Tag Archives: economics
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Not Evil Just Wrong lesson plan FINALLY published!
Posted on February 20, 2010 by Lene Johansen in Clip Book.I tried to make the Not Evil Just Wrong lessons interactive and hands-on. I focused on science literacy, fact checking, understanding the nature of scientific knowledge, understanding of what happens to science when it steps into the policy scene, and fundamental understanding of economic and political dynamics.
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Lakey’s rosy glasses
Posted on July 13, 2009 by Lene Johansen in Blog.The only thing that places Obama on the right wing of the Norwegian political scale is how much government intervention that is politically possible in U.S. politics. With an electorate that is strong supporters of decentralized government and private solutions, he can only propose so many centralized, big government solutions without reducing his office to irrelevance and certain loss in the next election.
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Game theory for the masses?
Posted on April 9, 2009 by Lene Johansen in Blog.A British game show called Golden Balls are probably teaching daytime television viewers more game theory than they ever thought they would learn. The final round of the show is a classic prisoner’s dilemma between the two final contestants. They call it split or steal.
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Food prices and plant biotechnology
Posted on May 9, 2008 by Lene Johansen in Clip Book.I have a piece in the American Spectator today about the food prices and the need to double our food production by 2050. The commentary includes a brief history of plant breeding and asks why one plant breeding technique should be regulated differently from other methods Food Fracas
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Food Crisis on the Thom Hartman Show
Posted on April 16, 2008 by Lene Johansen in Media.Lene Johansen argues biofuels, food prices, and biotechnology with liberal talk show host Thom Hartmann.
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Food Crisis on Gordon G. Liddy Show
Posted on April 15, 2008 by Lene Johansen in Media.Talking to the G-Man about ethanol, food prices, and ABBA. Food based biofuels are bad for poor people.
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Radio Appearance Foreshadowing the Book
Posted on March 25, 2008 by Lene Johansen in Media.Everyone knows how ethanol increases food prices, but Rooker wanted to learn how anti biotechnology activism hurts consumers, and why there is problems with the consumer acceptance research.
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Climate taxes and unfree laborers
Posted on February 2, 2008 by Lene Johansen in Clip Book.Two more stories published in Norway this week, this time in the political magazine Minerva. The first story is about the Norwegian ranking in the Index of Economic Freedom. We are not doing too well, being in the upper echelons of economies ranked as moderately free, but the really big news is that Norway is [...]
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Tell me how bad outsourcing is again!
Posted on December 15, 2005 by Lene Johansen in Blog.Role-play video games can be time consuming efforts, and the early stages are partly educational and partly frustrating preliminaries. Enter outsourced jobs. Chinese farm boys are evidently making good money on playing through the early stages of videogames for Americans with too much money and too little time. They maximize stashes of gold, stamina, and equipment up to a certain level, when the games American owners take over to finish the campaign. Interesting trend, on a socioeconomic level. I wonder when we will see the AFL-CIO try to maintain these jobs on American soil, I know several teenagers who would kill for this gig.
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We’re rich. You’re not. End of story.
Posted on April 17, 2005 by Lene Johansen in Blog.Life in the U.S. is good, it is better than most anywhere else in the world. That doesn’t mean it doesn’t have its flaws, and it doesn’t mean it can’t get better. It just means it is better than anywhere else. Bruce Bawer makes this very clear with his story from Norway, which the UNDP keep rating on top of the list of living standards.
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