I was very excited to read that Claudia Goldin (Harvard University) was awarded the 2023 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (aka the Nobel Prize in Economics) on Monday, “for having advanced our understanding of women’s labour market outcomes”. There are several reasons I was excited. First, it is welcome…
Nobel Prize for Claudia Goldin
Nobel Prize for Claudia Goldin
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Another reason why Palestine is largely responsible for its own plight: its leaders get rich taking money from the people
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While I’m by no means an uncritical worshiper of the Israeli government, neither will I blame the war and its carnage on Israel’s “apartheid” policies. If there is an apartheid state among the two, it’s surely Palestine, which won’t allow Jews to live there (in contrast, I was just in Israel and saw that Jerusalem […]
Another reason why Palestine is largely responsible for its own plight: its leaders get rich taking money from the people
The Neutron Prosecutor: How Special Counsel Hur May Prove the Ultimate Punchline in Washington
11 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
Below is my column in the New York Post on reports that Special Counsel Robert Hur has finally interviewed President Joe Biden on allegations that he removed and retained classified material going back to his time as a United States senator. The problem facing Hur could be what to do if he actually finds evidence […]
The Neutron Prosecutor: How Special Counsel Hur May Prove the Ultimate Punchline in Washington
Understanding Gender Economics
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in discrimination, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: gender wage gap, sex discrimination
I’ve written several times about the issue of the gender pay gap, mostly to point out that our friends on the left are wrong when they assert that there is pervasive and significant sex discrimination in wage levels. When debating this issue, the first thing I ask people is whether businesses want to maximize profits. […]
Understanding Gender Economics
JOHN RAINE, DAVID LILLIS and PETER SCHWERDTFEGER: Universities or Indoctrination Centres?
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in economics of education, liberalism, Marxist economics
The assertion that all human knowledge is equally valid and the university is a site of power contestation makes it easier to understand the abandonment of fundamental academic principles, not least that of academic freedom (Doug Stokes in “Against Decolonisation” pp. 83-84). Becoming Ethno-institutions? As New Zealand Universities move further towards becoming ethno-institutions we state…
JOHN RAINE, DAVID LILLIS and PETER SCHWERDTFEGER: Universities or Indoctrination Centres?
Why you should stop believing this WW1 myth
10 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
The History and Ethics of the Israel-Palestine Conflict with Dr. Benny M…
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in economic history, liberalism, war and peace Tags: Israel, Middle-East politics, war against terror
No post-MBA gender gap, but after ten years…
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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
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War II
Women Working: What’s the Pill Got to Do With It?
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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
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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 Tags: gender wage gap, sex discrimination
Claudia Goldin Wins Nobel
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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)
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