Why 1/2 Brazilian Women Support Jair Bolsonaro |@NYTimes Dispatches
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in development economics Tags: law and order
How Jazz Musicians Smashed Racial Barriers
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in economic history, Music, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: creative destruction, racial discrimination
@ProfSteveKeen Rory Robertson 40% Australian housing crash bet
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in macroeconomics, politics - New Zealand
Steve Keen lost a bet in 2010 with Rory Robertson about a 40% crash in Australian housing prices. The loser of the bet, which was Steve Keen, had to walk from Sydney to Mount Kosciusko, a mere 200 km, wearing the T-shirt as shown below saying “I was hopelessly wrong on home prices! Ask me how”.
Muammar Gaddafi: The Mad Dog of the Middle East
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in comparative institutional analysis, economic history, energy economics, growth disasters, growth miracles
The temptation — and perils — of inconsistent policy: Finn Kydland at TEDxCibeles
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in applied price theory, budget deficits, business cycles, comparative institutional analysis, currency unions, economic growth, macroeconomics
A Tale of Two Electricities: Cal vs. Texas
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This post reblogs California Vs. Texas In Electricity: Comparing The Two States 1 In 5 Americans Call Homeby Chuck Devore in Forbes. Text in italics with my bolds.
The two most-populous states, California and Texas, are home to one in five Americans. More alike than different in many aspects—diverse population and economy, abundant natural resources—the two states differ in one important respect: policy. With some exceptions, California is progressively liberal while Texas is free market conservative.
These states’ similarities and differences invite comparisons that can be useful in illuminating policy choices among the states and at the national level as well. This essay is one in a series that examines those differences—in this case, electricity and related efficiency.
California policymakers have made aggressive moves towards renewable electricity production and energy efficiency over the past couple of decades. While doing so, they frequently tout the state’s nation-leading electric…
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For 5th time in a year, UKMW prompts media correction to ‘settler-only roads’ lie
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For the 5th time in less than a year, UK Media Watch has prompted a correction in the British media to the false claim that there are “settler-only roads” in the West Bank. The latest such claim was in an op-ed at the Independent by Sophia Brown, a London-based academic (Israel’s assault on Palestinian universities is a threat to human rights and a tragedy for this generation of students, Oct. 22), as we noted in this tweet:
We followed up with an email to Indy editors, demonstrating that there have never been “settler-only” (or “Jews-only”) roads in the West Bank”. Editors upheld…
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Robert Murphy summarises Nordhaus on #globalwarming @jamespeshaw @Greenpeace @OxfamNZ
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in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, development economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: climate alarmists
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