Respecting Ideas, Even Dangerous Ones (Claire Lehmann Pt. 1)
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in liberalism, politics - Australia, politics - USA Tags: Age of Enlightenment, free speech, political correctness, regressive left
Women’s liberation is doing as you are told by society in your career choices
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in discrimination, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice
Ben Shapiro says political correctness breeds insanity
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in politics - USA Tags: free speech, political correctness, regressive left
Stossel: Socialism Fails Every Time
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in development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, growth disasters, income redistribution, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: Cuba, fall of communism
@Ayaan Hirsi Ali on the Regressive Left
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in defence economics, economics of crime, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Rawls and Nozick, war and peace
Bryan Caplan & Charles Murray on “Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids”
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in economics of education, economics of information, economics of love and marriage, health economics Tags: Bryan Caplan, Charles Murray
Truth About The “Rape Epidemic”
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in discrimination, economics of crime, economics of education, gender, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: political correctness
Paul Romer: the view from Economic History
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In this post I write about the connections between Paul Romer’s work, which is essentially applied theory, and the empirical work on long-run economic growth done by economic historians. How was Romer influenced by the work of economic historians? has he influenced economic history? and have his theories been confirmed by the recent work of economic historians? (preview: I will argue that the answer is no).
Addendum shortly after publishing: my point above is not that Romer is wrong in general; in fact some of his ideas *about ideas* are fundamental for us to think about growth in the past. (Read on if this isn’t clear yet.)
Paul Romer’s was a well-deserved and long-anticipated prize. Many predicted he would eventually win, including myself in my very first academic article, written when I was a undergradute and published in 2008. (alternatively, click here for an ungated version). I now…
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An Excellent German film about life in 1980s East Germany
09 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
in movies Tags: East Germany, fall of communism
What Does the New IPCC Report Say About Trends in Extreme Events?
09 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
The IPCC should be reporting a massive revision in the estimated cost of global warming as a percentage of GDP. It has not done that.
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