Finally Some Robust Research Into Whether “Diversity Training” Actually Works – Unfortunately It’s Not Very Promising
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Jordan Peterson discusses whether men and women can ever be equal
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in discrimination, economics of crime, economics of education, gender, health and safety, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: gender wage gap
Why this black hole photo is such a big deal
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in economics of media and culture
Thomas Sowell: Debunking Systemic Racism and Having Common Decency (Pt. 2)
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in Thomas Sowell Tags: racial discrimination
Seumas Milne and the Stasi
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He provided a niche service on the Guardian by catering for a corner of the market that yearned to hear defences of 20th century Soviet Communism and 21st century Islamo-Fascism at the same time and for the same reasons.
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Few noticed in 2015 when Seumas Milne excused the tyranny that held East Germany in its power from the Soviet Invasion in 1945 until the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Nearly every page reeked of a sly attempt to sweeten dictatorship and cover up the murder it inevitably brings. It was greeted with deserved indifference.
As for Milne, two-years ago he was just another columnist in a newspaper industry that is stuffed with them. He provided a niche service on the Guardian by catering for a corner of the market that yearned to hear defences of 20th century Soviet Communism and 21st century Islamo-Fascism at the same time and for the same reasons. Now Milne is Jeremy Corbyn’s Executive Director of Strategy and Communications. There is a faint chance he could be the most influential adviser in a Corbyn government, if Labour wins power. He won’t…
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Watch “EXCLUSIVE: Assange arrested & escorted out of Ecuadorian Embassy” on YouTube
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in economics of crime, law and economics
Holocaust Buchenwald Concentration Camp Uncovered (1945) #OTD | British Pathé
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in defence economics, economics of crime, law and economics, war and peace Tags: Nazi Germany, The Holocaust, World War II
Top economists still dewy eyed about deposit insurance despite its role in #GFC, S&L crisis, and bank capital ratios halving after its introduction in 1930s
11 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
in financial economics, global financial crisis (GFC), monetary economics, Public Choice
From http://www.igmchicago.org/surveys/european-deposit-insurance
Peltzman spelled out in his 1970 article “Capital Investment in Commercial Banking and Its Relation to Portfolio Regulation”
that banks capital ratios dropped significantly in the US after the introduction of deposit insurance.
Jordan Peterson – How Women REALLY Choose Men
11 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of love and marriage, human capital, law and economics Tags: dating market
Close to the mark
11 Apr 2019 1 Comment
in economics of media and culture Tags: political correctness
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