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The effect of the Covid-19 pandemic on human well-being So here, we are, trapped in a lockdown due to the worst pandemic of the last 100 years. But is it actually a human tragedy? Or are people better at coping with the pandemic than one might think? What, in other words, is the impact of
Der Beitrag The effect of the Covid-19 pandemic on human well-being erschien zuerst auf Martin Schroeder.

This is the third in our series of remembrances on the late scholar Susan Sell. Professor Susan Sell was a world class scholar. But even though one of the papers she wrote (about using ideas strategically) was very influential in my personal intellectual development, I don't want to say something about that. The thing I […]

Michael Ganslmeier (London School of Economics and Political Science) has posted Are Campaign Promises Effective? on SSRN. Here is the abstract: In democracies, political parties promise to expand social benefits to attract voters in the lead-up to elections. However, we...

Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment bans anyone from holding any federal office who has taken an oath to uphold the Constitution and who then breaks that oath by engaging in "insurrection or rebellion against the same." Donald J. Trump is precisely such a person. Trump took the Presidential oath of office at noon on…

Yuan Hao (University of California - Berkeley, School of Law) has posted The Rise of Centaur Inventors and the Concept of Constructive Conception (Journal of the Patent and Trademark Office Society (2023 Forthcoming)) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: We...

Here’s the case for imposing a tax on sugar-sweetened beverages: 1) Obesity is a major public health problem, through its effects on diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, asthma, certain cancers, and mental health; 2) Consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages is an outsized contributor to obesity; 3) Taxing sugar-sweetened beverages will raise the cost that consumers pay, and thus … Continue reading The Limited Effects of Taxes on Sugar-Sweetened Beverages
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A common enough statement these days is that the young of today are buying their first house later than did the young of our own youthful times. This does have the advantage of being a true statement. But it is also worth musing over why this is happening.Yes, obviously, there is the price of housing - we really do need to blow up the Town and County Planning Act 1947 and successors, kablooie - and so on. However, there's something else here which makes this delay a mechanical certainty.The Times runs a piece about a lady who didn't go to university and has bought at the age of 23. And that is the crux of the matter. Again, we agree there are other influences, but the crux of the particular point we wish to make here. Back 50 years some 10 to 12% of the population went on to university. Today that appears to be very close to the 50% target proclaimed. We've therefore an extra 40% or so of the population delaying their entry into the world of work and earning by at least that 3 years. There's also that little point that professional salaries tend to start lower than blue collar ones, it being in the middle and later years of career that they soar above.So, yes, some substantial portion of the young have less money than the generations before them. Thus they're buying their homes later. Note that this happens however university is financed, whatever other influences there are on the economy. A huge portion of the age cohort now takes years longer to work and earn. Therefore the things bought by work and earnings are bought later.A surprise that really, isn't it?We should therefore be wary of those insisting that the system must change to deal with this problem. Because it has been caused - in part at least - by that previous system change. If it's all so awful - people delaying buying their first house - then why not attack the root cause, too many people going to university first?

Die Minderheitsregierung von Ministerpräsident Bodo Ramelow steht aktuell vor der Verabschiedung ihres Haushalts für das Wahljahr 2024. Dazu ist sie, wie bei allen von ihr eingebrachten Initiativen auf Stimmen der Opposition angewiesen. Vor diesem Hintergrund stellt sich gegenwärtig die Frage, ob der Ministerpräsident mittels der Vertrauensfrage den Landtag disziplinieren kann.

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It’s a standard story at this point: work-from-home seems to be establishing itself as commonplace in many companies–at least in the “hybrid” form where many or most workers come into the office 3-4 days each week, but work from home the remaining time. For many workers, part of the benefit is avoiding a commute to … Continue reading Earning the Commute: Effects of the Pandemic on Real Estate
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Michigan had a historic midterm election following its first redistricting process under the Independent Redistricting Commission. The Commission set out to create districts with a reasonable threshold for the Black communities preferred candidates to win, even as these districts had a lower makeup of people of color.

T. Wolff (Amsterdam Law School, University of Amsterdam) has posted Cogency, Seriousness, Cohesion, and Importance: Assessing the Strasbourg Case-Law on Religion or Belief (Oxford Journal of Law and Religion, 2023) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: In Campbell and Cosans...

Police services exist to uphold the rule of law. They can only do so if their policing model is based on protection of human rights.

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There is no doubt that climate change is already being felt in Small Island Developing States (SIDS) like the Caribbean.