Doctors and their family members are less likely than other people to comply with guidelines for taking medication, according to a study co-authored by MIT economist Amy Finkelstein.
Although social media is blamed for many social ills, the sickness doesn't come from Twitter or Facebook but from how the ruling classes have politicized life itself
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By any reasonable definition of the word, I’m conservative. I believe in fiscal responsibility, governmental restraint and community-based solutions. I view a free and virtuous citizenry as the foundation of a well-ordered republic. And, if that’s not convincing enough, I even wear socks with sandals and proudly sport a receding comb-over.
I’m also consistently flummoxed by the assertion that the Deseret News has a “leftist” agenda.
In my view, such a claim is, well, fake news.
A colleague recently forwarded me a social media post by an individual alleging not only that the Deseret News has a “leftist agenda,” but also that we somehow use The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints the publication’s owner as a Trojan horse “front” to surreptitiously push this “leftist agenda.”
Scott Baker, Aniket Baksy, Nicholas Bloom, Steven Davis, Jonathan Rodden 22 December 2020
Elections can cause economic uncertainty, especially when elections take place in a politically polarised context. This column studies how national election cycles in 23 countries influence economic policy uncertainty, as measured by the share of newspaper articles that discusses uncertainty and economic policy. Economic policy uncertainty clearly rises in the months leading up to national elections. Average economic policy uncertainty values are 13% higher in the month before and the month of national elections than in other months during the same election cycle. In the US, economic policy uncertainty increases are especially pronounced around close and highly polarised presidential elections.