‘Biological Clocks’, Import Competition, and the Gender Gap in Earnings: The China Effect
Why did American women stop putting off having children? Dimished opportunities due to China import competition played a significant role.
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How Books and Bookshops Improve Our Mental Health – And Why We Must Protect Them
Books as therapy.
Read more...Let’s Crush the Woke Plutonomy! An Interview + Review of The Populist’s Guide to 2020: A New Right and New Left are Rising by Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti
How the ordering of the world to suit the 1% – also known as plutonomy – has generated long-overdue “populist” pushback.
Read more...What Viktor Frankl’s Logotherapy Can Offer in the Anthropocene
Frank: “Man’s search for meaning is the primary motivation in his life and not a ‘secondary rationalisation’ of instinctual drives.”
Read more...Porkfest! Tallying How Much the Pentagon Really Costs
Yes, sports fans, Pentagon spending is even worse than you imagined.
Read more...More Than 9 Million People Use Freecycle Instead of Buying New
A bona fide sharing “economy”: Freecycle plans to add a lending and borrowing tool to encourage people to share with friends and neighbors.
Read more...Informative Transgressions
Is it just me, or are more people engaging in social transgressions so they can be heard?
Read more...New Deal, New Patriots: How Roosevelt’s Welfare Programmes Made America Great Again
Who’d have thunk it? Having goverment do more for citizens, such as New Deal programs, leads to citizens willing to do more for their county.
Read more...Freedom from Fossil Fuels is Good for Your Health
Ending our reliance on fossil fuels is not only good for the planet and future generations. It also saves lives here and now, not just in the far future.
Read more...Why No Retired Generals Oppose America’s Forever Wars
How generals promote top-level groupthink.
Read more...To Tackle Inequality, We Need To Start Talking About Where Wealth Comes From
How to combat cultural beliefs that justify extreme inequality.
Read more...Another Sign of Social Decay: Seniors Alone, Unable to Care for Themselves
More grim facts about seniors show the costs of weakened social bonds and communities.
Read more...Psychologist Explains Why Economists—and Liberals—Get Human Nature Wrong
Why moral psychology can help us see ourselves and each other more clearly than economists’ homo economicus.
Read more...Developing Countries Showing America Up
America isn’t a very comfortable place.
Read more...Stunning Sinn Féin Win Upends Ireland Politics
Sinn Féin is on its way to shaking up Ireland.
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