Morning in America: Political Ads That Changed the Game
10 May 2020 Leave a comment
in politics - USA, television Tags: Attack Ads, economics of advertising
Sending the Jews to Madagascar? – War Against Humanity 011 – May 1941
10 May 2020 Leave a comment
in defence economics, laws of war, war and peace Tags: The Holocaust, World War II
Valerie Ramey: The Role of the Family in Children’s Educational Achievement
10 May 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of education, economics of love and marriage, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: child poverty, education premium, family poverty
Georgy Zhukov – Hero of the Soviet Union! – WW2 Biography Special
10 May 2020 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: Russian revolution, World War I, World War II
Lawyer Breaks Down 17 Courtroom Scenes From Film & TV | @WIRED
10 May 2020 Leave a comment
in law and economics, movies, television
Enigma Captured! – WW2 – 089 – May 9, 1941
10 May 2020 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War II
Enigma Captured! – WW2 – 089 – May 9, 1941
10 May 2020 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War II
Can the Government Spend Us To Prosperity with Valerie Ramey
10 May 2020 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, defence economics, econometerics, economic history, fiscal policy, global financial crisis (GFC), great depression, great recession, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, unemployment Tags: Keynesian macroeconomics, New Keynesian macroeconomics
The Swedish Exception?
09 May 2020 Leave a comment
Erik Angner & Gustaf Arrhenius
Stockholm University & Institute for Futures Studies
It is still too early to determine which national responses to the 2020 coronavirus pandemic worked, and which ones did not. It is not too early to explore the differences in local strategies, as well as the context within which they are set. Much of this seems missing from the debate, even though history, tradition, legal and social norms, and so on, should be expected to matter greatly.
This gap is perhaps most evident in most of the commentary around the Swedish response to the pandemic. Sweden’s approach is getting a great deal of attention, in part because it is often framed as going against the mainstream. The differences may be overstated but they certainly exist. They are also instructive for everyone who cares about how best to deal with the crisis.
Sweden’s democratic system of government…
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The Hidden Rules of Conversation
09 May 2020 1 Comment
in economics of education, economics of media and culture Tags: economics of languages, network economics
Born Naked: Planet of the Humans Exposes Renewable Energy as the Greatest Fraud of All Time
09 May 2020 Leave a comment
Planet of the Humans has done more than touch a raw nerve among climate cultists and RE zealots, it’s sent them into apoplexy.
Michael Moore’s withering attack on the power and money behind the renewable energy scam – produced by Moore and made by Jeff Gibbs – has been uploaded to YouTube to allow all and sundry to get the message: renewable energy is the greatest economic and environmental fraud of all time. STT first covered it here: Blood & Gore: Mike Moore’s ‘Planet of The Humans’ Unmasks The Power & Money Behind Renewables Scam
The film focuses on characters like David Blood and Al Gore who have made $billions by stripping the world’s landscapes and wilderness in order to burn every scrap of timber they can, in subsidised ‘biomass’ fuelled power plants – and leaves them looking like the cynical, mercenary hypocrites that they are.
That Elon Musk, Al Gore…
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