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RT if you think this summarises the Anti-Science Left

15 Mar 2015 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economics of information, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, environmental economics, global warming, health economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: Anti-Science left, conjecture and refutation, expressive voting, Green Left, progressive left, rational ignorance, rational irrationality

Red Ed has given up on fighting climate change and introducing a carbon tax

11 Mar 2015 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, public economics Tags: carbon tax, climate alarmism, expressive voting, left-wing popularism, rational ignorance, rational irrationality, UK politics

What a wonderful list of promises from Labour. It's lucky we don't have a deficit or we couldn't afford them. Oh. pic.twitter.com/iD16MavheE

— Tim Montgomerie 🇬🇧 (@montie) March 11, 2015

I am starting to warm to Red Ed. His freeze on energy bills rules out any carbon tax was he cannot introduce a carbon tax while freezing energy bills.

The weight of science in contentious social issues

07 Mar 2015 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in comparative institutional analysis, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: evidence-based policy, expressive voting, rational ignorance, rational irrationality, science and public policy

via via Roger Pielke Jr.’s Blog: Kenneth Prewitt on Science and Congress.

This graph actually shows that there are a lot of grumpy people out there

07 Mar 2015 1 Comment

Reps more likely than Dems to say economic system is fair and hard work leads to success http://t.co/L3swNgbjWp pic.twitter.com/5rFqMS5xf9

— Pew Research Center (@pewresearch) March 5, 2015

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Will a global climate change treaty be signed this year?

27 Feb 2015 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in environmental economics, global warming, politics - USA Tags: climate alarmism, expressive voting, global warming, international public goods, rational ignorance, rational irrationality

Thomas Sowell on the minimum wage

23 Feb 2015 Leave a comment

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Mark Twain on the getting of wisdom

23 Feb 2015 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economics of education Tags: conjecture and refutation, persuasion, political psychology, rational ignorance, rational irrationality

The essence of the Twitter Left

22 Feb 2015 Leave a comment

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George Stigler and that peculiar requirement to dumb down economics for politicians and the public

20 Feb 2015 Leave a comment

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Beware The Man Of One Study | Minimum wage studies

18 Feb 2015 Leave a comment

ht: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/12/beware-the-man-of-one-study/

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Why Don’t Religious People Know More About Religion? » Sociological Images

17 Feb 2015 1 Comment

by Jim Rose in economics of religion Tags: rational irrationality

via Why Don’t Religious People Know More About Religion? » Sociological Images.

It must be true, someone said so on…

11 Feb 2015 Leave a comment

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Every national and local government should include this pie chart with tax assessments

11 Feb 2015 Leave a comment

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Millennials Don’t Know What “Socialism” Means

11 Feb 2015 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economics of media and culture, Marxist economics, politics - USA Tags: economics of socialism, rational ignorance, rational irrationality

via Millennials Don’t Know What “Socialism” Means – Hit & Run : Reason.com.

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