Homines libenter quod volunt credunt
Posted in Religion on Dec 19th, 2012
One of my early New Year’s Resolutions was to stop reading the U of R sustainability blog. But that task is made more difficult when my university actively promotes it. In fact, every so often in the morning email that the University sends to faculty and staff, which includes things like celebrating our Nobel Prize […]
Posted in Environment, Methodology, Religion on Dec 19th, 2012
Matt Ridley does a little bit more investigating on something I’ve been yawping about for a long time now: climate models are no better than macro-econometric models, and furthermore, there is absolutely NO consensus on what the magnitude (or possibly even the sign) of climate feedbacks is: How can there be such disagreement about climate […]
Posted in Economics Problems, Inequality, labor markets, Taxation, You Can't Have it Both Ways on Dec 19th, 2012
Earlier this Spring we examined how one aspect of our tax code (our current debates are like two people fighting over the last egg salad sandwich on the titanic) is anti-family and anti-women. For all of the rhetoric we hear out there about “equal pay for equal work” the idea that you can ever achieve […]
