasty
09 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
Below is my column in The Hill on the exposure of the Biden family and its long-standing business of influence peddling. Newly released evidence from the House Committee on Ways and Means reveals over $20 million coming from 23 separate countries on four continents to at least nine Biden family members. Not only are the […]
The Biden Family Tree: How Investigations are Exposing the Bidens’ Influence-Peddling Dynasty
“She was a detective. She has inspired many researchers to study these questions
09 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, econometerics, economic history, gender, history of economic thought, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: gender wage gap, sex discrimination
Claudia Goldin Wins Nobel
09 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
Claudia Goldin wins the Nobel! Goldin is an economic historian, she was inspired to go into economics by Alfred Kahn (later the architect of airline deregulation) and later became a student of Robert Fogel at the University of Chicago. Goldin pioneered the historical analysis of the labor market and gender. If you want to read […]
Claudia Goldin Wins Nobel
Claudia Goldin | Women in Economics
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in applied price theory, discrimination, econometerics, economic history, gender, history of economic thought, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: gender wage gap, sex discrimination
Sniper One: The Blistering True Story of a British Battle Group Under Siege by Sergeant Dan Mills (2007)
09 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
‘Why are we always fighting Arabs?’ (One of Danny Mills’s platoon on a visit to the ruins of Al Amarah’s Commonwealth War cemetery, Sniper One, page 93) ‘Fucking get some, you wankers!’ (Attitude of the British squaddie to his Shia Muslim militia opponents, p.142) Americans need no encouragement to start shooting at things. (Astute cultural commentary, […]
Sniper One: The Blistering True Story of a British Battle Group Under Siege by Sergeant Dan Mills (2007)
Claudia Goldin – Why Women Won
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in discrimination, economic history, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: gender wage gap, sex discrimination
MICHAEL BASSETT: BEWARE OF THE MEDIA IN THE HOME-STRETCH
09 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
The election campaign is in its final, frenzied stage. I suspect most people have already made up their minds. Many have already voted. But our left-leaning media are increasingly frantic. The result looks like it is moving out of their reach and they are determined to make one last effort to get Chris Hipkins’ lamentable…
MICHAEL BASSETT: BEWARE OF THE MEDIA IN THE HOME-STRETCH
‘Do enlarged government deficits cause inflation?’ By Michael Bordo.
09 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in economic history, fiscal policy, macroeconomics, monetarism, monetary economics
The Islamofascist death cult of Hamas
09 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
The Palestinian Arabs got a raw deal from their leaders in 1948 when their neighbours decided the right response to the UK decolonising the Palestinian mandate by enabling the creation of Israel and a parallel Arab state was to oppose it. You may or may not agree with the creation of the state of Israel,…
The Islamofascist death cult of Hamas
NZ had been quiet about Israel-Palestine tensions for two years – but Hamas attack prompted our PM to express grave concern
09 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
The PM took time out from campaigning to express his “grave concern at the escalation of violence in Israel and Gaza”. This wording was similar to the wording in the opening sentence of a statement from Foreign Affairs Minister Nanaia Mahuta, who expressed New Zealand’s “grave concern at the escalation of violence in Israel, the […]
NZ had been quiet about Israel-Palestine tensions for two years – but Hamas attack prompted our PM to express grave concern
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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