Category Archives: Economics

Incentives and Food Stamps

Harvard economist George J. Borjas writes: The one thing that economics teaches us over and over again–and the one lesson that those who don’t like the implications ignore over and over again as well–is that incentives matter. Robert Rector and … Continue reading

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Whites Dominate Economics

That sounds nicer than saying Jews dominate economics. Noah Smith from Bloomberg tweets: “I’ve never seen as white-dominated a profession as economics. *All* the top people are white. Is it weird that I just noticed this?” * No asians? * … Continue reading

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Gregory Cochran Reviews New Book On Iq – ‘Hive Mind’

Dr. Cochran writes: Garrett Jones has a new book out: Hive Mind. He argues that “while individual IQ scores predict our independent success moderately well, a country’s average score is a remarkable bellwether of its general prosperity.” Makes sense. I … Continue reading

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Do You Fear That Immigrants Won’t Assimilate?

My former UCLA Economics professor, a baal teshuva (he became an Orthodox Jew as an adult), Russell Roberts, a big inspiration in my life when I was in my 20s, tweets: “If immigrants scare you b/c you think they won’t … Continue reading

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Steve Sailer: Why Are the Public Faces of the Economics Profession So Intellectually Self-lobotomized on Immigration?

Steve Sailer writes: One of the best kept secrets of the 21st Century is how large a role Diversity (in its various manifestations) played in housing bubble and bust of the last decade. So I’ve been slowly collecting studies by … Continue reading

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The Big Short

Comments to the Steve Sailer blog: * I saw the trailer for the upcoming film of Michael Lewis’s “The Big Short.” It looks like the movie will attribute the surge in demand to blond strippers who own 6 houses. * … Continue reading

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Economists Refuse To Go Deeper

Link: Race replacement is not ok. However, there is a widespread belief in the fungibility of man, aka homo economicus. Absolute baloney, but economists kind of believe it. And this is what has been trotted out here. Though they also … Continue reading

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The Merits Of The Free Market

Chaim Amalek: “Yes. And this is why whites who base their politics on free market economics have simply been digging their own graves for over a generation. Look at the ultra orthodox Jews of Brooklyn and environs. Do you imagine … Continue reading

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Lifting up the lazy, shiftless and criminally inclined

Robert Weissberg writes: Americans seem to have an irrepressible urge to uplift the bottom—the lumpenproletariat, to use a fancy word– no matter how daunting the mission. The federal government has spent billions since the mid-1960s (e.g., AmeriCorps) with scant success. … Continue reading

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Whites are 63% of America’s population but 81% of its workforce and they dominate high IQ jobs

I’m shocked at these statistics. I would have thought blacks and hispanics would dominate America’s high IQ jobs. Different average IQ levels for different groups would account for most of the differences. REPORT: Data from the U.S. Census supports this … Continue reading

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