Today’s kids are way ahead of our broadcasting regulators and television producers in the way they use both television and digital media. It’s time for a radical rethink of content regulations, quotas, and subsidy for children’s media education and entertainment in their best...
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Politics is about constructing those public goods that are necessary for communities, are a minimum to deal with problems that threaten life itself. In our present situation, the most serious problems are all posed on a global scale, as a result of the scale of our management...
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Regional and Racial Inequality in Infectious Disease Mortality in U.S. Cities, 1900-1948 James J. Feigenbaum, Christopher Muller, and Elizabeth Wrigley-Field #25345 Abstract: In the first half of the twentieth century, the rate of death from infectious disease in the United St...
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A couple of weeks ago I got this email. Dear Prof. Gruen, I’m fifteen years old, I live in Memphis, Tennessee, and I’m very interested in economics. Recently I came across your interview on the Economic Rockstar podcast. I have a blog called Ceteris Numquam Paribus , where I p...
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https://youtu.be/S_SWo3Cj8Yc Herewith my presentation in London "Economic reform thinking as if we'd bothered to do it" and Martin Wolf's commentary on it beginning at around the 40 minute mark. Judging from audience comments, a good time was had by all. You can download the s...
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Cross-posted at the Mandarin . [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="530"] The first image to come up in a search for 'new professionalism'. A very nice image too, especially for Kandinsky lovers like myself.[/caption] Working in and around government for over three decade...
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[caption id="attachment_32524" align="aligncenter" width="1212"] When Ghandi was asked what he thought of Western Civilisation he said it would be a good idea. Ditto democracy.[/caption] In a recent paper , James Fishkin identifies some potential shortcomings of citizen's cham...
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We seem to have a Brexit deal today, which has two important components: free-movement between the UK and the EU ends (no single market) whilst on all matters of trade, the UK indefinitely follows the EU until a new deal is reached (a customs union). The nitty gritty has to be...
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Yes, it is a little over the top isn't it? Anyway, here's Frank's interview with me last Friday night.
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The Big Con - Reassessing the "Great" Recession and its "Fix" by Laurence J. Kotlikoff Abstract: Most economists differ, not on the causes of the Great Recession, but on their relative importance. They concur, though, on the basic problem, namely human, not market failure. Thi...
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In late June this year CEDA asked me to reprise an earlier presentation I gave to them on forecasting. They also asked for a blog post which I also reproduce below. Add one more item to the Overton Juggernaut , my term for that unstoppable agenda of things we keep doing the wa...
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The US political establishment is now firmly of the belief that the US is still the world’s dominant superpower, and that they could easily win a cold-war confrontation with China , just like it overwhelmed the Soviet Union with economic firepower. I think the Americans are ba...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sp3dIyNA2A People you don't like – they're everywhere International Competition and Adjustment: Evidence from the First Great Liberalization by Stephane Becuwe, Bertrand Blancheton, Christopher M. Meissner - #25173 (DAE ITI) Abstract: France an...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1r7TzkFR7ps Konstantin Kisin is a comedian who was born in Russia and emigrated to Britain with his family when he was twelve. And he's a friend of mine whom I met at the inimitable Kilkenomics . Like most comedians he's a thoughtful guy. He's m...
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Grandparents, Moms, or Dads? Why Children of Teen Mothers Do Worse in Life by Anna Aizer, Paul J. Devereux, Kjell G. Salvanes - #25165 (CH ED HE LS) Abstract: Women who give birth as teens have worse subsequent educational and labor market outcomes than women who have first bi...
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As I predicted a few months ago , the US security apparatus is going after China relentlessly, mainly in order to have something to do. As I predicted in 2012, Australia is firmly behind the US and the wider Western alliance that will eventually form a block against China. The...
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Do Equal Employment Opportunity Statements Backfire? Evidence From A Natural Field Experiment On Job-Entry Decisions by Andreas Leibbrandt, John A. List - #25035 (LE LS) Labor force composition and the allocation of talent remain of vital import to modern economies. For their...
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Peer Advice on Financial Decisions: A case of the blind leading the blind? by Sandro Ambuehl, B. Douglas Bernheim, Fulya Ersoy, Donna Harris - #25034 (PE) Previous research shows that many people seek financial advice from non-experts, and that peer interactions influence fina...
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https://youtu.be/5cR96KesAMQ The AIFS puts on a mean Annual Conference. They fussed over us speakers trying to make sure we weren't just a bunch of talking heads. I would have liked to have attended more of it, but had another conference at which I had pontification duties at...
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