Needed in Empirical Social Science: Numbers
29 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in econometerics, history of economic thought
By Aaron S. Edlin and Michael Love: Knowing the magnitude and standard error of an empirical estimate is much more important than simply knowing the estimate’s sign and whether it is statistically significant. Yet, we find that even in top journals, when empirical social scientists choose their headline results – the results they put in […]
Needed in Empirical Social Science: Numbers
The true cost of Labour’s net zero plans is slowly being revealed – and the sums are staggering
29 Jun 2024 1 Comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: British politics, climate alarmism
By Paul Homewood h/t Philip Bratby . At least the Telegraph is starting to dismantle Mad Miliband’s crazy agenda: . Sir Keir Starmer has promised that a new Labour government would decarbonise the UK’s electricity system by 2030 and would, at the same time, reduce average energy bills by up to £300 or roughly […]
The true cost of Labour’s net zero plans is slowly being revealed – and the sums are staggering
The Evolving Economic Role of Women: Goldin’s Nobel Lecture
29 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economic history, economics of education, gender, history of economic thought, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality Tags: gender wage gap, sex discrimination
Claudia Goldin’s Nobel prize lecture, “An Evolving Economic Force,” has now been published in the June 2024 issue of the American Economic Review. Or if you prefer, you can watch the watch the lecture (with more numerous slides!) from the link at the Nobel website. She writes: Women are now at the center of the…
The Evolving Economic Role of Women: Goldin’s Nobel Lecture
Good list
29 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of education Tags: conjecture and refutation, philosophy of science
What does RN stand for in the pending French election?
28 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, economic growth, economic history, fiscal policy, income redistribution, labour economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics, Public Choice Tags: France
The RN intends to move ahead with a proposed law that states as its aim “to combat Islamist ideologies”. It includes measures to make it easier to close mosques and deport imams deemed to be radicalised, and a ban on clothing that “constitute in themselves an unequivocal and ostentatious affirmation” of Islamist ideology. Bardella said […]
What does RN stand for in the pending French election?
Global Warming Myths Debunked by IPCC Expert Gregory Wrightstone
28 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of natural disasters, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmism
What if more CO2 in the atmosphere is good for Mother Earth and beneficial for all life on the planet? What if global warming is not an existential threat to humanity?
Global Warming Myths Debunked by IPCC Expert Gregory Wrightstone
Totally Risible: Wind Industry Couldn’t Power Australia’s Toasters & Kettles
28 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia Tags: wind power
When the wind stops blowing, wind power stops flowing. It’s that simple. If anyone is looking for proof that wind power is always and everywhere entirely dependent on the weather. Here it is. The graphic above comes from the boys over at Aneroid Energy and it depicts the output from every single wind turbine connected […]
Totally Risible: Wind Industry Couldn’t Power Australia’s Toasters & Kettles
Want to Defeat Joe Biden? Look to the 1800 Election and Make Free Speech the Key Issue in 2024
28 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: 2024 presidential election, free speech, political correctness, regressive left
Below is my column in USA Today on why the opponents of President Joe Biden should make free speech the focus of this election. With the Supreme Court taking an off ramp in Murthy v. Missouri on Internet censorship, the free speech community is left, for now, with the political process to protect free speech. […]
Want to Defeat Joe Biden? Look to the 1800 Election and Make Free Speech the Key Issue in 2024
BP freezes offshore wind projects to focus on fossil fuels
27 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: wind power
By Paul Homewood h/t Paul Kolk . BP has put all new offshore wind projects on pause as the oil company’s new chief executive seeks to focus more heavily on fossil fuels. Murray Auchincloss, who became permanent head of the business at the start of the year, has also frozen hiring in the offshore […]
BP freezes offshore wind projects to focus on fossil fuels
Have Swarbrick’s Greens actually had zero environmental impact, and simply just thrown thousands into poverty?
27 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - New Zealand
What has been the greatest source of greenhouse gas emissions in NZ these past six years? The CO2 expelled in hot air from the Greens & their travels to and from Wellington, and around the world? Has the Green Party contributed next to nothing in terms of reducing NZ’s contribution to global emissions, yet added…
Have Swarbrick’s Greens actually had zero environmental impact, and simply just thrown thousands into poverty?
Good test
27 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in managerial economics, organisational economics, personnel economics
The Age of Rage: America’s Anti-Free Speech Movement Will Force Us (Again) To Choose Between Our Rights and Our Rage
27 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - USA Tags: Age of Enlightenment, free speech, political correctness, regressive left
Below is my column on Fox.com on my book and how our current “age of rage” may be the most dangerous for free speech, but it is not our first such period in history. Indeed, the current debate is returning this nation to the very debate that erupted at the start of our Republic. Here…
The Age of Rage: America’s Anti-Free Speech Movement Will Force Us (Again) To Choose Between Our Rights and Our Rage
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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