Winter is Coming – 114 – October 31, 1941
01 Nov 2020 Leave a comment
in defence economics, laws of war, war and peace Tags: World War II
Macroeconomic dynamics and reallocation in an epidemic
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in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, economic growth, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, economics of regulation, health economics, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, Public Choice Tags: economics of pandemics
Still more on economists ignoring home production @waring_marilyn @women_nz
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in applied welfare economics, discrimination, economic growth, economic history, economics of education, gender, history of economic thought, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, occupational choice Tags: female labour supply, marriage and divorce
A good question and a clear answer
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This week Shadow Secretary of State for Women and Equalities Marsha de Cordova asked a good question about the single sex exceptions in the Equality Act.
Equalities Minister Kemi Badenoch gave a good and clear answer.
Providers have the right to restrict the use of spaces on the basis of sex, and exclude transgender people with or without a GRC if this is justified.
Kemi Badenoch, Equalities Minister, 2020
It is worth reflecting that she talked about “restricting the use of spaces” on the basis of sex.
How do you do this? A service provider sets a rule which applies to the space, based on sex: male or female only. And they communicate it.
Usually they do this with a simple pictogram like this:
This picture is not just a commonly understood cultural image, it is standardised internationally as part of ISO Standard 7001 . It explicitly means…
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Andrew Sullivan gives Biden a pat on the back
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I haven’t found the latest few installments of Andrew Sullivan’s The Weekly Dish terribly exciting, and, truth be told, they haven’t been as thoughtful or engaging as his old tripartite column for New York Magazine. I know his readers enjoy the ability to publish their “dissents”, which is good, and like to guess “where was this photo taken?”, but I prefer his serious, longer-form pieces.
There’s only one such piece per week now, and this week’s is about Joe Biden. It’s pretty good, but I’m wondering if my $50 subscription was well spent. I’m hoping that, after the election, Sullivan will find new and interesting things to write about. I’m not giving up yet.
I think The Weekly Dish is now pay-only, but if you subscribe you can see the post by clicking on the screenshot below. I’ll give a few excerpts, but I have little to say about…
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Why the Japanese Air Forces failed in World War 2
01 Nov 2020 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War II
Evolution of Music Industry Visualized, Revenue by Storage Medium 1977 – 2020
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in economic history, industrial organisation, Music Tags: creative destruction
Creative destruction
31 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in economic history, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, survivor principle Tags: creative destruction
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Hazardous drinking in NZ
31 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in health economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: economics of addiction
Biggest gender gap of all; equivalent to 6-12 months extra schooling
31 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: gender wage gap
“It is too early to say”
31 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
Zhou Enlai’s famous quote, made during Nixon’s groundbreaking visit to China in 1972, in response to a question about French revolts, was actually not referring to the French Revolution of 1789 but the revolts of 1968.
I was reminded of this while watching the following scenes of people fleeing Paris just the other day before the commencement of a new curfew and lockdown process in response to a second wave of Chinese Lung Rot cases and deaths.
The reason is contained in this graph.
That chart is more than a month old and things have not improved since then…
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