Celebrating humanity's flourishing through the spread of capitalism and the rule of law
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in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, history of economic thought
When the truth is ugly, people lie. Psychologists call this “Social Desirability Bias.” Human beings exaggerate their patriotism and piety, their altruism and loyalty, their intelligence and their tolerance. Social Desirability Bias (SDB) is embedded in language itself: When someone asks, “Would you like to come to my party?,” you refuse with “Sorry, I can’t”…
How to Make *Defending the Undefendable* Defensible
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At this link you’ll find two letters from Harvard administrators about the war. The first, from October 9, is signed by virtually all Harvard administrators and is what the tweet by Pinker below, with the linked letter, is aimed at. Harvard faculty have taken severe issue with what the Harvard administrators said. The second statement, […]
Harvard weasels on the Israel/Palestine conflict; many of its scholars push back
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in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
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The Centers for Disease Control reports that 645,000 Americans died from opioid overdoses from 1999 -2021. As the CDC points out, the problem has hit in three waves: a rise in prescription opioid overdose deaths starting in the late 1990s; a rise heroin overdose deaths starting in 2010; and what appears to be an ongoing…
Reminder of the Ongoing Opioid Epidemic
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in economic history, International law, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: maps, Texas
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More from Thomas Sowell on Social-Justice Fallacies
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I was very excited to read that Claudia Goldin (Harvard University) was awarded the 2023 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (aka the Nobel Prize in Economics) on Monday, “for having advanced our understanding of women’s labour market outcomes”. There are several reasons I was excited. First, it is welcome…
Nobel Prize for Claudia Goldin
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While I’m by no means an uncritical worshiper of the Israeli government, neither will I blame the war and its carnage on Israel’s “apartheid” policies. If there is an apartheid state among the two, it’s surely Palestine, which won’t allow Jews to live there (in contrast, I was just in Israel and saw that Jerusalem […]
Another reason why Palestine is largely responsible for its own plight: its leaders get rich taking money from the people
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Below is my column in the New York Post on reports that Special Counsel Robert Hur has finally interviewed President Joe Biden on allegations that he removed and retained classified material going back to his time as a United States senator. The problem facing Hur could be what to do if he actually finds evidence […]
The Neutron Prosecutor: How Special Counsel Hur May Prove the Ultimate Punchline in Washington
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in discrimination, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: gender wage gap, sex discrimination
I’ve written several times about the issue of the gender pay gap, mostly to point out that our friends on the left are wrong when they assert that there is pervasive and significant sex discrimination in wage levels. When debating this issue, the first thing I ask people is whether businesses want to maximize profits. […]
Understanding Gender Economics
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in liberalism, Marxist economics Tags: free speech, political correctness
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in economics of education, liberalism, Marxist economics
The assertion that all human knowledge is equally valid and the university is a site of power contestation makes it easier to understand the abandonment of fundamental academic principles, not least that of academic freedom (Doug Stokes in “Against Decolonisation” pp. 83-84). Becoming Ethno-institutions? As New Zealand Universities move further towards becoming ethno-institutions we state…
JOHN RAINE, DAVID LILLIS and PETER SCHWERDTFEGER: Universities or Indoctrination Centres?
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
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