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Weitzman versus @ProfSteveKeen on Nordhaus ignoring tipping points
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in applied welfare economics, environmental economics, global warming
Alfred Marshall was an astute observer of the labour market using asset specificity and hold-ups
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Spanish North America
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in economic history, International law Tags: age of empires, maps
Surprise! Cats are just as attached to their staff as are dogs and babies
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There’s a new paper in Current Biology (click screenshot below, pdf here, and reference at bottom), which shows that, using standard methodology for measuring attachment to staff (“owners” in the vulgate), both kittens and adult cats are as attached to their staff as are human babies and d*gs. The paper is very short—two pages if you don’t read the supplementary material—and you can peruse it below. There’s also a good summary of the results in Ars Technica by Jennifer Oullette.
Initially, 70 kittens between 3 and 8 months old were tested for their degree of “security” using the Secure Base Effect test (SBT). As Jennifer notes, it’s done this way:
The felines spent two minutes in an unfamiliar room with their owner, who sat on an X in the middle of a circle marked on the floor and could only interact with their cat when the animal entered the…
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Are Electric Cars Really More Environmentally Friendly?
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in development economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: electric cars
The Russian War Machine And The Race To The Sea I THE GREAT WAR – Week 9
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
In Indy op-ed, Omar Barghouti blames Israel for his UK visa delay
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In a Sept. 23rd Independent op-ed, BDS leader Omar Barghouti, who rejects Israel’s right to exist, responded to the fact that he was unable to speak at the Labour Party conference in Brighton (due to his visa request being delayed) by peddling a conspiracy theory.
I was set to take part in a Labour Party conference fringe event this weekend talking about my work advocating for Palestinian rights – but was unable to travel to Brighton because of a peculiar delay in the processing of my UK visa application. I suspect that Israel’s far-right government has once again outsourced its desperate war of repression against those supporting Palestinian rights to another western government.
Barghouti’s suggestion is clear: that his visa application delay was not the fault of the UK Home Office, or even Prime Minister Boris Johnson, but, rather, the government in Jerusalem – an allegation…
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From the Dunedin longitudinal tudy
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in economic history, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of information, economics of media and culture, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: law and order, marriage and divorce, single mothers
From Code of the Street @nytimes review
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in comparative institutional analysis, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of information, economics of media and culture, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics Tags: street capital
The IDI and government data linking
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Browsing on The Treasury’s website the other day, it was the title that caught my eye: “Talkin’ about a revolution”. I’m rather wary of revolutions. Even when – not always, or perhaps even often – good and noble ideas help inspire them, the outcomes all too often leave a great deal to be desired. There are various, quite different, reasons for that, but one is about the failure to think through, or care about, things – themselves initially small or seemingly unimportant – that the revolution opens the way to.
This particular “revolution” – billed as “a quiet and sedate revolution, but a revolution nonetheless” – was sparked by Statistics New Zealand’s Integrated Data Infrastructure (IDI). Here is the Treasury author
The creation of Stats NZ’s IDI (or Integrated Data Infrastructure), a treasure trove of linked data, sparked the revolution, and its ongoing development drives it…
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