Seattle’s $15 Minimum Wage is Hurting the Workers It’s Intending to Help
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in applied price theory, labour economics, minimum wage, politics - USA, poverty and inequality Tags: offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
Against Empathy
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in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, behavioural economics, defence economics, development economics, economics of regulation, environmental economics, global warming, war and peace Tags: moral psychology
John Stossel – Minimum Wage, Maximum Folly
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in applied price theory, labour economics, minimum wage Tags: The fatal conceit
Women’s Ideal Body Types Throughout History
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in economic history, health economics Tags: economics of beauty
Stossel: Bernie’s Digital Media Empire
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in economics of information, economics of media and culture, entrepreneurship, health economics, labour economics, minimum wage, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics Tags: regressive left
Life Of Brian- 1979 Debate (1/4) hilarious pre-debate interview I haven’t seen before
22 Aug 2018 Leave a comment
in movies, television Tags: Monty Python
Buzz Aldrin on How Apollo Astronauts Were Paid
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in economics of media and culture Tags: moon landing
Murray Rothbard: Dragon Slayer
21 Aug 2018 Leave a comment
Murray Rothbard depicted as a dragon slayer in the April 18th, 1993 edition of the Las Vegas Review-Journal
After reading about this image in Joseph Becker’s article, “Memories of Rothbard at UNLV“, I really wanted to see it. First I looked for it on search engines, but it was nowhere to be found. After that I tried to find a copy of the newspaper that Becker cited in online databases, but all I found was the text of the articles. Frustrated, I checked the LVRJ website, which said to look for copies in the Clark County Library. Their website referred me to another online database that I could not access remotely.
Fortunately, a friend came to the rescue. She volunteered to go to Nevada and manually search through the library’s microfiche archive. She found the original newspaper images and sent them along. Thanks to her, now ancaps everywhere…
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Brief history of Indian Rupee when it was linked with Sterling Pound
21 Aug 2018 Leave a comment
Puja Mehra has a nice piece on the tricky (and difficult to understand) history of Indian Rupee when it was linked with Sterling Pound before and after independence.
The rupee’s depreciation to more than 70 to a dollar just ahead of Independence Day led to historical comparisons of the value of the rupee. These can be misleading, as political freedom did not automatically result in India’s monetary independence in 1947. The rupee’s association with Britain was prolonged by factors beyond India’s control.
On a sterling standard 1931 onwards, the rupee, linked to a depreciating currency, depreciated along with the sterling.
More from the Blank Slate on the anti-science left
21 Aug 2018 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of crime, economics of education, energy economics, health economics, history of economic thought, law and economics Tags: Anti-Science left, IQ
Honesty is the best policy
21 Aug 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, health economics, law and economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: marijuana decriminalisation
A paradox of patriarchy
21 Aug 2018 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, labour economics Tags: gender wage gap, racial discrimination, sex discrimination
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