Bodyguard reveals lifestyle of Fidel Castro – Newsnight archives

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The World’s Oldest International Borders

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A 1978 Conservative party political advertisement

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Richard Posner on public intellectuals

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Why the spike? Can’t get time off work for interview at WINZ office for the 12-month unemployment benefit reassessment?

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From https://www.msd.govt.nz/documents/about-msd-and-our-work/publications-resources/information-releases/weag-report-release/obligations-and-sanctions-rapid-evidence-review-paper-5-the-52-week-reapplication-for-sole-parent-support-and-benefit-cancellations.pdf

Saez and Zucman are rather blase about the impact of wealth taxes on innovation. Encourage innovation then tax away succesful innovators!

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Gender wage gap is bugger all after adjusting for motherhood penalty @women_nz @JulieAnneGenter

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James Heckman on racial wage gaps and racial discrimination by employers

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A Conversation with George P. Shultz and David D. Friedman

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So @mfe-news hasn’t got a jot of in-house information on the climate treaty risks of leading by example

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The dangers of wokeness

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On the ethics of the randomisters

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From https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Ethical_Formation_of_Economists.html?id=XAWcDwAAQBAJ

Would a “Wealth Tax” Help Combat Inequality? A Debate with Saez, Summers, and Mankiw

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by Jim Rose in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, economics of education, entrepreneurship, financial economics, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, Marxist economics, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: , , , , , , ,

A chinese millionaire went broke after he got religion. Business partners, suppliers and customers didn’t trust him anymore.

19 Oct 2019 Leave a comment

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Do bosses take your labour surplus with them when they die? More on the rise of a working rich @AOC @BernieSanders

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by Jim Rose in applied price theory, entrepreneurship, financial economics, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, Marxist economics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: ,

from http://www.ericzwick.com/capitalists/capitalists.pdf

Matthew Smith, Danny Yagan, Owen Zidar, Eric Zwick, Capitalists in the Twenty-First Century, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 134, Issue 4, November 2019, Pages 1675–1745,

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