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By Thinking Out Aloud on Jul 23, 2017 in: culture, economics, history, philosophy, religion
Ron Unz has produced two pieces of statistical analysis on ethnicity and crime in the US providing evidence that there is no distinctive tendency among Hispanics to have a higher crime rate, once other factors are controlled for, while there is clear...
The chart above, from the Economic Policy Institute, shows the multiple of corporate CEO salaries over worker salaries. Note that as late as 1978, the average CEO salary was only 30 times as large as the average worker salary in private industry. But...
By Boing Boing on Jul 20, 2017 in: economics, london, property
In a world of expensive urbanization where the spiraling cost of basic shelter has forced ever-more people into debt and fuelled a speculative global bubble of criminal money-launderers who use luxury housing as empty safe-deposit boxes in the sky, L...
By Think Progress on Jul 19, 2017 in: economics, energy
CEO of CSX won’t buy any new locomotives for coal, undercutting Trump’s claims coal can be revived.A CSX freight train that derailed in 2012. CREDIT: AP/Patrick SemanskyThere’s no future in transporting coal, says Hunter Harrison, CEO of CSX f...
By Thinking Out Aloud on Jul 18, 2017 in: books, economics, history
I am a great admirer of work of the C14th Muslim intellectual Abū Zayd ‘Abd ar-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn Khaldūn al-Ḥaḍramī (1332-1406), known as Ibn Khaldun. I gave a paper on his thought to the University of Melbourne Medieval Roundtabl...
By The Mouse Trap on Jul 18, 2017 in: economics
Today’s research summary is about a paper co-authored by Angela Duckworth, that is at the intersection of psychology and economics. Though I have been following behavioral economics a bit, I still found the paper a bit challenging to read and c...
By RedState on Jul 17, 2017 in: Budget, Economics, Economy, Google, Government, Internet, Law, News, Policy, Politics, Science
Radio impresario Rush Limbaugh routinely, rightly identifies a consistent feature of the human condition: The inability to recreate the spontaneous excellence of an earlier event. You’ve likely experienced this. For instance, you awaken on a Saturd...