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- Mexicans Work the Longest Hours – NYTimes.com
According to a new report from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, people in Mexico spend more hours of their day working than the people of any other country. - Some Reactions to Equal Pay Day « The Enterprise Blog
Facts the feminist movement doesnt want you to know. - Epistocracy and the Anti-Authority Tenet, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
While you’re waiting for Jason Brennan’s The Ethics of Voting to arrive in the mail, check out his new article in The Philosophical Quarterly. In the book, Brennan merely argues that uninformed and irrational voters should voluntarily abstain. In the article, Brennan makes the stronger argument that uninformed and irrational voters should not be allowed to vote. “Epistocracy,” rule by the well-informed and rational, is at least less unjust than universal suffrage. - Jason Brennan’s The Ethics of Voting, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
The ethics of voting. - Garett Jones on IQ and Economic Growth, David Henderson | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
One implication for countries that want more growth, he said, is to get higher-IQ immigrants. In Q&A, I asked him if he was suggesting something like Canada’s immigration rules that seem to put a higher weight on IQ indirectly or whether he would be happy with a Bryan Caplan solution that would allow pretty much anyone in who wanted to come. In the latter case, I noted, maybe self-selection takes care of the problem: maybe the people who come here, even without a government selection device, self-select and so maybe we end up with higher IQ people anyway. Garett seemed to lean to the former and said that one thing the government could so is, when an immigrant got a Ph.D., “staple a green card to it.” That sure would have saved me a huge amount of hassle and uncertainty with the INS in the 1970s. - Steve Sailer’s iSteve Blog: Moynihan’s Law of the Mexican Border in Action
Reading rates around the country. - CBO looks at RyanCare – Ezra Klein – The Washington Post
As the CBO recognizes, a lot of what Ryan is doing isn’t saving money so much as shifting costs. Poor people and seniors don’t need less health care because Medicare and Medicaid are providing less health care. They just have to pay for more of it on their own. And as the CBO says, it’s hard to imagine Congress simply ignoring their pleas for help - Paul Ryan’s Multiple Unicorns – NYTimes.com
Notice the marked area at the bottom: Ryan is assuming that everything aside from health and SS can be squeezed from 12 percent of GDP now to 3 1/2 percent of GDP. That’s bigger than the assumed cut in health care spending relative to baseline; it accounts for all of the projected deficit reduction, since the alleged health savings are all used to finance tax cuts. And how is this supposed to be accomplished? Not explained. - America’s budget deficit: Mr Ryan makes his mark | The Economist
On the Paul Ryan plan. - Estimating Medicare Taxes Versus Benefits – NYTimes.com
To do the calculations, Ms. Rennane and Mr. Steuerle, who both work at the Urban Institute, assumed that money saved by the government would earn a 2 percent annual return, after inflation. They talk more about this in the Q. and A. - Genetics, Politics, Culture, and the Future, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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