The power of public health interventions
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in health economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: economics of pandemics
Charles Murray — The Bell Curve Revisited in 2014
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in discrimination, economics of education, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: conjecture and refutation, IQ, philosophy of science, political correctness, regressive left
Churchill Biography
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With the publication of the final volume, Never Flinch, Never Weary, October 1951-January 1965, the official biography of Winston Churchill has been completed. As determined by the Guinness Book of World Records (the arbiter of such things), it is the longest biography in history. The completed project consists of eight narrative volumes and 23 document volumes. It has both physical and intellectual heft. Together the volumes, which have been acclaimed as a “classic of English scholarly biography,” total over 42,000 pages, measure 72 linear inches, and weigh 108 pounds. As Larry Arnn, the biography’s final editor, has commented its mammoth size is “befitting one of the largest lives ever lived.”
The story of the “Great Biography” starts in 1960 as the then 85 year-old Winston Churchill selected his son Randolph to write his biography based on his voluminous personal papers. Randolph Churchill had proven himself capable by researching and…
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Finn Kydland on mortgages and monetary policy
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in business cycles, macroeconomics, monetary economics Tags: monetary policy, real business cycle theory
Do public health interventions help?
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in economics of education, economics of regulation, health economics Tags: economics of pandemics
#endoil #endcoal #globalwarming #climateemergency @GreenpeaceAP @Greens @NZGreens @jamespeshaw @oxfam
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@BernieSanders @AOC
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in income redistribution, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics Tags: 2020 presidential election, taxation and entrepreneurship, taxation and investment, taxation and labour supply, top 1%
A hard to explain #COVID19 disparity
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in health economics Tags: economics of pandemics
Of no use to @greenpeace @Greens @NZGreens
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in economics of education, environmental economics Tags: Anti-Science left
Nuking the moon – The Secret USAF Project A119
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in defence economics Tags: moon, space
2014 Edward Prescott
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in budget deficits, business cycles, economic growth, economic history, economics of education, Edward Prescott, fiscal policy, global financial crisis (GFC), great depression, great recession, human capital, labour supply, law and economics, macroeconomics, monetarism, monetary economics, property rights Tags: real business cycle theory
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