Will the pandemic trigger John Cochrane’s fiscal theory of inflation?
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How Harsh was the Treaty of Versailles Really?
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6 Advanced Sci-fi Civilisations Too Stupid To Really Exist (Part 2)
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10 Cool Facts About The Lewis & Clark Expedition
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Hydroxychloroquine and COVID-19: What We Know Right Now | @SciShow News
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McKitrick: What the Hockey Stick Debate is About?
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Ross McKitrick has an engaging presentation of the Hockey Stick Debate presented on April 4, 2005. Here is the abstract:
The hockey stick debate is about two things. At a technical level it concerns a well-known study that characterized the state of the Earth’s climate over the past thousand years and seemed to prove a recent and unprecedented global warming. I will explain how the study got the results it did, examine some key flaws in the methodology and explain why the conclusions are unsupported by the data. At the political level the emerging debate is about whether the enormous international trust that has been placed in the IPCC was betrayed. The hockey stick story reveals that the IPCC allowed a deeply flawed study to dominate the Third Assessment Report, which suggests the possibility of bias in the Report-writing process. In view of the massive global influence of IPCC Reports…
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali: The Market for Victimhood
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in development economics, discrimination, economic history, economics of religion, gender, liberalism Tags: free speech, Freedom of religion, political correctness, regressive left
the Great Surge (2015)
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The Great Surge, Steven Radelet, 2015
The proportion of countries living in extreme poverty has fallen from 42% in 1993 to juts 17% in 2011. The opening of China accounts for a large share of the change, but the fall also affects dozens of countries in every region of the world (sample of 109 developing countries with population greater than 1 million is considered)
People in developing countries have incomes today that are nearly double those of their parents 2 decades ago.
People born in developing countries live 1/3 longer than they did 20 years ago.
In 1980, only half of the girls enrolled and completed primary education. Today 4 out 5 are.
In 1983, 17 countries had democracies. By 2013 the number had tripled to 56.Violence decline sharply. Since 1980, incidence of civil war in developing countries has been cut by half. Battle deaths in war have…
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Peak farmland wasn’t predicted by Malthus nor @Greens @NZGreens @oxfam @greenpeaceAU
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