Sonia Poulton, Journalist, Social Commentator, on the replacement of “women” by “womxn”
29 Nov 2018 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, labour economics, law and economics
The Catholic Church Is Losing its Mothers
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in economics of crime, economics of religion, law and economics, politics - USA
A phone app in Israel
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in defence economics, laws of war, war and peace Tags: Gaza Strip, Hamas, Israel, war against terror
Brendan O’Neill on Demise of Left to Environmentalism
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in economic history, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, health economics, history of economic thought Tags: pessimism bias, regressive left
Why Communists Sucked at Making Cars | WheelHouse
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in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, transport economics
5 Unsolved Mysteries About Dinosaurs
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in economic history, economics of media and culture
Kate Andrews debates the the UK gender wage gap on BBC’s Daily Politics
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in discrimination, economics of education, gender, health and safety, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: gender wage gap
Why Colombia has taken in 1 million Venezuelans
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in defence economics, development economics, energy economics, growth disasters, international economic law, International law, Marxist economics Tags: Columbia, Venezuela
‘Straight Left” from Tankie Faction in the Communist Party of Great Britain to the Heart of the Labour Party.
28 Nov 2018 Leave a comment
Straight Left.
“The hatred and contempt with which each side treats the others—as also the bewilderment and distress of the silent majority of Party loyalists—seems now to exceed that in the Labour Party at the height of Bennism. In the Eurocommunist camp, as then on the Labour Left, it is typically expressed in generational terms—‘Why don’t you just die?’ was the shout of one of the new wave ‘pluralists’ when, at a recent aggregate, an old-timer attempted to speak.
Whereas in previous Communist crises, such as those of 1939–40 or 1956, the factory branches remained solid or even increased in strength, while it was the ‘intellectuals’ who were then wracked by doubt, this time it is the industrial comrades who have been ready to put their Party loyalties in question. In their majority they seem to have rallied to the Morning Star. Trade unionists—‘white, male, middle-aged’, as they were recently…
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Lost on the woke left
28 Nov 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, liberalism, politics - New Zealand Tags: free speech, political correctness, regressive left
New Paper: Normalized hurricane damage in the continental United States 1900–2017
28 Nov 2018 Leave a comment
Our major update to the CONUS normalized hurricane loss dataset has now been published, after several years of effort and an intensive review process by Nature Sustainability. Abstract in the image above.
Weinkle et al. 2018.Normalized hurricane damage in the continental United States 1900–2017, Nature Sustainability. (Link)
Email me at rpielkejr at gmail if you’d like a copy. Happy to take any questions via Twitter, rogerpielkejr.
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