Why new diseases keep appearing in China @NZHumanRights @voxdotcom
07 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, economics of regulation, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics Tags: economics of pandemics
Women’s Liberation 2020: My Speech
07 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
I spoke at the excellent Woman’s Place UK conference at University College London on 1 Febuary 2020 — in the opening plenary with Pragna Patel of Southall Black Sisters and Joanna Cherry QC MP, Chaired by Professor Sophie Scott.
Wow! This is going to be an be an amazing conference.
I am overwhelmed to be here on a panel with Pragna and Joanna. It is an unexpected turn in my life
- I am not an academic feminist
- or professional feminist.
- I am not a radical feminist.
- I am not a socialist feminist,
I am just a feminist
I am an ordinary woman who knows what a woman is and who refused to shut up about it.
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Lost on anti-science @Greenpeace @Greens @NZGreens
07 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of natural disasters, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: Anti-Science left
Piketty’s class war was based on measurement error
06 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in entrepreneurship, income redistribution, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics
Look Before Leaping into Climate Policies
06 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
Ross McKitrick writes at National Post ‘Believing the science’ on climate change doesn’t mean any policy goes. Excerpts in italics with my bolds
Mainstream science and economics do not support much of the current climate policy agenda and certainly not the radical extremes demanded by activist groups
There’s an assumption out there that if you “accept” the science of climate change, you are obliged to support drastic measures to cut greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This is not true. The one does not follow from the other. Mainstream science and economics do not support much of the current climate policy agenda and certainly not the radical extremes demanded by activist groups.
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Elements of Integrated Assessment Models, or IAMs.
In a recent peer-reviewed paper, my co-authors and I proved this using one of the economic models governments and academics around the world rely on. Policy-makers compute the social costs of GHG emissions…
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From Charles Murray’s Human Diversity
06 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, Marxist economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: Anti-Science left, evolutionary biology, evolutionary psychology, philosophy of science, political correctness, regressive left
The War on Police, Heather Mac Donald
06 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: crime and punishment regressive left, law and order, police shootings, political correctness
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