In these more prudish times, anti-prohibitionists cannot be this blunt about personal liberty
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Report card on the Drone commander-in-chief
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in International law, politics - USA, war and peace
A taxonomy of 24 authoritarian types
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in liberalism, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: economics, expressive voting, ideologies, Personality traits
History of crude oil prices 1861-2014
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The rise of the working rich among the top 0.1% in the USA
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in applied welfare economics, economic history, entrepreneurship, politics - USA, poverty and inequality
Source: “Income Inequality in the United States, 1913-1998” with Thomas Piketty, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 118(1), 2003, 1-39
(Tables and Figures Updated to 2012 in Excel format, September 2013) via Chad Jones
Before 1940, most of the income of the top 0.1% of income earners in the USA was income from investments.
By the end of the 20th century, the top 0.1% were earning their incomes as wages and salaries, business incomes and capital gains. Very little of that income of the top 0.1% was in the form of passive income from capital. The top 0.1% of the USA are now working rich – entrepreneurs.
Was Moynihan, right? The role of prospective success in assortative mating in family poverty
19 Dec 2014 1 Comment
What Might Persuade Hillary Clinton Not To Run In 2016 | FiveThirtyEight
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in politics - USA Tags: 2016 US presidential election, Hillary Clinton
How Good Are Jeb’s Chances?
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in politics - USA Tags: 2016 US presidential election
Also note the difference in the voting record and public issue statements of Rand Paul.
There is no front runner in the Republican race at the moment.
I think one of the lesser known candidates will be the eventual winner. Will be neither of Jeb Bush or Rand Paul.
by Dish Staff
Nate Silver and his team created “ideological scores for a set of plausible 2016 Republican candidates based on a combination of three statistical indices: DW-Nominate scores (which are based on a candidate’s voting record in Congress), CFscores (based on who donates to a candidate) and OnTheIssues.org scores (based on public statements made by the candidate)”:
Bush scores at a 37 on this scale, similar to Romney and McCain, each of whom scored a 39. He’s much more conservative than Huntsman, who rates at a 17.
Still, Bush is more like his father, George H.W. Bush, who rates as a 33, than his brother George W. Bush, who scores a 46. And the Republican Party has moved to the right since both Poppy and Dubya were elected. The average Republican member in the 2013-14 Congress rated a 51 on this scale, more in line with potential candidates…
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Men (No Longer) At Work
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in human capital, labour economics, labour supply, politics - USA, population economics
by Dish Staff
Binyamin Appelbaum looks into the causes of the decline in America’s male work force:
Working, in America, is in decline. The share of prime-age men — those 25 to 54 years old — who are not working has more than tripled since the late 1960s, to 16 percent. … Many men, in particular, have decided that low-wage work will not improve their lives, in part because deep changes in American society have made it easier for them to live without working. These changes include the availability of federal disability benefits; the decline of marriage, which means fewer men provide for children; and the rise of the Internet, which has reduced the isolation of unemployment. …
The resulting absence of millions of potential workers has serious consequences not just for the men and their families but for the nation as a whole. A smaller work force is likely to…
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The starkness of Cuba’s technology gap, charted
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in development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, politics - USA, technological progress Tags: Cuba, Elysium
Not much better than north Korea. Elysium was a great movie showing the differences between Cuba and Florida.
The war on drugs: Drug induced mortality rates compared
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in applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, economics of regulation, political change, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: drug decriminalisation, marijuana decriminalisation, Portugal, war on drugs
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