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New Economics Department Rankings
Mises Wire
Author: James Fogal
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Category: Education
Rabah Amir (University of Arizona, Eller College of Management) & Malgorzata Knauff (Warsaw School of Economics) have published Ranking Economics Departments Worldwide on the Basis of PhD Placement (2005). Here is the abstract: An objective ranking of economics departments worldwide in terms of graduate education is derived. The central idea is
WSJ: Lack of Civil Liberties Breeds Terrorism
Mises Wire
Author: James Fogal
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Category: Philosophy and Methodology
An article in today’s Wall Street Journal quotes a Princeton economist discussing the causes of terrorism: “There is no evidence of a general tendency for impoverished or uneducated people to be more likely to support terrorism or join terrorist organizations than their higher-income, better-educated countrymen,” he said. The Sept. 11 attackers
Government Attack on Prostitution ends in woman’s death
Mises Wire
Author: James Fogal
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Sad news this morning ( here and here ) that a lady involved in the “high end” prostitution business killed herself because of government prosecution — she knew her life was over since she would be in prison for the best years of her remaining life (from her perspective). Her mother found the “D.C. Madam” hanged in the shed — with a note