Why you should tolerate intolerable ideas | Nadine Strossen
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in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: free speech
Signaling
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in applied price theory, economics of information, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, law and economics, survivor principle Tags: adverse selection, moral hazard, signaling
Richard Epstein: Obamacare’s Collapse, the 2016 Election, & More
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in economics of crime, economics of information, energy economics, environmental economics, financial economics, global warming, health economics, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, Richard Epstein
Healthy ageing stops in your 80s
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in health economics Tags: economics of ageing, health insurance
Are corporate board diversity and more women directors proxy variables errors? @women_nz
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in econometerics, financial economics, gender
HT https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/03/do-female-board-members-matter.html from Alam, Zinat S. and Chen, Mark A. and Ciccotello, Conrad S. and Ryan, Harley E., Gender and Geography in the Boardroom: What Really Matters for Board Decisions? (December 18, 2018). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3336445 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3336445
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the Meaning of “Click-bait”
24 Jun 2019 Leave a comment
Perhaps we should increase the age when one is eligible to run for Congress. AOC was apparently an excellent student. She graduated cum laude with a double major in international affairs and (snort) economics. But she was the youngest woman to be elected to Congress. She announced Friday that an explosion at a Philadelphia oil refinery was due to climate change, arguing that the incident underscores the urgency of her Green New Deal. (A vat of butane ignited and eventually exploded at the Philadelphia Energy Solutions Refining Complex, followed by a series of smaller explosions through the pipes moving fuel around the complex. It injured five workers and took 120 firefighters to bring under control.)
You have noticed, I ‘m sure that AOC has become what is called “click bait”– that is, articles about her will be clicked on and partly read, which means that the advertisers’ ads will be…
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Vulgar Keynesian @TheAusInstitute concedes top tax rate is mostly on savings, which means high marginal deadweight cost of income taxes
24 Jun 2019 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, politics - Australia, public economics
From http://web.mit.edu/krugman/www/vulgar.html
Vulgar Keynesians A penny spent is not a penny earned? By Paul Krugman 1997
Edward Luttwak on the role of strategy in international politics
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: Edward Luttwak
John Stuart Mill’s big idea: Harsh critics make good thinkers | Keith Whittington
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in economics of education, economics of information, law and economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: free speech, moral psychology, political correctness
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