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Perry Mehrling's course Economics of Money and Banking https://www.coursera.org/learn/money-banking

The Constitution of Knowledge, by Jonathan Rauch

> YMMV, but if I search for "transgender" on Amazon.com in an incognito window, the very first result is the author's book. My understanding of the author's point is that the book …

As I understand it, conversion requires renouncing your previous faith. If you are referring to the practice of baptizing newborn babies, I don't think it can considered a conversi…

I am also confused by the idea of a theorem that can be refuted. As far as I know, if something can be refuted by experimental evidence then it cannot be a theorem.

"The results published by the IPCC and the official US National Climate Assessment suggest even that global warming will only have only minor effects on the world economy." As the …

I think a new Constitution is the only solution. It could be possible to reform the Spanish State to make it federal or confederal and hopefully this would be accepted by all the p…

The committee of 7 people that drafted the constitution included people from very different ideologies, for example a former member of the Franco government, a Catalan member of UC…

The current Spanish constitution was voted with more than 90% of support in Catalonia. Should that not count as self-determination?

When it comes to macro, it is pretty useless. See for example the polemic caused by this paper by Paul Romer, chief economist of the World Bank: https://paulromer.net/trouble-with-…