Does real business cycle theory ignore depressions?
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in budget deficits, business cycles, econometerics, economic growth, economic history, Edward Prescott, Euro crisis, fiscal policy, global financial crisis (GFC), great depression, great recession, history of economic thought, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, monetarism, monetary economics, public economics, Robert E. Lucas Tags: real business cycle theory
How Bad Helmets Gave Us a Map of Vision
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in defence economics, health economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
Paola Sapienza – Does culture affect economic outcomes?
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in entrepreneurship, human capital, international economic law, international economics, International law, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice Tags: economics of immigration
Why not just go from the 109 to the 262?
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War II
If sex is assigned at birth, how do sex selective abortions work?
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in discrimination, gender, health economics, law and economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: abortion law reform, political correctness, regressive left
The great contraction in safe collateral
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in business cycles, economic history, economics of information, Euro crisis, financial economics, fiscal policy, global financial crisis (GFC), great recession, law and economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics, property rights, Public Choice, public economics Tags: adverse selection, asymmetric information, efficient markets hypothesis, moral hazard
2019: The Year of Celebrity Science
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The blank look on Jane Fonda’s face revealed that, 50 years on, her activism has aged more than she had. When a BBC Newsnight reporter asked where Fonda got the numbers indicating an existential climate collapse threatening humanity, she replied authoritatively: “From the science!”. When challenged on this, her fumbling revealed how her advisers had assumed that no one was going to question her on that and on whether she had, indeed, read “the science”.
2019 was the year of Celebrity Science – where the cameras focused on stars making a token gesture to some mystical doctrines to be revered rather than read; where virtue signalling meets fear of missing out; and where decades of research could not withstand a mindless celebrity tweet. Anti-vaxx stars walk down red carpets, gurus tout naturopath remedies or celebrities get themselves arrested to help stop the extinction of humanity or collapse of entire ecosystems…
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Anti-science @Greens @GreenpeaceAP #globalwarming #climateemergency
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in environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia Tags: Anti-Science left, climate alarmists, pessimism bias
Blokes are a lot faster
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in discrimination, gender, law and economics, sports economics Tags: political correctness, regressive left
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