Hershleifer on postive economics
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Richard Epstein on the cost of discrimination
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in applied price theory, Austrian economics, discrimination, economics of information, industrial organisation, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: sex discrimination
The @Greenpeace business model
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in economics of information, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: green rentseeking
Tradeable birth permits: ecological economics finest hour
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The 1619 Project: Historians versus the New York Times
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There’s no doubt that America has been marked in a big way, with many people still marginalized, by the presence of slavery in our history. I see this every week in Chicago, America’s most segregated city, where (except for Hyde Park, where I live), white and black communities are largely separated, with the latter having poorer schools, deficient government services, and, of course, lower incomes. This cannot be understood without apprehending the context in which black people came to America: as slaves.
And so I applaud the New York Times‘s “1619 Project”, described in Wikipedia and whose contents are at the NYT link just below. Its goal is to educate Americans about the legacy of slavery in America, and to produce materials to supplement secondary school history curricula. This is timely and needed: for example, a Southern Poverty Law Center survey showed this:
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A Test of the Tropical 200‐ to 300‐hPa Warming Rate in Climate Models – @RossMcKitrick – 2018
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Why are America’s poor better off than the average Dane, Swede, British or Canadian? @AOC @BernieSanders @SenWarren
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in human capital, labour economics, labour supply, politics - USA, poverty and inequality Tags: 2020 presidential election, child poverty, envy, family poverty, social insurance, The Great Enrichment
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