@paulkrugman on @ProfSteveKeen’s inability to get even the basics of macroeconomics right but @NZTreasury invited him over anyway
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Why does Belarus Exist?
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in defence economics, economic history, International law, law and economics, Public Choice Tags: maps, World War I, World War II
Investigating the “STEM gender-equality paradox” – in fairer societies, fewer women enter science
03 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
UK Government to ban fossil fuel systems in new builds by 2025
03 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
Gas is supposed to be ‘polluting’, but wood-burning power stations are OK? Yet more climate-related government policy nonsense is wheeled out, in line with the obsession over a minor trace gas in the atmosphere.
Polluting fossil fuel heating systems such as gas boilers will be banned from being installed in new homes by 2025 under new plans proposed by the government, reports Energy Live News.
They will be replaced with the latest generation of clean technologies such as air source heat pumps and solar panels, according to Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick.
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Thomas Sargent on the conquest of American inflation
03 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, economic growth, economic history, fiscal policy, history of economic thought, inflation targeting, macroeconomics, monetary economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, unemployment Tags: real business cycles, unemployment and inflation
Beauty wage premium econometric’s flaw is women think most men are ugly and men have no idea
03 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, econometerics, human capital, labour economics, occupational choice
From http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~hal/people/hal/NYTimes/2003-08-28.html
Sex differences in mate preferences are no smaller in more gender-equal nations, contrary to the idea that these di… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…—
Steve Stewart-Williams (@SteveStuWill) May 31, 2019
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