The other Anglo exceptionalism
Economists are fond of talking about the specialness of the United Kingdom back when it kicked off the industrial revolution. Similarly, USA is doing remarkably well by some metrics compared…
Economists are fond of talking about the specialness of the United Kingdom back when it kicked off the industrial revolution. Similarly, USA is doing remarkably well by some metrics compared…
I've previously written about scientific misconduct by country, but what about good conduct, that is, (good) science? There are various ways to count this. The simplest is to count the…
David Friedman, a self-described "anarchist-anachronist-economist" and author of The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism (on my to-read list) has written a criticism of the hereditarian position on…
Men constitute the vast majority of the fighting power of a country. When women make inroads by political forcing, the results are often comical or disturbing, depending on your level…
Abstract In this commentary I explain how mean differences between normal distributions give rise to different percentages of the populations being above or below a given threshold, depending on where…
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13587028-unlearning-liberty http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=21a52e674d9a13997e55b8a12581f4a4 I just have to blog about this book. Normally when i review books i have a number of quotes from it. Not this one. It is not becus…