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LeopoldS

Sorting and wage premiums in immoral work - 0 views

www.econ.uzh.ch/...econwp353.pdf

work wage economy

shared by LeopoldS on 13 Oct 20 - No Cached
  • LeopoldS on 13 Oct 20
     
    are we paying more for socially less valued jobs or are "immoral" jobs paying more because of the nature of their work?
santecarloni

Occupy Federal Science: "Transformative" Research Can't Come From Milquetoast | The Cru... - 4 views

blogs.discovermagazine.com/...rch-cant-come-from-milquetoast

science research

shared by santecarloni on 14 Dec 11 - No Cached
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  • LeopoldS on 15 Dec 11
     
    I like this one "The kind of idle pastime that might amuse physicists is to imagine drafting Einstein's grant applications in 1905. "I propose to investigate the idea that light travels in little bits," one might say. "I will explore the possibility that time slows down as things speed up," goes another. Imagine what comments these would have elicited from reviewers for the German Science Funding Agency, had such a thing existed. Instead, Einstein just did the work anyway while drawing his wages as a technical expert third-class at the Bern patent office. And that is how he invented quantum physics and relativity." There is an even more pointer example of the Prussian academy of sciences reviewing the Dr. application of Hertz ...
  • dejanpetkow on 16 Dec 11
     
    Shocking. What is federal research funding for? No, wrong question. Instead maybe: What is federally funded review for?
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