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The Rise Of Human Capital Theory 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 capital theory. I think of human capital theory as 'eugenics light'. It purges the idea that abilities are innate (and that we should selectively breed the 'fit'). But human capital theory keeps the Nietzschean idea that humanity's success can be attributed mostly to gifted ubermensch. Please share this arti...

Vanguard News Next year in Jerusalem Can you prove the existence of God?” Bismarck was supposed to have replied: “ The Jews, your majesty. The Jews.”   The return of the Jews to the Land of Promise after 2000 years of dispersal is a miracle of our times. Hebrew, a virtually dead language, has been resuscitated. It is the national lingua franca. The Jewish genius has continued to astonish the world. Nearly 70 percent of all science Nobel laureates are Jewish. They include such legendary names as Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, Max Born, Igor Tamm, Lev Landau, Richard Feynman, Vitaly Ginzbu...

Share The German Kaiser once asked his Chancellor, Otto Von Bismarck:“Can you prove the existence of God?”Bismarck was supposed to have replied: “The Jews, your majesty. The Jews.”The return of the Jews to the Land of Promise after 2000 years of dispersal is a miracle of our times. Hebrew, a virtually dead language, has been resuscitated. It is the national lingua franca. The Jewish genius has continued to astonish the world. Nearly 70 percent of all science Nobel laureates are Jewish. They include such legendary names as Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, Max Born, Igor Tamm, Lev Landau, R...

Friday, Jan 22, 2021 When I first considered myself a socialist revolutionary in 1970, I was hounded by free marketers’ challenge: “name me one country where socialism works”. These market fundamentalists would then hold up the most strident expectations for socialism: Everyone is exactly equal with no classes. There is an abundance of goods which are conveniently circulated. Political rule is not dictatorial. All competition is banished. People are working together, collectively and creatively. The state has withered away. Anything less than this was pro...

Commentary This is not an exercise in hindsight—discussing what we could or should have done differently in 2020—but ...