#WorldHijabDay’19! The hashtag for WHD’19 is #FreeInHijab time for all of us to voice our CHOICE of #hijab!? #LikeASlaveCelebratingTheirShackles
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in economics of religion Tags: free speech, Iran
The Elephant In The Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life
31 Jan 2019 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, economics of education, economics of information, income redistribution, law and economics, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: signalling
Renewables aren’t base load supply
31 Jan 2019 6 Comments
in energy economics, politics - Australia Tags: renewable energy, solar power, wind power
Day 31 of @EugenieSage’s #plasticbagfascism: 14th bag
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in economics of regulation, environmental economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: recycling
‘The House divided’: the creation of a second division lobby for the Commons in 1836
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The huge publicity given to recent parliamentary votes on Brexit has put the over-crowded division lobbies of the House of Commons in the spotlight as never before and prompted the introduction of proxy voting on a trial basis. While MPs now vote in two division lobbies, this has only been the case since 1836, as Dr. Kathryn Rix, Assistant Editor of our House of Commons, 1832-1945 project, explains.
On 22 February 1836 an historic vote took place in the House
of Commons, when the second reading of the London and Brighton Railway Bill was
defeated by 281 votes to 75. What made this division so significant was not the
legislation involved, but the manner in which the vote took place. As the Commons Journal recorded, ‘The House
divided: The Yeas to the old Lobby; The Noes to the new Lobby’. That new…
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Top economists unanimous in opposition to @NZsuperfund’s beat the market strategy @TaxpayersUnion @EricCrampton
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in entrepreneurship, financial economics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, public economics Tags: active investing, efficient markets hypothesis, passive investing
Good theories are prohibitions; what does a theory strictly forbid
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in environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmism
Junior Begins Going To Every Funeral He Can – The Sopranos
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from Microeconomic Insights: ‘The economics of density: evidence from the Berlin Wall’
30 Jan 2019 Leave a comment
by Gabriel Ahlfeldt (London School of Economics, LSE), Stephen Redding (Princeton University), Daniel Sturm (LSE) and Nikolaus Wolf (Humboldt University Berlin)
The full post and online access to the full article is available on the Microeconomics website
Economic activity is highly unevenly distributed across geographical space. This is reflected in the existence of cities as well as the concentration of economic functions in specific locations within cities, such as Manhattan in New York and the Square Mile in London. Understanding the strength of the forces of agglomeration that underlie these concentrations of economic activity is central to a range of policy questions.
What makes cities thrive? Is it proximity to natural resources – such as rivers, oceans, and energy sources – that make places attractive for firms to locate production? Is it shared amenities – such as leafy streets and scenic views – that make them attractive places for people…
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The “Overheated” Costs of Climate Change
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in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - USA Tags: climate alarmism
A response from Steve Pinker to Salon’s hit piece on “Enlightenment Now”
30 Jan 2019 Leave a comment
Phil Torres is a “riskologist” who studies existential risk, and seems to have it in for the New Atheists (Salon, of course, is always willing to provide him with a platform for that). Torres’s latest Salon piece is an attack on Steve Pinker and his last book (Enlightenment Now, or EN), a piece called “Steven Pinker’s fake Enlightenment: His book is full of misleading claims and false assertions.” Torres’s piece is pugnacious, ending with a suggestion that Pinker may actually be hiding stuff that he knows is wrong:
Let me end with a call for action: Don’t assume that Pinker’s scholarship is reliable. Comb through particular sentences and citations for other hidden — or perhaps intentionally concealed — errors in “Enlightenment Now.” Doing so could be, well, enlightening.
When I read Torres’s piece, I wasn’t impressed, as Pinker’s “errors and false assertions” seemed to…
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