
Dead Wrong® with Johan Norberg – Resource Scarcity or Abundance?
08 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, energy economics, environmental economics, health economics, technological progress Tags: pessimism bias, The Great Enrichment
From an interview 25 years ago: how progress infuriates
26 Mar 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economic history, economics of education, economics of love and marriage, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality Tags: pessimism bias, regressive left

The left denies science mostly for reasons of solution aversion?
25 Mar 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of education, energy economics, environmental economics, health economics, law and economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: anti-foreign bias, anti-GMO movement, anti-intellectualism, anti-market bias, cognitive psychology, pessimism bias, political psychology, regressive left

Pessimism in a World of Increasing Abundance (Steven Pinker)
17 Mar 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, Public Choice Tags: pessimism bias, The Great Enrichment
Why are GMOs Bad? @SciShow
25 Feb 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, economics of education, economics of information, economics of regulation, environmental economics, fisheries economics, health economics, law and economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: anti-GMO movement, Anti-Science left, pessimism bias
Public Opinion for Libertarians – Bryan Caplan (2010)
20 Jan 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economics of education, economics of information, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics Tags: anti-foreign bias, anti-market bias, make-work bias, pessimism bias, rational irrationality
Why do progressives hate progress? | Steven Pinker
19 Jan 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, economics of media and culture, growth miracles Tags: pessimism bias, The Great Enrichment
Are the richer getting richer, poor getting poorer? @Ocasio2018 @SenSanders
30 Dec 2018 Leave a comment





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