The Happiness Curve and Economics

The Happiness Curve and Economics

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How would Austrian economics reconcile the Easterlin Paradox with the principle of methodological individualism, particularly when aggregate measures like national wealth fail to reflect individual variations in happiness and preferences? Similarly for the non-austrian economists that visit this sub… Since there is a favored view of government intervention in the market to alter GDP or wealth/inequality metrics how would you address the Easterlin Paradox if economic growth does not always lead to greater individual happiness? I’m reading The […]

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The Math on Mass Deportation Doesn’t Add Up

The Math on Mass Deportation Doesn’t Add Up

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David J. Bier President-elect Donald Trump campaigned on “Mass Deportation NOW!” His justifications for the necessity of this policy were easily dismissed by experts. New immigrants aren’t behind a murder spree, aren’t driving up crime rates, aren’t eating our pets, aren’t taking “black jobs,” and—in many cases—aren’t even here illegally. One area that is more difficult to assess, but also rarely mentioned by Trump: how mass deportation would affect U.S. government debt. , If Trump is looking for […]

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Androids Dreaming of Electric Sheep, or It's Hallucinated Turtles All the Way Down

Androids Dreaming of Electric Sheep, or It’s Hallucinated Turtles All the Way Down

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My UCLA colleague John Villasenor pointed out that Googling De Keersmaecker, J., & Roets, A. (2023) Deepfakes and the Illusion of Authenticity: Cognitive Processes Behind Misinformation Acceptance yields: Readers of the blog may recall that De Keersmaecker, J., & Roets, A. (2023) Deepfakes and the Illusion of Authenticity: Cognitive Processes Behind Misinformation Acceptance is one of the hallucinated—i.e., nonexistent—articles cited in the AI misinformation expert’s Kohls v. Ellison declaration I blogged about Tuesday. But Google’s AI Overview seems to think […]

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Why Asian women earn more than white men?

Why Asian women earn more than white men?

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If Asian women earn more than white men, people think that Asian women are competent. Yet when black women earn less than white men, people say that it’s because of structural racism. I think this inconsistency drives me nuts. The pattern is the left simply wants to blame racism for any kind of inequality and race gives them excuses. I can jokingly say that Asian women are sugar babies. The thing is sugar babies earn far more than […]

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"Devemos ser gratos por cada processo que enf... Rômulo Stumpo

"Devemos ser gratos por cada processo que enf… Rômulo Stumpo

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“Devemos ser gratos por cada processo que enfrentamos, por cada desafio que moldou nosso caráter e por cada lição que nos faz crescer. Assim como o ouro precisa passar pelo fogo intenso para que suas impurezas sejam retiradas, também somos colocados no fogo para que toda sujeira seja removida de nossa vida. É no calor das provações que somos purificados, e hoje somos um reflexo do cuidado e transformação de Jesus. Que toda honra e glória sejam dadas […]

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Dos 31 ministros do STJ, metade tem familiares que atuam em tribunal

Dos 31 ministros do STJ, metade tem familiares que atuam em tribunal

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Dos 31 ministros do Superior Tribunal de Justiça (STJ), 15 têm familiares que atuam como advogados em processos na Corte. São 24 filhos, sobrinhos, enteados e mulheres que advogaram em 4.406 ações, das quais 889 ainda tramitam, de acordo com o portal UOL. + Leia mais notícias de Política em Oeste Esse número representa 0,3% dos 331.932 processos no tribunal. Mas, segundo a reportagem, essa quantidade pode ser maior, uma vez que os parentes dos ministros podem representar seus clientes […]

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How To Ban Lame-Duck Pardons

How To Ban Lame-Duck Pardons

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President Biden has pardoned his son Hunter for all federal crimes committed from 2014 through yesterday. That’s not just for the crimes for which Hunter has already been charged, but for anything he did (or may have done) during the last ten years. Granting this pardon was something the President had pledged not to do in June, while he was still a candidate for reelection (“I abide by the jury decision. I will do that and I will […]

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