What a scientist suggests you tell your kids about legal marijuana
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5 Reasons Progressives Should Support Israel – Alan Dershowitz
07 May 2019 Leave a comment
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Half of Venezuela’s oil exports were to the US until a few months ago
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Too late now
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Gambling for Redemption and Self-fulfilling Debt Crises
06 May 2019 Leave a comment
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Cleaver institutional criticism of socialists
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2. Tell a New Story – Doughnut Economics or @KateRaworth is a @MontPelerinSoc conspiracy theorist
03 May 2019 Leave a comment
in business cycles, discrimination, economic growth, economic history, economics of regulation, F.A. Hayek, financial economics, gender, global financial crisis (GFC), human capital, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, macroeconomics, Milton Friedman, occupational choice, Public Choice Tags: conspiracy theories, conspiracy theorists
Introduction to Microeconomics (Lecture 9: Monopoly and Competition) Murray N. Rothbard
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Margaret Thatcher’s economic legacy | The Economist
02 May 2019 Leave a comment
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Fake Socialism vs. Real Capitalism Jason Brennan
01 May 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, Marxist economics, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice Tags: capitalism and freedom
Empathy, John Rawls and JS Mill or why the state sector code of conduct was designed to drive empathy out of the @NZTreasury
30 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice

From Decety J, Yoder KJ. Empathy and motivation for justice: Cognitive empathy and concern, but not emotional empathy, predict sensitivity to injustice for others. Soc Neurosci. 2015;11(1):1–14. doi:10.1080/17470919.2015.1029593
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