I wasn't especially shocked to discover that "Research conducted over six years shows [...] it is these single-track careerists who are increasingly likely to be vilified, refused jobs and denied promotion because many employers believe them to lack what the study calls 'an essential humanity'." Every person I've ever spoken to on the subject has  ( Read more... )

 
Last week I went off on a bit of a rant about economics being a junk science, and discriminatory to boot. Well, I'm not the only one who thinks that economic modeling fails to produce realistic observations, but it seems to be the case that I'm on my own when claiming that that's a bad thing:

"But it is not the fault of economic analysis that ( Read more... )