In the latest in of his excellent series of articles on the gender wage gap, Barry over at Ampersand has made a strong case (as if it needed to be made) for the continued existence of gender discrimination in the work place. Here is an excerpt: What happens if two otherwise identical people, one male [...]
I’ve once again changed how I do my blogroll. Now there are far more sites listed in the menu on the right of this site. Scroll down to see. I did it using a neat trick I found which makes it very easy to add more blogs. So if you have suggestions for new blogs [...]
If you are feeling suicidal, would you write to a column entitled “Dear Economist”? If the answer is yes, then I strongly suggest some major lifestyle changes. But, more to the point, you deserve what you get: Presumably you are contemplating suicide for the usual reason: a net-present-value calculation suggests that the future benefits of [...]
Two recent articles of interest: First, one about a “black man” who discovered that his DNA didn’t contain any of the traits usually associated with Africans. (That’s how I would put it, in contrast to the article, since we all have African DNA.): Joseph was 57 percent Indo-European, 39 percent Native American, 4 percent East [...]