Former NASA Astronaut Explains How Food Is Different in Space | @WIRED
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in transport economics Tags: space
Classic TV: Special Branch – George Sewell, Patrick Mower,Roger Rowland – S03 E06
22 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
Episode 1 and 2 seem to be missing
Special Branch is a British television series made by Thames Television for ITV and shown between 1969 and 1974. A police drama series, the action was centred on members of the Special Branch anti-espionage and anti-terrorist department of the London Metropolitan Police.
The first two series were shot mainly in a studio on videotape with filmed location inserts; a standard method of the time but one which suffered from jarring differences in picture quality between interior and exterior scenes. The location scenes of some episodes were shot on outside broadcast cameras, leading to smoother transitions between location and studio work for those episodes. Series 1 and 2 starred Derren Nesbitt as Detective Chief Inspector (DCI) Jordan, working to Detective Superintendent Eden (Wensley Pithey) and subsequently Det. Supt. Inman (Fulton Mackay). The episodes featuring Eden (the first nine…
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Why and how geographic differences matter in economic well-being?
22 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
Superb interview of University of California, Berkeley economist Enrico Moretti.
He explains why despite the internet people continue to work in select concentrated locations:
EF: During perhaps the first decade or so of the World Wide Web, there were numerous predictions that geography would disappear or almost disappear as an issue in knowledge work. It seemed as if white-collar workers, if one believed the predictions, would be able to work from anywhere.
Moretti: Yes.
EF: What happened?
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The beauty premium
22 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, Public Choice Tags: beauty premium
The Myth of the Rational Voter | Bryan Caplan & Will Wilkinson
22 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economics of information, Public Choice, public economics Tags: rational ignorance, rational irrationality
From Big Ideas in Macroeconomics: A Nontechnical View By Kartik B. Athreya
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Thomas Sowell On the Myths of Economic Inequality
22 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
It’s Sunday, so perhaps you have more time to watch a little longer intellectual discussion of capitalism and freedom from Thomas Sowell, brilliant as usual. A splendid commentary on the general conversation out there today.
Sowell discusses his early life as a high school dropout and his first full-time job as a Western Union messenger delivering telegrams. He admits to flirting with Marxism in his early twenties as he first tried to grapple with the housing inequality he saw across the neighborhoods of New York City. Marxism, he says, was the only explanation he could find at the time. He went on to serve in the Marine Corps before continuing his education in economics at Harvard and earning a master’s at Columbia and a PhD at the University of Chicago.
Sowell’s first job after his receiving his PhD in economics was working for the Department of Labor, and he says…
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George Stigler on the poverty of abundant privacy
22 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of information, George Stigler, law and economics, property rights Tags: economics of privacy
Big Ideas in Macroeconomics: A Nontechnical View – Kartik B. Athreya – on Keynes and Minsky
22 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in business cycles, economic growth, fiscal policy, global financial crisis (GFC), great depression, great recession, history of economic thought, macroeconomics, monetary economics Tags: Keynesian macroeconomics, Post-Keynesian macroeconomics
Jordan Peterson: workaholic men in positions of power
22 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, entrepreneurship, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: gender wage gap, superstars
Why There is No Gender Wage Gap | @Heritage Foundation
22 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, health and safety, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: gender wage gap
Why are women paid less than men? | @TheEconomist
22 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: gender wage gap, personality psychology
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