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Tue, 07/02/2023 - 01:11
I denna nyutkomna bok presenterar Mikael Priks och Jonas Vlachos — professorer i nationalekonomi vid Stockholms universitet — en genomgång av viktiga metoder ekonomer har till sitt förfogande för att göra empiriska analyser av stora och aktuella samhällsfrågor. Med utgångspukt i ekonometriska och statistiska modeller diskuterar man vilka olika identifikationsansatser  som används för att undgå […]
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Tue, 07/02/2023 - 01:00
Don’t say a word about your Monday Visual images of collapsing and collapsed buildings are horrible. A magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck Turkey and Syria before dawn Monday. A severe aftershock struck at midday. Early numbers (headlines keep shifting) are over 1,500 dead and climbing, per a Guardian report: CNN meteorologist Chad Myers explained what makes this type of quake different from those that strike the Pacific Rim: The 7.5 aftershock was “an earthquake in itself,” Myers told CNN’s This Morning. “It would have been the strongest earthquake since 1999 in the region.” We always talk about the epicenter, but in this case we should talk about the epi-line. Two massive tectonic plates – the Arabian and the Eurasian – meet underneath Turkey’s southeastern provinces. Along this fault line, “about 100 miles from one side to the other, the earth slipped,” said Myers.  Seismologists refer to this event as a “strike slip” – “where the plates are touching, and all of a sudden they slide sideways,” said Myers.
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Tue, 07/02/2023 - 00:00

Business Vulnerable

Beach Tragedy

Garden Party Murder Mystery

Fish Tank Chic

Mocktail Attire

Whimsical Police Auction

Semicolon Formal

Traffic Court Casual

Last Dinner as a Family Before You Announce Divorce at Dessert

Destination (Final)

Disney Adult

Eighth Grade Semi-Formal

Rae Dunn

White Tie-less

Woodstock ’99

Frenemy

Boho Christmas

New Coke

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Mon, 06/02/2023 - 23:23

Στην Αβάνα, προσκεκλημένος της Κουβανικής κυβέρνησης, ανέλυσα τη μετάβαση από το νεο-ιμπεριαλιστικό μοντέλο, με το οποίο ο παγκόσμιος καπιταλισμός κέρδισε τον Ψυχρό Πόλεμο (1971-2008), στο σημερινό τεχνοφεουδαρχικό μοντέλο το οποίο πυροδοτεί έναν Νέο Ψυχρό Πόλεμο – κι ο οποίος, με τη σειρά του, καθιστά απολύτως αναγκαίο ένα Νέο Κίνημα Αδεσμεύτων που θα επεξεργαστεί, και θα […]

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Mon, 06/02/2023 - 23:11

How much of Shell’s record US $40 billion profit was due to the Ukraine war and freezing Russia out of the market? If you apply the “excess deaths” methodology we became familiar with during covid, comparing profit against a running average of the previous five years, we get a figure of about $25 billion “excess […]

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Mon, 06/02/2023 - 22:57

Το 2022 μας έφερε πόλεμο, μας έφερε ακρίβεια, νέα υποχώρηση δημοκρατικών θεσμών, νέες κακουχίες για τους πολλούς εν μέσω πανηγυρισμών και απίστευτης αισχροκέρδειας των πολύ λίγων, μας έφερε όμως και κοντά σε ανθρώπους που αντιστέκονται, που οι αγώνες τους μας ενδυναμώνουν, μας εμψυχώνουν έτσι ώστε το 2023 να κάνουμε αυτά που πρέπει να κάνουμε υπέρ […]

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Mon, 06/02/2023 - 22:30
The Journal of the History of Philosophy has awarded its 2022 best article prize to Karolina Hübner (Cornell). Professor Hübner won the prize, which recognizes the best article published in the journal in 2022, for her, “Representation and Mind-Body Identity in Spinoza’s Philosophy“. Here’s the abstract of the article: The paper offers a new reading of Spinoza’s claim that minds and bodies are “one and the same thing,” commonly understood as a claim about the identity of a referent under two different descriptions. This paper proposes instead that Spinoza’s texts and his larger epistemological commitments show that he takes mind-body identity to be (1) an identity grounded in an intentional relation, and (2) an identity of one thing existing in two different ways. The prize comes with an award of $1500. A list of previous winners of the award can be found here. (via Deborah Boyle)