10 years ago today Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg and his college friends http://t.co/IVFDFvu2VM—
History Pics (@HistoryPixs) February 04, 2014
Facebook started 10 years ago today
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Habeaus Corpus Act passed in England today 1679
27 May 2015 Leave a comment
Habeaus Corpus Act (strengthening person's right to challenge unlawful arrest) passes in England #OnThisday in 1679. http://t.co/MAYp7ttLg1—
✍ Bibliophilia (@Libroantiguo) May 27, 2015
Personal Retirement Accounts Are Great…but only if You Can Stop Future Politicians from Confiscating the Accumulated Wealth
27 May 2015 Leave a comment
Most Western nations have huge long-run fiscal problems because of unfavorable demographics and misguided entitlement programs.
That’s the bad news.
The good news is that dozens of nations have fully or partially shifted to mandatory private savings as a pro-growth way of modernizing bankrupt tax-and-transfer Social Security systems.
But good news in the short run doesn’t mean good news in the long run if greedy politicians decide to loot the wealth accumulated in personal retirement accounts.
That’s already happened in Argentina and Hungary, and now it’s happened in Poland. Here’s part of a Financial Times report about the government stealing money from private pension funds.
Poland’s government on Wednesday took an axe to part of the country’s pension system in a bid to bolster public finances. Premier Donald Tusk said that part of the country’s obligatory pension system run by private funds would be dramatically revamped, with 120bn zlotys ($37bn)…
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New data on gender-segregated sociology
27 May 2015 Leave a comment
Four years ago I wrote about the gender composition of sociology and the internal segregation of the discipline. Not much has changed, at least on the old measures. Here’s an update including some new measures (with some passages copied from the old post).
People may (or may not) want to be sociologists, they may or may not be accepted to graduate schools, thrive there (with good mentoring or bad), freely choose specializations, complete PhDs, publish, get jobs, rise to positions of leadership, and so on. As in workplaces, gender segregation in academic sociology represents the cumulative intentions and actions of people in different institutional settings and social locations. It’s also the outcome of gender politics and power struggles. So, very interesting!
A report from the research folks at the American Sociological Association (ASA) got me thinking about this in 2011. The conversation revived the other day when someone asked ASA Vice President Elect…
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Voters think raising the minimum wage is more pro-growth than business tax cuts
24 May 2015 Leave a comment
My one blog on Russell Brand
24 May 2015 Leave a comment
Via @PrivateEyeNews http://t.co/w3IMNRViJJ—
Emily Gray (@missemilygray) May 15, 2015
The rise and rise of working billionaires
23 May 2015 Leave a comment
Health and safety has come a long way with rising incomes
23 May 2015 1 Comment
Electricians working on the Eiffel Tower, Paris, 1937 http://t.co/bpQD6dp2OS—
Classic Pics (@classicepics) May 16, 2015
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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