Why America’s Economic Growth May Be (Shh!) Over (Ep. 95)
…RSS feed, listen via the media player above in the post, or read the transcript here.) It is largely based on a recent paper by the Northwestern economist Robert J….
…RSS feed, listen via the media player above in the post, or read the transcript here.) It is largely based on a recent paper by the Northwestern economist Robert J….
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…pastoral, early-20th-century model with millions of small farms producing more ‘natural’ food . . . it would be impossible to feed 300 million Americans, much less the rest of the…
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…was becoming heavily dependent on economic arguments, has become a prolific and well-remunerated expert witness. He has built a 1300-person research shop, LECG, to feed information to him and other…
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…feces, and sex-with-your-parents. Much has changed, fortunately. With the advent of modern neuroscience, the contributions neurochemistry makes to older psychological observations in human behavior are becoming clearer and Kraepelin’s point…
…know how butterflies and moths have sex, because we made a mating chamber for them so the kids could see all the stages of moth and butterfly life. We had…
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…Big happiness differences persist between religious and secular folks even when we correct for income, education, race, sex, and age. Now combine these with the familiar evidence on politics and…
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