There are few things that I can really claim from my home state of West Virginia. I prefer valleys and hills to plains. I like forests. Because of […]
economics / politics / review / sociology
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Can't Debate Ideology
Globalism is bad. Communism is a failure. International adoptions are criminal. All of these statements are true – and all are false. There’s a horrid tendency among people […]
business / economics / politics / sociology
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Need a research project?
There is something called the “broken windows” theory in criminal justice. Put simply, the idea is that small amounts of visible social transgression – broken windows, graffiti, and […]
dayton / economics / rant
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Re-Investing in Dayton (or your city, too)
Both today’s letter to the editor and the longer expanded version hint strongly at Keynesian economics. Unfortunately, “Keynesian economics” is as broad a term as “liberal” or “conservative”, […]
economics / feminism / rant
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Connecting dots
Feeling powerless leads to expensive purchases | Science Blog Feeling powerless can trigger strong desires to purchase products that convey high status, according to new research in the […]