Advertising as a Major Source of Human Dissatisfaction: Cross-National Evidence on One Million Europeans
Advertising is bad for you! And not just your wallet!
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Modi’s Win: It Wasn’t the Economy, Stupid!
Voters accepted that authoritarianism would produce security, which neutralised warnings by intellectuals and opposition parties that Modi’s India was heading towards fascism.
Read more...Can Small-Scale Farmers Grow a Healthier Central Valley?
Another reason to promote family farmers.
Read more...The 2018 Midterms: U.S. Census Data on the “Coalition of the Ascendant,” Voter Registration, and Voting
There are many barriers to registering and voting, which in toto amount to optimizing the exercise of the ballot for income.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 5/27/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: World trade, states that depend on China for jobs, Biden, Buttigeig bundlers, Gravel, Sanders in Montgomery, AL, ballot access, rare earths, machine learning, flood buyouts, the apple, GateHouse layoffs, female slave owners, living in your car in Silicon Valley, Venn diagrams, UFOs
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The “Forever Wars” Enshrined: Visiting Mar-SAYLZ
Those whose names are engraved on the wall in Marseilles died in service to their country. Of that there is no doubt. Whether they died to advance the cause of freedom or even the wellbeing of the United States is another matter entirely.
Read more...How Shortening the Work Week Can Help Reduce Carbon Emissions
The four-day week as a management technique vs. cutting back working hours to reduce consumption: One, both, or neither?
Read more...Links 5/26/19
The Electric Vehicle Revolution Will Come from China — not the US
Chinese electric vehicle sales already amount to more than half of the world’s total – and car makers and battery manufacturers are working hard to grow even faster
Read more...Links 5/25/19
Gifts of the Immigrants, Woes of the Natives: Lessons From the Age of Mass Migration
Favoring the cultural assimilation of immigrants and reducing the (actual or perceived) distance between immigrants and natives may be at least as important as addressing the potential economic effects of immigration
Read more...The Faux Revolution of Mindfulness
How the Anglo-American fad of mindfulness bolsters neoliberaism.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 5/24/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Biden and opioids, Buttigieg interview, Sanders campaign, AOC on Congress, DSA, post-terror planning in the UK, durable goods, CA real estate, RVs in Silicon Valley, mobile and retail, sea level, carbon credits, shade, wildflowers, homelessness, serial killers, graph algo, the Post Office
Read more...Beware Billionaires Bearing Gifts
Billionaires’ gifts are too often intended to remake society along their preferred lines.
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