Thinking of rent control? https://t.co/8IW3gS2idn via @JimRose69872629
— Jim Rose (@JimRosenz) August 16, 2018
Is Auckland Action Against Poverty secretly neoliberal on housing habitability laws? @_AAAP_
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in applied price theory, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, property rights, Public Choice Tags: offsetting behaviour, rent control, unintended consequences
What does unconscious bias only get cracking after women’s 30th birthday? Employers, we men, bastards all, must be good at unconsciously guessing ages?!
16 Aug 2018 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, labour economics, politics - New Zealand
@toby_etc reply to Press Council complaint: Inequality Tower 2018 @XTOTL @MaxRashbrooke @TheSpinoffTV
16 Aug 2018 1 Comment
in politics - New Zealand, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics
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History of the Prince of Wales titles. Part II
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Since the time of the House of Tudor and through the times of the House of Stuart, when sons of the Sovereign were granted the courtesy title of Prince, questions of how far in the male line to extend the title was not an issue for grand children of the Sovereign in the male line hadn’t yet occurred. With the accession of King George I in 1714 and the Hanoverians, new situations arose.
First issue that George I faced in the need to regulate titles was with his siblings. Since they were not the sons of a British sovereign, they were German princes and sons of the Elector of Hanover, were they entitled to be prince or princess of Great Britain? King George I, as the “Font of All Honours” was able to grant peerage titles to his youngest brother, Ernest-Augustus. In 1716, Ernest-Augustus visited England where, on June 29…
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Steve Landsburg puts the Coase Theorem to the test
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in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, economics of media and culture, law and economics, property rights, Ronald Coase Tags: Coase theorem
Old white male professors to be fixed by woke “reverse mentors”
16 Aug 2018 Leave a comment
This article is from the Torygraph, and I’ll assume the report is accurate, though you won’t find it discussed at any Left-wing websites. Click on the screenshot below to see the piece.
The new policy:
Male, pale and stale university professors are to be given “reverse mentors” to teach them about unconscious bias, under a new Government funded scheme.
Under the project, white men in senior academic posts will be assigned a junior female colleague from an ethnic minority as a mentor.
Prof John Rowe, who is overseeing the project at Birmingham University, said he hoped the scheme will allow eminent professors to confront their own biases and leave them “feeling quite uncomfortable”.
“What is understood about unconscious bias is that we have all got it, but the more you learn about it and become conscious of it, the more you can act,” he told The Daily Telegraph.
“While…
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Nobel Symposium Ellen Mcgrattan Modern DSGE models: Theory and evidence
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in business cycles, economic growth, global financial crisis (GFC), great recession, macroeconomics Tags: real business cycles
Soda Ban Explained | Op-Docs | @nytimes @EricCrampton
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in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economics of information, economics of regulation, health economics, politics - USA Tags: expressive politics, meddlesome preferences, nanny state, sugar tax, virtue signalling
The 1918 Pandemic: The Deadliest Flu in History
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in economic history, economics of natural disasters, financial economics, health economics
USA Men 2 (Lester) | 100 Years of Beauty – Ep 18 | Cut
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in economic history, human capital, labour economics Tags: economics of beauty
Leaving home is a 50s thing
16 Aug 2018 Leave a comment
in economic history Tags: The Great Enrichment
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