Top 10 Actors Who Surprisingly Didn’t Die From Drugs
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in movies, television
World’s 7 Greatest Magic Tricks Revealed
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in economics of media and culture
For Cardassia-They will be dying for Cardassia,not the Dominion
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MILTON FRIEDMAN Free To Choose: “Who Protects the Worker?”
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Unions sometimes protect some workers – their members – but usually at the expense of other workers. Government protects its employees and special groups of workers at the expense of other workers.
Both unions and government restrict freedom. Friedman explains how the competition of employers for the talents of workers leads to the highest wages and best working conditions.
The Day We Almost Set the World on Fire
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in defence economics, economic history, war and peace Tags: atomic bomb tests, World War II
I followed this limping mother cat and found her whole family in the bushes
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BBC approach to gender-segregated events differs with location
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On August 12th a report titled “The Kenyan dance parties where men are banned” appeared on the BBC News website’s ‘Africa’ page.
Readers of that sympathetic report were told that:
“The team behind a new event in Nairobi argues all-women’s dance parties can create safe nightlife spaces for women. […]
“You have to be so strict in a place with men. You just want to go out with your friends and men interfere,” says Jane, 26, who’s come to the party with her best friend Shani.
“So having a space where it’s all women immediately feels safe and you feel you are with people who understand you.””
And:
“Munira, 22 and Khadija, 25 are best friends. As practising Muslims, they often find themselves with minimal options when it comes to night life.
They say that, although women from all faiths attend the all-women parties, they particularly suit…
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How to Restore US Prosperity – Edward C. Prescott
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in business cycles, economic growth, Edward Prescott, global financial crisis (GFC), great depression, great recession, macroeconomics, monetary economics Tags: real business cycles
#plasticbagfascism comes to @kfcnz: how do you carry 2 drinks if the bag has no handles? Must clasp bag leaving only 1 hand free @eugeniesage?
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in economics of regulation, environmental economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: recycling
scholar-activism: a gentle critique
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This week, I was asked to participate in a panel at ASA about scholar-activism. The panel was organized by Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra with panelists Daniel Laurison, Philip Cohen and ASA’s Margaret Vitullo. The whole panel was fascinating. Before we get to what I said, I just want to affirm the following so that people on don’t misconstrue what I said:
- I believe that activism is valuable.
- I believe that many scholars are great activists.
- I believe that it would be very good if social scientists contribute to the public.
- There are many excellent sociologists whose work has public impact.
So, then, what’s my beef? I have three points:
Scholar-activism can cheapen activism: This happens in a few ways. For example, some people might say, “everything we do is activism.” Or, people who aren’t activist are implicit activists because they reinforce the status-quo. With respect to scholars of color, some might…
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Stephen Williamson responds to @nytimes: What if Sociologists Had as Much Influence as Economists?
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in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, discrimination, economics of education, economics of information, economics of media and culture, labour economics, labour supply, poverty and inequality, unemployment
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