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@jewndahalfmen Glad to hear that

Yes there is - a lot tied up with our pointless president

They’re appointed by select group - university graduates - so usually very far left

They’ve no power but still very vocal, trying to feel important

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@paddyjogorman Great piece

Paddy note that there’s a minimum % of govt ad spend that has to be in Irish

It’s state mandated waste!

Not to mention there’s already an Irish language channel, yet they put the ads on RTE…

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@yuanyi_z You can thank the lobbying power of the Law Society and Bar Council, they're determined to keep their cosy industry cosy ad infinitum

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@akhivae I went to the local Catholic church once for mass - Indians must have been 20%

Any I speak to are from Kerala

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@akhivae They all work - mostly in tech or laptop jobs

Most very recent arrivals, usually on good incomes. Usually a couple with 1-2 kids.

They buy houses in new estates, usually middle class ones in Dublin

They speak good English - ideal immigrants imho

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@ideabrowser He is a fraud lol

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@wwwojtekk That's true of the entire field of behavioural economics

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@sc_cath Behavioural Econ is far softer than the rest of economics.

Post-07 there was demand for an alternative to mainstream econ.

Ariely, Gino, Kahneman etc supplied this demand

It was always obviously wrong to any real economist

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@michael_c_grant @JohnHolbein1 Did you have any more contemporaneous writing on this?

Someone should write a book on how economics profession lost its way post-07, overtaken by a loss of confidence (‘new economics’ and behavioural) then fraud, mostly to justify lefty policies

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@razibkhan @adambeneden @danariely It’s not a real field, it’s mostly fraud

The sad part is how many students spent time studying, when they could have studied something useful (macro,io,micro)

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@jtrothwell @albouy Also with Acemoglu?

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End Ok we

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@elidourado @JerusalemDemsas Acemoglu also didn't cite the sources for his ideas on Roman and Germanic culture in The Narrow Corridor

Not a new idea!

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@JerusalemDemsas His work on institutions was sloppy - ignored India/China, and how institutions arose

Why Nations Fail was popular with lefty media was that it deemphasised culture

He recanted much of it - he now emphasises culture (see The Narrow Corridor and his pod with Alice Evans)

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@ondakondratiev @Fullantho He stole the idea that a hybrid German-Roman culture lead to European political institutions and development

He never cites anyone for it

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@RichardHanania That’s pretty ahistorical!

Affluenza affected American elites long before the republican establishment lost to TP/MAGA

Lefty’s gained huge clout post-08

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@razibkhan They’re feminine and help make the guys non-threatening to the menopausal women these scammers target

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@Ulmer62336950 Are those the latest UN PPP?
If it's 2057, where would the pop peak?

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@RyanWeather @grok how should people prepare