% of births to unmarried women
Iceland 67%
France 56
Sweden 54
UK 48
US 41
Germany 35
Italy 28
Poland 22
Turkey 3 pic.twitter.com/vfCqEkz25u— Conrad Hackett (@conradhackett) February 7, 2015
What would happen if the Yellowstone supervolcano actually erupted? – Vox
08 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
the number of terrorist incidents driven by religion has increased dramatically since 2000
07 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, economics of religion, law and economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: war against terror
HT: wonkblog
\Parties and the Gender Gap | The Mischiefs of Faction
07 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
in politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: voter demographics
Newsflash: economics used to explain oil price ups and down
06 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, energy economics, politics - USA Tags: Oil prices
HT – David_Boaz’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/David_Boaz/status/538770368270721024?s=09
Competing visions of success – left and right
06 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, entrepreneurship, human capital, labour economics, occupational choice, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: activists, distributive justice, do gooders, expressive voting, Leftover Left, poverty and inequality, rational ignorance, rational irrationality, top 1%
Twice as many on disability benefits, less than half as many families on welfare in the USA
06 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
Name recognition and your chances of winning the presidential nomination
06 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of information, economics of media and culture, politics - USA Tags: 2016 presidential election, name recognition
A clickable timeline of central banking activity during the 2008 financial crisis
05 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
Why popularist politics work: People Are Terrible at Estimating Income Inequality
05 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of information, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: expressive voting, poverty and inequality, rational ignorance, rational irrationality, the top 1%, urban myths
Does global warming denial and the anti-vaccination movement march to the same anti-science step?
03 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
in climate change, economics of information, economics of media and culture, environmental economics, global warming, health economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: anti-vaccination movement, climate alarmists, expressive politics, expressive voting, psychology of persuasion
In the last post, I presented evidence, collected as part of the CCP Vaccine Risk Perception study, that showed that the trope has no meaningful connection to fact.
Those who accept and reject human evolution, those who believe in and those who are skeptical about climate change, all overwhelmingly agree that vaccine risks are low and vaccine benefits high.
The idea that either climate change skepticism or disbelief in evolution denotes hostility to science or lack of comprehension of science is false, too. That’s something that a large number of social science studies show. The CCP Vaccine Risk study doesn’t add anything to that body of evidence.
Vaccination rates are a serious issue. Do those that are trying to lift vaccination rates think they going to get anywhere by calling people stupid, corrupt and in the pay of a multinational.
Of course not. This matter is serious. It’s a real public health risk.
People are persuaded to vaccinate through gentle messages providing facts in a way they can understand that also respects their knowledge, their intellect, and their concerns for the safety of the children. You don’t win people over by insulting them.
The climate alarmists are so insulting because they have no interest in persuading the people that are actually talking to. They are reaching out to members on the audience were are on the margin, and appealing to their political base, including the fundraising base by showing how staunch they are in slaying the Dragon.
Evidence of mass kidnappings of Occupy protesters
03 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: activists, do gooders, expressive voting, Left-wing hypocrisy, occupy movement, superstar effect
Because the most-popular songs now stay on the charts for months, the relative value of a hit has exploded.
The top 1 percent of bands and solo artists now earn 77 percent of all revenue from recorded music, media researchers report. And even though the amount of digital music sold has surged, the 10 best-selling tracks command 82 percent more of the market than they did a decade ago.
The advent of do-it-yourself artists in the digital age may have grown music’s long tail, but its fat head keeps getting fatter.
The only explanation for the failure of the Twitter Left to protest against this concentration or of wealth and massive rise in ticket prices to the downtrodden young public that go to concerts is a mass kidnapping of the protesters in the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Street by street confirmed measles cases in Auckland, New Zealand 2014
03 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: anti-vaccination movement, measles
video link is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAluTnnLyF4
Data is for the Auckland health board district.
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