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Why Nations Fail: Daron Acemoglu interview | The Economist

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by Jim Rose in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, international economics, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: Daron Acemoglu

Charles Murray on Coming Apart

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by Jim Rose in economic history, economics of education, economics of media and culture, gender, health economics, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, unemployment Tags: Charles Murray

Tunnel Warfare During World War 1 I THE GREAT WAR Special

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by Jim Rose in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I

Peace, Revolution and the Treaty of Versailles I BETWEEN 2 WARS I 1919 Part 3 of 4

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by Jim Rose in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I

Some recent milestones

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by Jim Rose in administration

Forensics Expert Examines 20 Crime Scene Investigations from Film & TV | Technique Critique | WIRED

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by Jim Rose in economics of crime, law and economics, movies, television

Corbyn’s Green Manifesto

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by Jim Rose in applied price theory

Prisoners of War During World War 1 I THE GREAT WAR Special

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by Jim Rose in defence economics, laws of war, war and peace Tags: World War I

Fiscal Policy: The Best Case Scenario

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by Jim Rose in applied price theory, budget deficits, business cycles, fiscal policy, macroeconomics, monetary economics

Sea levels are rising in Africa?

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by Jim Rose in economics of media and culture

A map of the future geography of Africa… in 10 million years.
Via @simongerman600, @c_dan4th pic.twitter.com/6xckHTMIW8

— ToughSF (@ToughSf) June 28, 2018

After Charles II Of Spain Died In 1700, His Autopsy Revealed Some Truly Astonishing Results

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by Jim Rose in economic history Tags: Spain

David Friedman – Tecnologia y libertad en un mundo imperfecto

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by Jim Rose in applied price theory, David Friedman, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of information, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, law and economics, property rights Tags: creative destruction

Can discrimination explain this?

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by Jim Rose in discrimination, economics of education

How data disaggregation matters for Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders, from @EdlaganXian & @kavyavaghul https://t.co/jYO1yRpZtB #SEAEqualPay #AAPIEqualPay pic.twitter.com/N1o5RnmBAH
— Equitable Growth (@equitablegrowth) September 12, 2018

The Green Jobs Fallacy

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by Jim Rose in applied price theory

The Spirit Level is plain dodgy and inept in massaging the data too

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by Jim Rose in health economics, poverty and inequality

#1 🍒-picking.

In the Spirit Level, some countries are excluded from the analysis without justification. When including these countries and using the latest estimates available, the core findings of the book disappear. [2/5] pic.twitter.com/9yeTYcV1jn
— Nicolas Sommet 🇺🇦 (@nicolas_sommet) September 27, 2018

So why is the Spirit Level still widely and uncritically cited (see below)? I’m not sure… A political bias, maybe. Anyway, it makes me feel that science is def not self-correcting here.

More to come soon.

🍒 🍒 🍒 End of thread 🍒 🍒 🍒 pic.twitter.com/zWkgZU6ACP
— Nicolas Sommet 🇺🇦 (@nicolas_sommet) September 27, 2018

The War on Prices

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The Bleeding Heart Libertarian

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Coordination Problem

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Libertarian Land

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Arin’s Substack

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David Andolfatto

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Monetary Non-Neutrality

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Reason Magazine

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Thoughts from the North

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My Journey Through the Best Presidential Biographies

Reading the Best Biographies of All Time

A History of the Alt-Right

Econ Prof at George Mason University, Economic Historian, Québécois

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Truth on the Market

Scholarly commentary on law, economics, and more

The Undercover Historian

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Temple of Sociology

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Why Evolution Is True

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A rural perspective with a blue tint by Ele Ludemann

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The Dangerous Economist

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Watts Up With That?

The world's most viewed site on global warming and climate change

The Logical Place

Tim Harding's writings on rationality, informal logic and skepticism

A window into Doc Freiberger's library

The Risk-Monger

Let's examine hard decisions!

Commentary on monetary policy in the spirit of R. G. Hawtrey

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Thoughts on public policy and the media

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Politics and the economy

James Bowden's Blog

A blog (primarily) on Canadian and Commonwealth political history and institutions

Science Matters

Reading between the lines, and underneath the hype.

Economics, and such stuff as dreams are made on

A Venerable Puzzle

"The British constitution has always been puzzling, and always will be." --Queen Elizabeth II

The Antiplanner

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History of Sorts

WORLD WAR II, MUSIC, HISTORY, HOLOCAUST

Roger Pielke Jr.

Undisciplined scholar, recovering academic

Offsetting Behaviour

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JONATHAN TURLEY

Res ipsa loquitur - The thing itself speaks

Conversable Economist

In Hume’s spirit, I will attempt to serve as an ambassador from my world of economics, and help in “finding topics of conversation fit for the entertainment of rational creatures.”

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