Spanish Flu: a warning from history
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in defence economics, economic history, health economics Tags: pandemics
People Who Are Most Fearful Of Genetically Modified Foods Think They Know The Most About Them, But Actually Know The Least
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Psychology’s favourite tool for measuring implicit bias is still mired in controversy
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A New Study Supports Evolutionary Psychology’s Explanation For Why Men And Women Want Different Attributes In Partners
01 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
gender equality gives women room to pursue their true romantic and sexual preferences, which aren’t all that far off from mens’.
Climate change: no consensus on consensus
31 Jan 2020 1 Comment
by Judith Curry
The manufactured consensus of the IPCC has had the unintended consequences of distorting the science, elevating the voices of scientists that dispute the consensus, and motivating actions by the consensus scientists and their supporters that have diminished the public’s trust in the IPCC.
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The 97% ‘consensus’
31 Jan 2020 1 Comment
by Judith Curry
Isn’t everyone in the 97%? I am. – Andrew Montford
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#MedicareForAll @AOC @BernieSanders @SenWarren
31 Jan 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, health economics, income redistribution, industrial organisation, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: 2020 presidential election, Canada, health insurance, offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
#endoil @Greenpeace @Greens @NZGreens #globalwarming #climateemergency
31 Jan 2020 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: The fatal conceit
New paper : News Driven Business Cycles: Insights and Challenges
31 Jan 2020 Leave a comment
I posted on my “current work” page a new paper with Paul Beaudry “News Driven Business Cycles: Insights and Challenges“. As written in the abstract,
There is a widespread belief that changes in expectations may be an important independent driver of economic fluctuations. The news view of business cycles offers a formalization of this perspective. In this paper we discuss mechanisms by which changes in agents’ information, due to the arrival of news, can cause business cycle fluctuations driven by expectational change, and we review the empirical evidence aimed at evaluating its relevance. In particular, we highlight how the literature on news and business cycles offers a coherent way of thinking about aggregate fluctuations, while at the same time we emphasize the many challenges that must be addressed before a proper assessment of its role in business cycles can be established.
Key Words are “News”, “Business…
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Straw Men in the Religious Discrimination debate
31 Jan 2020 1 Comment
An article in the Sydney Morning Herald (“Religious discrimination bill gives Australians ‘right to be a bigot'”, J Ireland, SMH 30 Jan 2020) sets up a number of “straw man” arguments so that it can knock them down and claim that the proposed Religious Discrimination Bill is harmful. I disagree.
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