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Mini-essays that try to bring a loosely philosophical style of analysis to various topics (insofar as the blog format permits!). Constructive comments are welcome and I will try to improve the relevant post in response. Meritocracy means that those who deserve to, succeed, and those who succeed are those who deserve to. What could possibly be more fair than that? While it seems easy to agree that a functioning and successful society should endorse meritocracy to some extent, a society based on merit alone would not only be impossible to achieve, but might also become more awful the more we tried. What is a meritocracy? It would ...
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Overall, adopted children in the U.S. fare about as well as children in the general population. However, many adopted children bring to their new families a history of adverse early experiences that may make them more vulnerable to developmental risks. About two percent of the U.S. child population is adopted, either from foster care, or through private domestic or international adoption. While adopted children are a small proportion of all U.S. children, at 1.8 million they are a large group. (See Table 1 ) Adoption is the pathway by which many adults start or expand a family, and it is unique in that ...
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On 26 November 2008, the trading of shares in Woolworths Group plc was suspended and the Woolworths and Entertainment UK subsidiaries entered administration . 1 Woolworths Group plc also entered administration on 27 January 2009. The administrators Deloitte & Touche closed all 807 Woolworths stores between 27 December 2008 and 6 January 2009 resulting in 27,000 job losses. On 2 February 2009 it was announced that the Shop Direct Group had purchased the Woolworths and Ladybird names and these would survive as a brand within the internet based shopping company. Cite error: There are tags on this page, but the references will ...
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Mini-essays that try to bring a loosely philosophical style of analysis to various topics (insofar as the blog format permits!). Constructive comments are welcome and I will try to improve the relevant post in response. You might think that the family would be safe from the cold logic of economists but, as Gary Becker long ago demonstrated with the marriage market and children as durable goods, the economic approach knows no bounds! It can ask an economistic question about anything and get an economistic answer. (Whether that's helpful for anything except the publishing record of that ... Read More
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In California alone, social services to illegals cost $20 billion! Keeping criminal illegals in state prisons cost ONE BILLION! Los Angeles County pays out $600 million per year in welfare to illegals! While 47% of those with a job are illegals with stolen social securty numbers. And then there's the MEXICAN CRIME TIDAL WAVE! Mexican gangs all over the state and spreading. TIME TO END THE MEX INVASION? Obama says NO and assaults Arizona and our interests all over the country. WHY THEY REALLY WORK SO DAMNED HARD FOR SO DAMNED MANY ILLEGALS... TO FEED THE CORPORATE MONSTERS THAT ARE THEIR PAYMASTERS! OBAMA, LA RAZA, NARCOMEX ...
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The myth of public goods is based on the belief that there are special things that everybody needs, but nobody will pay for. The priests perpetuating this myth include self-interested professors who spend a lifetime informing young, bright-eyed students about the magical qualities of these special goods that can only be provided by popular people with big guns. The media reports on the provision of these special goods and services as if this violently engineered operating system was mandated from the heavens. The democratic-corporate state is therefore a necessary evil that must impose itself on society, touching ...
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Although most Americans say they are generally satisfied with the quality of their own health care, including 41 percent who say they are very satisfied, it's a different story when it comes to the cost of care. Just one in five are very satisfied with what they pay for health care, while a majority (52 percent) are dissatisfied, including a third who are very dissatisfied. U.S. HEALTH CARE SYSTEM NEEDS� Minor changes 8% Fundamental changes 54% To be completely rebuilt 36% Americans are even more critical of health care costs in the nation as whole: 59 percent are very dissatisfied with the overall cost of health care in ...
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article titled "Fiscal Impacts of Immigration to the United States", Eric S. Rothman and Thomas J. Espenshade made some incorrect statements about my work on the tax-and-transfer-payment situation of immigrants. These statements may mislead the reader and wrongly give the impression that my work was in error or not soundly done. 1. Rothman and Espenshade say that there was an "omission of older immigrant groups" and that this "gives a sense of incompleteness to Simon's findings" (p. 386). In fact, I did not omit any groups. The data on the oldest group were presented in my original published ...
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The Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation in Evanston, Illinois invited Richard Baehr and Paul London to provide alternative views on the wisdom and legality of Israel's blockade of Gaza. The presentations below reflect the order in which the talks were given. I would like to quickly address a few issues: is Israel's blockade of Gaza legal? Is it strategically necessary? Is there a humanitarian disaster in Gaza, that should place it as a top priority among all the areas in the world where human rights advocates should be directing their ...
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GAZA — The beach was teeming with children and their parents, and it seemed the whole neighborhood had come out to kick a ball, fly kites or just sit in the sand as the sun set in the Mediterranean Sea. So Muhammad Ali decided it was the perfect time to start a business, to try to sell corn on the beach. On Monday at the Gaza City port, Palestinians protested against the Israeli blockade of Gaza and in support of ships bound for Gaza from Lebanon. Since the Israeli blockade of Gaza began three years ago, he said, he had been unable to find steady work. So on Monday he piled fresh-picked corn onto the back of a donkey cart, ...
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Are children public goods? Annual conference of the Society for Applied Philosophy,. Birmingham, 29 June – 1 July 2007. The Quality of Life in a Capability ...
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of the Yellow Book. Recommended drugs for each country are listed in alphabetical order and have comparable efficacy in that country. No antimalarial drug is 100% protective and must be combined with the use of personal protective measures, (i.e., insect repellent, long sleeves, long pants, sleeping in a mosquito-free setting or using an insecticide-treated bednet). For all medicines, also consider the possibility of drug-drug interactions with other medicines that the person might be taking as well as other medical contraindications, such as drug allergies. When several different drugs are recommended for an area, the following ...
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Read Lord of the Flies. Granted the book is all about why we need adults but I think it applies. Face it, we're all children and if... Research your answer: Our contributors said this page should be displayed for the questions below. ( Where do these come from ) If any of these are not a genuine rephrasing of the question, please help out and edit these alternates . The government needs to supply public goods for what reason? He government needs to provide public goods for what reason? The goverment needs to provide public ...
Okay - I'm playing the devil's advocate. I have seen a lot of questions regarding the recent laws passed in Arizona reagrding illegal immigration. There are a lot of people for and against the law. I personally am trying to understand why people feel it is okay to allow illegal immigrants to stay in this country illegally. (I am totally for legal immigration and feel our diversity is what makes this Country great) Many responses to other questions "pulled the race card". Putting race aside, putting human rights aside, please answer this question purely from an economic standpoint. "Why is it okay for Illegal ...
