Thread with excerpts from Charles Murray's "Losing Ground" (1984), a book on the failure of US welfare and social policy 1950-1980 to achieve its goals.
"...We find that narrow election of a Republican prosecutor reduces all-cause mortality rates among young men ages 20-29 by 6.6%. This decline is driven predominantly by reductions in firearm-related deaths." drive.google.com/file/d/1aEfIlS…
Both East and West Bloc countries had fast catch-up growth (towards the US) after WWII, which scared the crap out of US policymakers. But West Bloc catch up growth was much stronger from every starting point. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1923149…
There's a strong correlation between academic test scores (national IQ) and growth, controlling for years of education, and almost none between years of education and growth controlling for test scores. Cognitive Capitalism and the Case Against Education threadreaderapp.com/thread/1833975…
In experimental settings, blacks of both parties and white Democrats favor black criminals over white ones in sentencing and pardoning decisions, while white Republicans have no racial preference threadreaderapp.com/thread/2025253…
Thread with excerpts from Charles Murray's "Losing Ground" (1984), a book on the failure of US welfare and social policy 1950-1980 to achieve its goals threadreaderapp.com/thread/2027392…
"It should always be firmly remembered that all efforts aimed at uniting Russia and restoring the monarchy in it are detrimental to our interests. Conservative politics are not an export commodity."
Here I will collect some data on repression, the law and the general state policy of tsarist Russia and the Russian White Guard. The materials will be in Russian, use a translator.