What’s Your Moonshot?
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in defence economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics Tags: The fatal conceit
The woke never understood who was the main enemy of the Age of Enlightenment
01 Apr 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of religion, liberalism, libertarianism, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: Age of Enlightenment, free speech, political correctness, regressive left
Daily US labour supply #COVID19
01 Apr 2020 Leave a comment
in business cycles, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, politics - USA, unemployment
Source: Homebase at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vTf0Ce37p3B0Qy-5BZPh1p9-WwEekPOxVdpMsumy6JFeCIt9EO6ZxbGNpnNxjdf9Mr9USeIMqjq9YU0/pubhtml#
#COVID19 identity politics
31 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in health economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: economics of pandemics, political correctness, regressive left
#COVID19 #plasticbagfascism @NZGreens @mfe_news @EugenieSage
26 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, environmental economics, health economics, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: economics of pandemics, offsetting behaviour, recycling, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
The Real Reason Russia Sold Alaska To The United
26 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in economic history, politics - USA
How much of 20th century growth were one-off productivity gains?
25 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
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Should social media platforms censor hate speech? | Nadine Strossen | Big Think
23 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: constitutional law, free speech
How was the war on poverty going?
20 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in economic history, income redistribution, labour economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality
the Full-income Poverty Measure estimates the share of people in poverty using a post-tax, (comprehensive or full) post-transfer definition of income. Similar to the Official Poverty Measure, it includes market income (wages and salaries, self-employment and business income, farm income, retirement income from pensions, dividends, interest, rent and alimony) and cash transfers (Aid to Families with Dependent Children/Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, Social Security and workers’ compensation). It then adds the market value of health and non-health in-kind transfers (food stamps/SNAP, subsidized school lunches, rental housing assistance, and Medicare and Medicaid) as well as the market value of employer-provided health insurance. It subtracts Federal income and payroll taxes but adds tax credits including the Earned Income Tax Credit, Child Tax Credit, and Additional Child Tax Credit (the refundable portion of the CTC) based on estimated tax liabilities using NBER Taxsim 9.3 (Feenberg and Coutts 1993). We impute several of these income sources in the early years of our analysis because they were not collected in the CPS-ASEC.
From https://www.iza.org/publications/dp/12855/evaluating-the-success-of-president-johnsons-war-on-poverty-revisiting-the-historical-record-using-a-full-income-poverty-measure via http://conversableeconomist.blogspot.com/2020/03/us-poverty-over-time-how-to-compare.html
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