Protecting the Innocent – Kids Evacuations – On the Homefront 003
16 May 2020 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War II
#OTD
15 May 2020 Leave a comment
in defence economics, International law, war and peace Tags: Israel
PELOSI by Molly Ball
15 May 2020 Leave a comment
The term chutzpah can be interpreted in only one way – a great deal of nerve or other words I cannot use! In the present case it is the perfect description of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi particularly following the completion of Donald Trump’s State of the Union message last January when she ripped up the speech as it was riddled with lies in front of an audience of millions of Americans. Opponents of Pelosi castigated her actions, but they forget it was preceded by Trump’s refusal to engage in the traditional handshake with the Speaker before the speech. Why did Pelosi react in such a manner? The answer to this question is imbedded in who she is as a person and a professional and forms the core of Molly Ball’s new book, PELOSI.
Ball’s crisp writing style makes PELOSI an easy biography to read as in part…
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How big will the drop in weddings be? Big
15 May 2020 Leave a comment
In the short run, people are canceling their weddings that were already booked, or not planning the ones they were going to have this summer or fall. In the long run, we don’t know.
To look at the short run effect, I used Google Trends to extract the level of traffic for five searches over the last five years: wedding dresses, bridal shower, wedding license, wedding shower, and wedding invitations (here is the link to one, just change the terms to get the others). These are things you Google when you’re getting married. Google reports search volume for each term weekly, scaled from 0 to 100.
Search traffic for these terms is highly correlated with each other across weeks, between .45 and .76. I used Stata to combine them into an index (alpha = .92), which ranges from 22 to 87 for 261 weeks, from…
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Poorest 20% of Americans Are Richer on Average Than Most Nations of Europe
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in labour economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality Tags: child poverty, family poverty
Four heavy hitters criticize the New York Times for “Orwellian” retroactive censorship
15 May 2020 Leave a comment
You’ve probably heard of at least several authors of this new Politico piece, which I suspect but don’t know for sure was submitted to (and rejected by) the New York Times after the paper retroactively redacted a column by Bret Stephens on the overrepresentation of Ashkenazi Jews “in intellectual and creative fields”. The article by Paresky et al. is a severe indictment of the Times‘s policies, which now include giving in to an “outrage mob” and changing a column (as well as removing genuine facts), without leaving a record of the changes. Truly, the New York Times under its relatively new management (wokemeister A. G. Sulzberger) is going down the tubes—fast.
You probably know of Jon Haidt and Steve Pinker, whom I’ve written about often, and have likely heard of Nadine Strossen (former head of the ACLU and now a Professor of Law Emerita at New York Law…
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Vaccines are the greatest public health intervention ever
15 May 2020 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: The Great Escape, vaccines
One-child policy compared
15 May 2020 Leave a comment
in development economics, discrimination, economics of love and marriage, gender, growth disasters, growth miracles, labour economics, labour supply, population economics, poverty and inequality Tags: ageing society, economics of fertility
Would You Survive In a Different Historical era?
15 May 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture
The Exact Moment Many Realized The Left Had Gone Insane | Yasmine Mohammed | Rubin Report
15 May 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, economics of religion, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, Public Choice, television Tags: Freedom of religion, freedom of speech, political correctness, regressive left
How many more Big Macs can $22 per hour Danes buy compared to $9 per hour Americans?
14 May 2020 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, minimum wage, poverty and inequality Tags: Europe
The Man Who Made Hong Kong
14 May 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, entrepreneurship, growth miracles, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, liberalism, property rights, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: capitalism and freedom, Hong Kong
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