Editor's Notes: Acknowledgments, April 2022 through March 2024
We are grateful to our institutional home and friend the Fraser Institute, Canada’s leading think tank, in particular Jason Clemens, Chris Howey, Cheryl Rutledge, and Venia Tan. For generous support we...
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John Hand on McKinsey Studies on Executive Race/Ethnic Diversity
John Hand discusses his EJW article coauthored with Jeremiah Green, a quasi-replication of a series of studies by the consulting firm McKinsey, on firm performance and executive race/ethnic diversity....
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In Memoriam (.pdf) In this issue (.pdf): Executive diversity and firm performance: Beginning in 2015, McKinsey & Company has released a series of highly impactful studies claiming a positive...
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Michael O'Connor on Sharpe Ratios and Investing
Michael O’Connor is interviewed by David Barker on O’Connor’s major critique of the use of Sharpe ratios in hypothesis testing and investing. O’Connor cautions against relying on Sharpe ratios when...
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The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment: What Do We Learn from Alsan and Wanamaker?
The “Tuskegee Experiment” occurred over the 40-year period from 1932 to 1972. The experiment enrolled 600 Black men in Macon County, Alabama. Of this group, 399 had latent syphilis and 201 were free of...
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Temperature and Economic Growth: Comment on the Published Article by Kiley
In a previous issue of this journal, I commented (Barker 2023a) on a Federal Reserve working paper written by Michael Kiley (2021) about the relationship between GDP growth and temperature. I found...
View ArticleCritique of the U.S. Intelligence Community's Diversity Claims
From the 1960s and 1970s, ‘affirmative action’ for particular demographic groups (not Far Eastern Asians, for example) grew steadily among Western governments, educational institutions, and...
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Glenn Diesen on Russophobia from Cobden's Time to Today
Professor Glenn Diesen discusses Russophobia historically considered. He is the author of Russophobia: Propaganda in International Politics (2022). The discussion takes its point of departure with...
View ArticleVolume 21, Number 2, September 2024
In this issue: Academic Productivity after the CEA: Gordon Tullock wrote that government economists found capable of “firefighting” are assigned to do more of it, “with the result that the higher ranks...
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