Sometimes when I complain about the horrible state of the art in social science, and especially in human resource management, senior colleagues tell me that it's near impossible to convince…
Christainsen, Gregory. (2020). Rushton, Jensen, and the Wealth of Nations: Biogeography and Public Policy as Determinants of Economic Growth. Mankind Quarterly. This paper offers a review of some of the…
Gunnar Myrdal, who was Swedish, expresses an early version of the views the media repeat endlessly these days. To give some examples: White prejudice and discrimination keep the Negro low…
Recently, I found a Swedish language report that discusses economic consequences of refugee immigration to Sweden. Ruist, Joakim. 2018:3 Tid för integration – en ESO-rapport om flyktingars bakgrund och arbetsmarknadsetablering.…
I made a new video, sort of as an experiment (with a bad microphone, will get another one for next video). The slides are here. I talk about economics of…
Sweden, the land of feminism, of course constantly demands the government produces reports that prove the sex gap in incomes is caused by evil eyes men. So, the bureaucrats attempt…
I have written a lot about ancestry approaches, generally from a psychometric and genomic angle. However, economists can also play this game. Daniel A. F. Lopes, Geraldo A. Silva Filho,…
After reading a book defending limitations to free trade/protectionism, it was time for something completely different. So I looked around after any current, well-regarded (in their circles) Austrian libertarian economist.…
Goodreads. Libgen. This book is background material for CGPGrey's great short film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU So, if you saw that and are more curious, perhaps this book is for you. If the…
G.M. IQ & Economic growth I noted down some comments while reading it. --- In Table 1, Dominican birth cohort is reversed. “0.70 and 0.80 in world-wide country samples.…