Regan Boychuk British, American, and Russian elites planned global domination through one great war a century ago, but it did not quite work out. Instead, today we approach a third world war to avoid democracy and the rational conservation of resources on a finite planet. It appears imperial monarchs were colluding in 1914 to vanquish […]
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Originally published at Economics from the Top Down Blair Fix If there was an award for the most pernicious scientific idea ever, what theory should get first prize? I would vote for eugenics, a theory that claims we can ‘improve’ humanity through selective breeding. If there was a second prize, I’d give it to human […]
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Abstract Today, human capital theory dominates the study of personal income. But this has not always been so. In this essay, I chart the rise of human capital theory, and compare it to the rise (and fall) of eugenics. The comparison, I argue, is an apt one. Eugenics and human capital theory both focus on […]
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