Women gave birth to modern empirical labour economics because men are boring and predictable
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in econometerics, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice
What the pandemic has taught us about science
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The scientific method remains the best way to solve many problems, but bias, overconfidence and politics can sometimes lead scientists astray
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UK Supreme Court hears climate case on Heathrow airport expansion
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A Friends of the Earth lawyer claimed, re. the ruling now being challenged: “It is the first case that has ruled that government plans for a massive infrastructure project are unlawful on the basis of the Paris Agreement,” she said. But that gives a misleading impression of the verdict, as this report shows. Big infrastructure projects haven’t been declared illegal.
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Heathrow Airport is challenging a ruling that quashed plans to build a third runway earlier this year, based on the UK commitment to the Paris Agreement, says Climate Home News.
Heathrow appeared in front of the UK Supreme Court this week in a bid to overturn a judgment that blocked Europe’s busiest airport from expanding.
In February, campaigners claimed a historic victory in the Court of Appeal, which quashed plans for a third runway at Heathrow on climate grounds. The case was brought by litigation charity…
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The War of 1812: the “Forgotten Conflict.” I
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It has been called the “Forgotten Conflict.” The War of 1812 took place at a time when the world at large was preoccupied with the Napoleonic struggles in Europe and elsewhere. In the North American chronology, it fell between the War of Independence and the Civil War, both of which produced libraries full of books. Little wonder it is that the stories of these wars have left little room on the shelves of bookstores for the War of 1812 literature.
No set of trifling circumstances prompted the United States to declare war on Britain in June 1812, however. And, though American leaders drew up blindly unrealistic plans at first, their intent posed a direct threat to the British/Canadian settlers and the native peoples living around the Great Lakes. Battles, steadily growing in intensity, raged on both sides of the border as the names of hitherto unknown officers and warriors became…
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Whitewashing East Germany’s Stalinist Dictatorship
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In my lifetime, perhaps the greatest moment for human liberty took place 31 years ago when the corrupt socialist dictatorship of East Germany lost the will and ability to maintain the Berlin Wall.
Almost overnight, there was hope for the long-suffering people of the so-called German Democratic Republic.
In a spontaneous celebration that still brings tears to my eyes, they joined together with the free people of West Germany to tear down the ugly symbol of Marxist tyranny and oppression.
Even better, the fall of the Berlin Wall was a precursor to the total collapse of the Soviet Empire, thus liberating hundreds of millions of people from the horrific brutality of communism.
But not everybody is happy that the communism wound up on the ash heap of history. In a column for Jacobin, Loren Balhorn wistfully remembers East Germany’s Stalinst regime.
On October 3, 1990, the German Democratic…
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How is France on its Fifth Republic?
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in economic history Tags: constitutional law, France
Alara And Bortus Face-Off In The Ring | Season 1 Ep. 3 | THE ORVILLE
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in television
The Rape of Humanity at Babi Yar – War Against Humanity 019
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in laws of war, war and peace Tags: World War II
The dead are many from the #COVID19 lockdown
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in applied welfare economics, health economics Tags: economics of pandemics, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
How can gender be socially constructed given the revolution in sex roles since 1900?
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in discrimination, economic history, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice
Lingering Legacy: Millions of Toxic Solar Panels That Can’t Be Recycled Destined for Landfills
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Around the globe, millions upon millions of solar panels have reached their use by dates; they can’t be recycled, which means they’re destined for the local dump.
Each panel is a veritable toxic cocktail of gallium arsenide, tellurium, silver, crystalline silicon, lead, cadmium and other heavy metals. As the stuff leeches into the water table, it’s not difficult to imagine the effect on water supplies, the environment and human health.
And it’s not just filling up landfill with toxic sludge – in the mother of all ironies – while they’re above ground, solar panels are sending the mercury northward, adding 3-4°C to the average temperature of the environment in which they are situated.
Well, it all seemed like such a good idea, at the time.
Duggan Flanakin deals with that and a number of other matters which tend to take the shine off solar power.
Solar panels generate mountains of…
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Fiscal multipliers and welfare benefit increases
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in applied price theory, budget deficits, business cycles, econometerics, economic history, fiscal policy, history of economic thought, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics, welfare reform Tags: fiscal multiplier, Keynesian macroeconomics, New Keynesian macroeconomics
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