Dutch colonialism
08 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
in economic history Tags: age of empires, economics of colonialism
The OG Jeep that Faced Down the Nazis and Won (The Willys MB)
08 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War II
Enola Gay
07 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
I will not pass judgment about the event which involved the Boeing B-29 Superfortress, Enola Gay , there is nothing easier than to judge in hindsight. I try to stick to the facts as much as possible. These facts do actually start in 1937. What is often ignored in the whole debate of the dropping […]
Enola Gay
Lord Liverpool’s Ghost.
07 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
Taking It From The Top: Though more than a century has passed since the outbreak of the First World War, there remains a deeply-embedded fraction of the New Zealand state apparatus which continues to regard New Zealand as simply a loyal cog in a much larger and more powerful imperial machine. Like their forebears, these…
Lord Liverpool’s Ghost.
Science
07 Aug 2023 1 Comment
in economics of education Tags: conjecture and refutation, philosophy of science
New Working Paper: A Methodologically Consistent Measure of Income Inequality in the United States, 1917 to 2020
06 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
I have a new working paper with Phil Magness. In this paper, we show a major methodological inconsistency in the estimates of income inequality produced by Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez for the period from 1917 to 2020. The error is not just a level error but also a trend error. Below is the image […]
New Working Paper: A Methodologically Consistent Measure of Income Inequality in the United States, 1917 to 2020
India has a criminal infested parliament
06 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
in development economics, economics of crime, growth disasters, growth miracles, law and economics Tags: India
Creative destruction
05 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
in economics of information, economics of media and culture
Germany’s Grandeur – Analyzing the War Effort I THE GREAT WAR Week 106
05 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
Dazed & Confused: 5 Things About the ‘Inevitable Energy Transition’ That Make No Sense
04 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
Confused about the grand wind and solar ‘transition’? It’s a sensation experienced by any rational thinker. None of what’s put forward makes even the vaguest sense, once the critical faculties are applied. Jude Clemente selects 5 subjects as a subset and does just that in the piece below. 5 Things I Truly Don’t Understand About […]
Dazed & Confused: 5 Things About the ‘Inevitable Energy Transition’ That Make No Sense
The true nature of American polarization
04 Aug 2023 1 Comment
Adding marital status to the mix, the GOP advantage among married men shoots up to 20 points (59% Republican to 39% Democrat) and shrinks among unmarried men to just 7 points (52% Republican to 45% Democrat). But what most people don’t know, including everyone who works at Politico apparently, is that among married women, Republicans still maintain […]
The true nature of American polarization
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