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The Conscious Cultivation of Ignorance ⋆ Brownstone Institute
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#agnotology, #IgnoranceCultivation, #AnthropologicalResearch
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#agnotology, #IgnoranceCultivation, #AnthropologicalResearch
We're Entering the Control Phase of the Pandemic
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#PandemicPhases, #PandemicResponse
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#PandemicPhases, #PandemicResponse
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Study: US is an oligarchy, not a democracy - BBC News
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#USA, #oligarchy, #democracy
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#USA, #oligarchy, #democracy
Why is molten lava often covered with zig-zag patterns? - BBC Science Focus Magazine
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#MoltenLava, #ResearchResults, #MoltenWax, #FlowPatterns
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#MoltenLava, #ResearchResults, #MoltenWax, #FlowPatterns
🚨 What are the political consequences of pandemics? 🚨
D. Gingerich & I analyze history’s deadliest #pandemic in a brand new @World_Pol article: “Pandemics & Political Development: The Electoral Legacy of the #BlackDeath in Germany”
doi.org/10.1017/S00438…
#polisciresearch 🧵
D. Gingerich & I analyze history’s deadliest #pandemic in a brand new @World_Pol article: “Pandemics & Political Development: The Electoral Legacy of the #BlackDeath in Germany”
doi.org/10.1017/S00438…
#polisciresearch 🧵
Brief summary (#TLDR): The Black Death (BD) had a significant long-term impact on Germany’s political development. Hard-hit areas introduced proto-democratic institutions; sustained experiences with participative government later helped reject antidemocratic & illiberal parties.
Long overview (starting here): In 1347, Europe was hit by a pandemic that killed 30–60% of its population: the BD. It had a major impact on medieval society which was based on feudalism/serfdom. Yet the BD’s impact varied greatly across space, leading to divergence in its impact.
ST VITUS, MARTYR; FEAST JUNE 15
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1. St Vitus appears in early lists of Christian martyrs, and probably died during the persecution of Diocletian, which reached its climax in 303.
He is a patron saint of Prague, actors,
#StVitus #Christianity #FourteenHolyHelpers
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1. St Vitus appears in early lists of Christian martyrs, and probably died during the persecution of Diocletian, which reached its climax in 303.
He is a patron saint of Prague, actors,
#StVitus #Christianity #FourteenHolyHelpers
2. and his intercession has been invoked against snake bites and sleeplessness. Chiefly, though, he has been associated with St Vitus’s Dance.
Historically this term has been used to describe nervous disorders involving rapid, jerky, involuntary movements;
#insomnia #sleep
Historically this term has been used to describe nervous disorders involving rapid, jerky, involuntary movements;
#insomnia #sleep
3. it has also been applied to epilepsy. Today, St Vitus’s Dance is more austerely defined as Sydenham’s Chorea, a disease which induces grimacing and jerking in children and pregnant women, and which is often linked to rheumatic fever.
Tradition relates that Vitus
#epilepsy
Tradition relates that Vitus
#epilepsy
How do major pandemics affect economic activity in the longer term? My colleagues (Òscar Jordà, Alan Taylor) and I have a new working paper where we answer this question.
#coronavirus #COVID19 #CoronavirusPandemic #BlackDeath #SpanishFlu #SecularStagnation #NaturalRate
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#coronavirus #COVID19 #CoronavirusPandemic #BlackDeath #SpanishFlu #SecularStagnation #NaturalRate
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Findings consistent with what economic theory prescribes? Yes. Real returns down, real wages up….
Paper here: ssingh.ucdavis.edu/uploads/1/2/3/…
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Paper here: ssingh.ucdavis.edu/uploads/1/2/3/…
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We study rates of return on assets using a dataset stretching back to the 14th century, focusing on 12 major pandemic episodes where more than 100,000 people died. We estimate the impulse response of the European real natural rate to a pandemic episode up to 40 years out
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