Claudia Goldin | Women in Economics
09 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, econometerics, economic history, gender, history of economic thought, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: gender wage gap, sex discrimination
Sniper One: The Blistering True Story of a British Battle Group Under Siege by Sergeant Dan Mills (2007)
09 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
‘Why are we always fighting Arabs?’ (One of Danny Mills’s platoon on a visit to the ruins of Al Amarah’s Commonwealth War cemetery, Sniper One, page 93) ‘Fucking get some, you wankers!’ (Attitude of the British squaddie to his Shia Muslim militia opponents, p.142) Americans need no encouragement to start shooting at things. (Astute cultural commentary, […]
Sniper One: The Blistering True Story of a British Battle Group Under Siege by Sergeant Dan Mills (2007)
Claudia Goldin – Why Women Won
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in discrimination, economic history, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: gender wage gap, sex discrimination
MICHAEL BASSETT: BEWARE OF THE MEDIA IN THE HOME-STRETCH
09 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
The election campaign is in its final, frenzied stage. I suspect most people have already made up their minds. Many have already voted. But our left-leaning media are increasingly frantic. The result looks like it is moving out of their reach and they are determined to make one last effort to get Chris Hipkins’ lamentable…
MICHAEL BASSETT: BEWARE OF THE MEDIA IN THE HOME-STRETCH
‘Do enlarged government deficits cause inflation?’ By Michael Bordo.
09 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in economic history, fiscal policy, macroeconomics, monetarism, monetary economics
The Islamofascist death cult of Hamas
09 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
The Palestinian Arabs got a raw deal from their leaders in 1948 when their neighbours decided the right response to the UK decolonising the Palestinian mandate by enabling the creation of Israel and a parallel Arab state was to oppose it. You may or may not agree with the creation of the state of Israel,…
The Islamofascist death cult of Hamas
NZ had been quiet about Israel-Palestine tensions for two years – but Hamas attack prompted our PM to express grave concern
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The PM took time out from campaigning to express his “grave concern at the escalation of violence in Israel and Gaza”. This wording was similar to the wording in the opening sentence of a statement from Foreign Affairs Minister Nanaia Mahuta, who expressed New Zealand’s “grave concern at the escalation of violence in Israel, the […]
NZ had been quiet about Israel-Palestine tensions for two years – but Hamas attack prompted our PM to express grave concern
Orientalism by Edward Said (1978) part 1
09 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
(I believe you pronounce his surname Si-, to rhyme with sky, and -eed; Edward Si-eed.) Orientalism created a big splash when it was published way back in 1978, nearly 50 years ago. It opened doorways into radical new ways of thinking about imperialist history and culture. It has gone on to be translated into more […]
Orientalism by Edward Said (1978) part 1
Union Busted
09 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in labour economics, unions Tags: union power
The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) just filed for bankruptcy because it lost a case with a port operator in Portland. The back story is amazing. The ILWU is one of the most powerful unions in the United States. Since bloody riots in 1934 it has controlled all 29 seaports on the west coast of the […]
Union Busted
Was the B29-Superfortress a failure?
09 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War II
The B-29: America’s Flying Superfortress
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War II
How on Earth Did Winston Churchill Lose the Election Directly Following …
08 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, Marxist economics, war and peace Tags: British economic history, World War II
Law School is No Picnic: Environmental Law Society Pulls References to a Picnic as Offensive
08 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
We have been following the gradual elimination of common terms deemed offensive or microaggressive. The latest is the word “picnic.” After the University of Nevada Las Vegas law school’s Environmental Law Society announced a picnic, it was renamed “Lunch by the Lake” due to “diversity and inclusion” concerns. The ELS was able to avoid a […]
Law School is No Picnic: Environmental Law Society Pulls References to a Picnic as Offensive
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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