This should start with boy bands to stop all the screaming
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in economics of crime, economics of religion, law and economics Tags: political correctness, regressive left
Fair point
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in economics of crime, economics of religion, law and economics Tags: free speech, political correctness, regressive left
David D. Friedman — A Positive Account of Rights (Budapest, 2018)
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in applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, David Friedman, economic history, history of economic thought, law and economics, property rights
How Facing Your Fears Can Help You Conquer Them
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in economics of media and culture Tags: cognitive psychology
Human Crash Test Dummies – Faster than a Speeding Bullet
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in economics of media and culture, labour economics, law and economics, transport economics
Doug Allen “The Duel of Honor – screening for unobserved social capital”
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in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, economic history, economics of crime, human capital, law and economics, property rights Tags: asymmetric information, screening, signalling
Bertrand Russell on Bernard Shaw and wit as a substitute for wisdom
30 Nov 2018 1 Comment
in economics of media and culture, Marxist economics Tags: useful idiots
The Science of Lying
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in economic history, law and economics Tags: evolutionary psychology
The Open Society Foundations & the transgender movement
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by Michael Biggs
Michael Biggs is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Oxford and Fellow of St Cross College. He researches social movements and collective protest.
The transgender movement has transformed cultural norms and social institutions at breathtaking speed. Most of us, becoming acquainted with the trans issue for the first time, are astonished to discover the extent of the gender revolution. The movement has accomplished in a few years what the movements for women’s and for gay and lesbian rights took many decades to achieve.
Part of the explanation is the amount of money behind transgenderism. The Gender Industrial Complex, as we may call it, has many components. Lucrative sponsorship comes from pharmaceutical companies and medical providers. Charities originally established to fight for homosexual rights (like Human Rights Campaign in the United States and Stonewall in Britain) wield large budgets. Last but not least, three American billionaires…
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Only a middle-aged woman could make these comments about social etiquette
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in discrimination, gender
Robert Lucas wrote a 1978 paper predicting less self-employment because of rising wages
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in applied price theory, economic history, entrepreneurship, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, survivor principle Tags: creative destruction
BEFORE Mann Made Climate Change, Chicago Was Buried Under A Mile Of Ice
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Thickness Of The Ice Sheets Compared With Modern Skylines
THE Laurentide Ice Sheet was a massive sheet of ice that covered millions of square kilometers, including most of Canada and a large portion of the northern United States.
THE last advance covered most of northern North America between 95,000 and 20,000 years ago.
THIS ice sheet was the primary feature of the Pleistocene epoch in North America, commonly referred to as the ice age. It was up to 2 mi (3.2 km) thick in Nunavik, Quebec, Canada.
PRIOR to the intervention of humans – when the climate was ‘stable’ – Chicago was buried under a mile of ice :
Before Mann Made Climate Change | Real Science
The maximum extent of glacial ice in the north polar area during the Pleistocene period included the vast Laurentide ice sheet in eastern North America.
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IN order for glaciers and ice sheets to…
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Sweden Not a Socialist Success
29 Nov 2018 1 Comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, economic growth, economic history, economics of education, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, health economics, macroeconomics, politics - USA Tags: Sweden
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