The CIA made a lot of mistakes during the Cold War but keeping a list of Soviet jokes was not one of them. They're now declassified:https://t.co/Eb2WeAu7vq
— Gene Zubovich (@genezubovich) September 18, 2018
Some Russian jokes
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in Marxist economics, Public Choice Tags: fall of communism
Tone deaf, colour blind men with fat fingers shouldn’t be pediatrician dentists? Gender differences limit occupational success?
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Dead Wrong® with Johan Norberg – Why Swedes Vote for Populists
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in economic growth, economics of crime, Economics of international refugee law, income redistribution, international economic law, international economics, law and economics, population economics, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, unemployment Tags: populism, Sweden, voter demographics
Vegans are snobs that quit sooner than vegetarians
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in economics of media and culture, health economics Tags: food snobs, vegans, vegetarians
Behind The Scenes – Making Of A TGW Episode I THE GREAT WAR Special
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in war and peace Tags: World War I
Abortion: How do Americans vote on a divisive issue? | IN 60 SECONDS
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in gender, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: abortion law reform, voter demographics
Maybe trigger warnings have their place
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in applied price theory, development economics, economic history, economics of education, history of economic thought Tags: fall of communism
Glenn Loury and Thomas Leonard (Illiberal Refomers)
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in applied price theory, discrimination, economic history, gender, income redistribution, labour economics, minimum wage, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: regressive left
Which dead macroeconomist is to blame to monetary policy prior to the GFC?
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in budget deficits, business cycles, fiscal policy, global financial crisis (GFC), great recession, macroeconomics, monetarism, monetary economics Tags: Keynesian macroeconomics
Space Guns Don’t Work (But We Built One Anyway)
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in economics of media and culture Tags: space
What is an Ad Hominem Attack? | Argument Clinic | WIRED
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in economics of media and culture Tags: philosophy of science
james buchanan and the stealth plan for insurance copays
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James Buchanan took no interest in political activism. Few have ever heard of him in part because he is a very difficult writer to read and made few specific policy recommendations. Those that he did which range from 100% inheritance tax to everyone gets a universal basic income were not very practical.
I’ve been thinking about James Buchanan again in light of Jennifer Burns’ new critical review of Nancy MacLean’s Democracy in Chains. (Steve Teles and Henry Farrell both defend their own positions — and their independence from Charles Koch — one last time as well.)
I’m done talking about Democracy in Chains, but Buchanan was on my mind today. I don’t know how much direct influence he had on public policy. He hasn’t come up that much in my work, although obviously public choice arguments bolstered the case for deregulation.
Recently, though, I’ve been trying to wrap my head around health policy a little bit, in part to test whether arguments I’ve worked out looking at other social policy domains apply there as well. And here Buchanan plays an interesting — though quite indirect — role.
Health economics as a field only emerged in the 1960s. After federal health…
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A Test of the Tropical 200-300 mb Warming Rate in Climate Models
19 Sep 2018 Leave a comment
by Ross McKitrick
I sat down to write a description of my new paper with John Christy, but when I looked up a reference via Google Scholar something odd cropped up that requires a brief digression.
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