Thomas Stratmann, Professor of Economics at George Mason University, and Jonathan Klick, Professor of Law at Florida State University, came out with a study that states:
Incentives matter. They matter even in activities as primal as sex, and they matter even among teenagers, who are conventionally thought to be relatively myopic. If […]
Archive for November, 2005
Nov30th2005
Nov30th2005
Quote Of The Day
Published by in Economics, Education, General, Hispanics (Minority Issues), Vouchers and Wal-Mart. 2 Comments“The current issue of The Freeman includes John Semmens’ “Wal-Mart is Good for the Economy”. It seems that many people need reminding of the simple fact that, absent force, fraud or significant external costs, profitable enterprises are that way for good reasons — they serve people best….Along these lines is the accusation that Wal-Mart’s compensation […]
Nov29th2005
Thomas Sowell On The French Economy
Published by in Discrimination, Economics, Europe, General, Hispanics (Minority Issues) and Minimum Wage. 0 CommentsThomas Sowell looks at minorities in France and minorities in the United States, and compares:
Let us go back a few generations in the United States. We need not speculate about racial discrimination because it was openly spelled out in laws in the Southern states, where most blacks lived, and was not unknown in the North.
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Nov29th2005
“If the alternative is between living in a poor developing country mired by poverty, corruption and inefficient political and market institutions, and a wealthy market capitalist society that rewards human capital investment, the most intelligent residents of developing countries usually incur the greatest opportunity cost of remaining in their country. They are also the most […]
Nov28th2005
Privatizing Water Services In Argentina Saved Lives
Published by in Economics, General and Hispanics (Minority Issues). 4 CommentsEconomist Alex Tabarrok, writing in Marginal Revolution blog, quotes from an abstract to, “Water for Life: The Impact of the Privatization of Water Services on Child Mortality“, by Sebastian Galiani, Paul Gertler and Ernesto Schargrodsky in the February 2005 issue of the JPE.
The abstract states:
While most countries are committed to increasing access to safe […]
Nov28th2005
Quote Of The Day
Published by in (modern day) Liberalism, General, Hispanics (Minority Issues), Minimum Wage and Vouchers. 0 Comments“No one has a greater stake in various school-choice plans, including vouchers, than blacks have, even though school choice is not specifically racial. Social Security is not a racial policy either, but economists who have studied it have long described it as a system that transfers money from black men to white women, given the […]
Nov23rd2005
Radley Balko, writing in Fox News, discusses a compromise on abortion I would accept:
While it’s unlikely that the Founding Fathers anticipated the abortion debate, they did give us a framework around which to govern on issues just like it — highly emotional, high-stakes issues that go to the core of one’s personal values and beliefs. […]
Nov23rd2005
“Among Hispanics, there is little change in popularity from a grade point average of 1 through 2.5. After 2.5, the gradient turns sharply negative. A Hispanic student with a 4.0 grade point average is the least popular of all Hispanic students, and has 3 fewer friends than a typical white student with a 4.0 grade […]
Nov22nd2005
Europe Vs. USA In Treatment Of Minorities
Published by in (modern day) Liberalism, Discrimination, Economics, Europe, General and Hispanics (Minority Issues). 8 CommentsThe economist writes:
In America, the education levels, English-language skills and intermarriage rates of immigrant groups rise over time. So do income, home-ownership and political representation. This is the natural course of assimilation. But it does not seem to work in Europe. Some European countries (including France) do not collect ethnic-based statistics, so hard evidence […]
Nov22nd2005
Quote Of The Day
Published by in (modern day) Liberalism, Economics, FreeTrade and General. 3 Comments“”Liberals” seem have been renamed “progressives” these days, but for some reason they still seem to be hostile to freer trade–although Gene Sperling is a refreshing exception. As a liberal/progressive economist, this hostility to trade has long pained me. Frankly, I don’t see anything “progressive” about protectionism”. –Alan Blinder, the Gordon S. Rentschler Memorial Professor […]
Nov21st2005
In addition to an improved comments section and a new RSS feed, I have also added del.icio.us links to the right hand side of the website, right under ‘Recent Comments’. For those of you that don’t know what del.icio.us links are, they are basically a method to link and save some of your more memorable […]
Nov21st2005
Bill Cosby, in a speech he gave last year to the NAACP, said:
50 percent drop out rate, I’m telling you, and people in jail, and women having children by five, six different men. Under what excuse? I want somebody to love me. And as soon as you have it, you forget to parent. Grandmother, mother, […]
Nov21st2005
The Adam Smith Institute writes:
We don’t usually praise of Bill Gates. We don’t use his operating system, and we think he has held back technological innovation and trapped computer users into a dependency treadmill, requiring them to upgrade constantly into ever more memory-hungry systems. We don’t like his marketing methods, or the uses he makes […]
Nov21st2005
Quote Of The Day
Published by in Economics, FreeTrade, General, Hispanics (Minority Issues) and LatinAmerica. 0 Comments“Regarding U.S. policies towards Latin America, there is a double standard everywhere you look. It is crystal clear where Lula, Chávez, Kirchner, Vásquez, etc. want to go. Many ideas and policies of Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Castro, and Che Guevara are being rediscovered and openly applied by them, while U.S. foreign economic policy continues to […]
Nov20th2005
I have changed RSS feeds from Wordpress default to feedburner, this allows me to include del.ic.ous links and Flickr photos to my feed.
Please update your feedreaders to this new feed for this website.
Nov19th2005
“While it’s perfectly legitimate to criticize my decision or the conduct of the war, it is deeply irresponsible to rewrite the history of how that war began. Some Democrats and anti-war critics are now claiming we manipulated the intelligence and misled the American people about why we went to war. These critics are fully aware […]
