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  • The “Immorality” of Economics

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    Alex Tabarrok writes today, The Moral Inversion of Economic Thinking: In a delightful, short article on Economics and Morality, Timothy Taylor asks why economics has a reputation for leading to corruption: Political science, history, psychology, sociology, and literature are often concerned with aggression, obsessiveness, selfishness, and cruelty, not to mention lust, sloth, greed, envy, pride,…

  • Working Conditions in China: Supply and Demand – Alex Tabarrok

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    Marginal Revolution: Working Conditions in China: Supply and Demand – Alex Tabarrok … The Times articles, part of a larger series, are well written and informative and no doubt they have prodded some changes at certain companies. China, however, is a very big place and the real story of better working conditions is a story…

  • Grand Racist Party?

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    Economist: Grand Racist Party?  W. W. Houston CHRIS HAYES, host of MSNBC's "Up with Chris Hayes", said on air this past weekend, "It is undeniably the case that racist Americans are almost entirely in one political coalition and not the other", by which he means most American racists lean right, not left. This has since…

  • Arguably the worst argument ever

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    The Economist Free Exchange: Arguably the worst argument ever THERE is an entertaining econoblog punch-up brewing between Harvard's Dani Rodrik and George Mason's Alex Tabarrok. It commenced with this post by Mr Rodrik, in which he admits that the theoretical basis for government intervention in areas such as "education, health, social insurance, and macroeconomic stabilisation"…