The Science of Political Judgment and Empathy | Paul Bloom | Big Think
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in economic history, economics of education, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, Marxist economics, Public Choice Tags: evolutionary psychology, expressive voting, free speech, moral psychology, political psychology, regressive left
Essential UCLA School of Economics: The Economics of Unintended Consequences
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in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Armen Alchian, comparative institutional analysis, economics of information, economics of regulation, Gary Becker, George Stigler, industrial organisation, law and economics, Ronald Coase, Sam Peltzman, survivor principle
George Selgin, 2016 conference: ‘Quantitative Easing. Triumph or Folly?’
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Our electoral system is to be subjected to a sweeping review – but the Maori seats are in no danger of being brushed away
05 Oct 2021 Leave a comment
The Parliamentary seats put aside especially for Maori – they provided Labour with five MPs at the 2020 general election – are among the issues that are off limits during something described by RNZ as “a sweeping review of the country’s electoral laws”.
It will include voting age, the three-year term, party funding and the “coat-tailing” rule.
But the government has been careful to ensure the seven Maori electorates (although it lost two of them to the Maori Party at the last general election) aren’t swept away during this clean-up of our electoral system.
As Faafoi explained without the hint of a blush, the review will not consider changes to Māori seats, local elections, changing from the MMP system, or fundamental constitutional changes such as becoming a republic or having an upper house.
Moreover, he said some rule changes – he described these as “targeted” ones, such as changes to…
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unpleasant arithmetic hyperinflation Thomas Sargent
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in budget deficits, business cycles, economic history, financial economics, fiscal policy, macroeconomics, monetarism, monetary economics, public economics Tags: hyperinflation, monetary policy
Edward Prescott: Labor Reform and Crisis Recovery – Barcelona GSE
05 Oct 2021 Leave a comment
in business cycles, economic growth, Edward Prescott, fiscal policy, global financial crisis (GFC), great depression, great recession, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, monetary economics, unemployment
David Friedman – The World From an Anarchist-Anachronist-Economist’s View
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in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, David Friedman, economics of crime, labour economics, law and economics, property rights
Statistical Modeling of Monetary Policy and It’s Effects
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in budget deficits, business cycles, economic history, fisheries economics, global financial crisis (GFC), great recession, history of economic thought, macroeconomics, Milton Friedman, monetarism, monetary economics Tags: Keynesian macroeconomics, monetary policy
The Greens may never have a better opportunity to tackle climate change
04 Oct 2021 Leave a comment
In Germany that is.
Age before beauty they say. But after last week’s inconclusive election in Germany it’s the forty-something leader of the Green party, Annalena Baerbock, and her generational compatriot, Christian Lindner of the market liberal Free Democrats (FDP), who are making the running in coalition negotiations, leaving the sexagenarians who head the Christian and Social Democrats out in the cold – for now.
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Under My Wheels: Why Solar ‘Roadways’ Turned Out to Be An Epic Engineering Fail
04 Oct 2021 Leave a comment
Whatever happened to solar roadways? A few years back, embedding PV cells into road surfaces was going to be the next big thing. And then, all of a sudden, it wasn’t.
True it is, that the wind and solar cult attracts all sorts of cranks and crackpots, promoting all sorts of harebrained schemes and subsidy-backed scams. But, as Sarah Marquart explains below, there were a host of reasons why this one would never roll.
Understanding Solar Roadways: An Engineering Failure of Epic Proportions
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Sarah Marquart
4 March 2021
Remember Solar Roadways? As a fresh reminder, Solar Roadways became massively viral in 2014 after claiming to be the end-all solution to the global energy crisis. The idea was simple: to implant solar panels into roads to produce electricity. The panels were allegedly also going to light up the roads with different LED patterns, replacing painted lines. For the winter, heating…
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