@BernieSanders has the type of friends that make you prefer your enemies
22 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, fiscal policy, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, politics - USA Tags: 2016 presidential election, ageing society, cranks, demographic crisis, older workers, quackery, rational ignorance, rational irrationality
The economist costing the economic plan of a 74-year-old candidate forgot there is an ageing society in his labour force participation rate projections.
Source: Gerald Frieldman (2016).
And people vote for @BernieSanders because he is honest
21 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in fiscal policy, income redistribution, macroeconomics, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: 2016 presidential election, cranks, quackery, rational ignorance, rational irrationality
What does it mean to oppose #GMOs and #goldenrice?
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in environmental economics, health economics Tags: antiscience left, cranks, GMOs, Greenpeace, New Zealand Greens, precautionary principle, Quacks
How insightful was The Population Bomb
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in development economics, economic history, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, growth miracles, population economics, resource economics, technological progress Tags: cranks, doomsday prophets
Vaccines by the numbers
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in health economics, politics - Australia, politics - USA Tags: anti-vaccination movement, antiscience left, conspiracy theories, conspiracy theorists, cranks, Leftover Left, New Zealand Greens, quackery, vaccinations, vaccines
Homeopathy explained
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in economics of information, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, health economics Tags: consumer fraud, cranks, homeopathy, quackery, Quacks
The western environmental movement’s role in China’s one-child policy
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in development economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics, labour economics, labour supply, population economics Tags: China, cranks, doomsday profits, doomsday prophecies, one child policy
There are nutters in every line of work
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in labour economics, occupational choice Tags: cranks, quackery, Quacks
Five characteristics of science denial
21 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, environmental economics, health economics Tags: Anti-Science left, climate alarmists, conjecture and reputation, cranks, philosophy of science, Quacks

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