Podcasts about international comparisons

Does our common understanding of mass shootings help us to prevent them?Blankschaen argues that our common beliefs and media narratives around gun ownership, mental illness, and school policies are unhelpful in preventing future mass shootings.Can we even provide an adequate definition of mass shootings? Should we give up the concept of mass shootings altogether, and focus instead on the particular shooters and victims in each circumstance?Read Kurt's paper here: https://philpapers.org/rec/BLAAMS[00:00] Introduction and Thought Experiment[01:35 ] Exploring the Concept of Mass Shooters[06:56] Challenges in Profiling and Predicting[12:06] Defining Mass Shootings and Intent[24:10] Policy Implications and Conceptual Concerns[28:09] Terrorist Attacks vs. Mass Shootings[29:31] Tailoring Solutions to Different Types of Violence[35:54] Farm Murders in South Africa: A Case Study[40:14] The Role of Guns in Mass Shootings[42:53] Media Influence and Moral Panic[55:18] International Comparisons and Cultural Context[57:55] Conclusion and Final ThoughtsCheck out FeedSpot's list of 90 best philosophy podcasts, where Brain in a Vat is ranked at 15, here: https://podcast.feedspot.com/philosophy_podcasts/

Topics:00:43 Technical Troubles and Audio Adventures01:14 Introducing the Cast: From Velvet Glove to Tech Guy01:43 A Week in Review: From Housing Affordability to Global Politics02:57 Board Games and Gratitude: Quiddler and More06:01 The Luhrmann Case: A Deep Dive into Defamation and Justice18:29 Housing Crisis in Australia: Policies, Problems, and Public Opinion34:41 The Role of Public Housing and Foreign Investment in the Housing Market38:22 Reflecting on Australia's Housing Crisis and Policy Impacts38:47 The Role of Land Costs and Construction in Housing Prices40:52 Government Policies and Their Effect on Housing Affordability41:26 Historical Perspectives on Home Ownership and Policy Changes43:49 The Boomer Generation's Influence on Housing and Retirement47:33 Exploring Solutions to the Housing Crisis and Negative Gearing Debate52:27 The Global Stage: AUKUS, Japan, and International Relations56:12 International Comparisons and the Complexity of Housing Markets01:03:01 The Middle East Conflict: Perspectives, Reactions, and Media Coverage01:19:28 Concluding Thoughts and the Australian Government's StanceTo financially support the Podcast you can make:a per-episode donation via Patreon or one-off donation via credit card; orone-off or regular donations via Paypal orif you are into Cryptocurrency you can send Satoshis. We Livestream every Monday night at 8:00 pm Brisbane time. Follow us on Facebook or YouTube. Watch us live and join the discussion in the chat room.You can sign up for our newsletter, which links to articles that Trevor has highlighted as potentially interesting and that may be discussed on the podcast. You will get 3 emails per week.We have a website. www.ironfistvelvetglove.com.auYou can email us. The address is trevor@ironfistvelvetglove.com.auYou can send us a voicemail message at SpeakpipeWe have a sister podcast called IFVG Evergreen. It is a collection of evergreen content from the weekly podcast. Transcripts started in episode 324. You can use this link to search our transcripts. Type "iron fist velvet glove" into the search directory, click on our podcast and then do a word search. It even has a player which will play the relevant section. It is incredibly quick.

Ali Velshi ponders why many are against Medicare negotiating prices with Big Pharma. Bernie Sanders elaborated. It is the ruling class that objects. --- In a passionate address, Bernie Sanders articulates the urgent need for comprehensive healthcare reform in the United States, highlighting the challenges posed by the pharmaceutical industry and the prevailing opposition from the ruling class. The following points encapsulate the essence of his speech: Healthcare for All: A Basic Right: Bernie Sanders underscores the vital necessity of healthcare as a fundamental right, emphasizing the incongruity of the United States' lack of universal healthcare coverage. He has consistently advocated for a healthcare system that serves every citizen, acknowledging the overwhelming support from the American populace for Medicare negotiating prices with pharmaceutical companies. This aligns with the progressive vision of ensuring that access to healthcare is not a privilege determined by socioeconomic status but a universal right. Pharmaceutical Industry and Greed: Sanders confronts the exorbitant profits amassed by the pharmaceutical industry, which often charges Americans the highest prices globally for essential medications. He challenges the opposition's claims of "communism" and "socialist price fixing," arguing that allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices is a commonsense approach to bring down costs and protect the interests of the American people. By exposing the pharmaceutical industry's immense profits and its role in perpetuating the healthcare crisis, Sanders emphasizes the need for accountability and reform. Corporate Influence and Ruling Class Opposition: Bernie Sanders condemns the influence of the ruling class, including big corporations and the Chamber of Commerce, in thwarting meaningful healthcare reform. He critiques the divisive tactics employed by these interests to maintain the status quo, highlighting how they manipulate public opinion and create divisions among Americans. This aligns with a progressive perspective that seeks to challenge the influence of corporate entities in policymaking and advocate for policies that prioritize the well-being of everyday citizens over profits for the privileged few. International Comparisons and Common-Sense Reform: Drawing comparisons to other developed nations like Canada and European countries, Sanders points out the stark disparities in drug pricing. He advocates for a common-sense approach that aligns drug prices in the United States with those in countries that pay significantly less for the same medications. By emphasizing the reasonableness of this proposal and debunking opposition narratives, Sanders aligns with the progressive belief in evidence-based policies that prioritize the interests of the majority. Healthcare's Impact on Economic Stability: Sanders highlights the economic implications of the broken healthcare system, where millions remain uninsured or underinsured while healthcare costs continue to rise. He asserts that healthcare costs should not be a burden that leads to financial ruin, and calls for a transformation of the healthcare system into one that prioritizes health over profit. This echoes progressive values that emphasize the interdependence of a healthy population and a thriving economy. In summary, Bernie Sanders' impassioned speech sheds light on the urgent need for comprehensive healthcare reform in the United States. His arguments against the pharmaceutical industry's greed, the influence of the ruling class, and the societal divisions they perpetuate resonate with progressive ideals. By advocating for healthcare as a basic human right, Sanders aligns with the progressive goal of fostering a society that prioritizes the well-being of all its citizens. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/politicsdoneright/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/politicsdoneright/support

This week on “The Learning Curve,” co-hosts Cara Candal and Gerard Robinson talk with Dr. Eric Hanushek, the Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University. Dr. Hanushek shares how he first became interested in the economics of education, his plans for the nearly $4 million in funding from the prestigious Yidan Prize, which he […]

This week on “The Learning Curve,” co-hosts Cara Candal and Gerard Robinson talk with Dr. Eric Hanushek, the Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University. Dr. Hanushek shares how he first became interested in the economics of education, his plans for the nearly $4 million in funding from the prestigious Yidan Prize, which he received in 2021, and where he sees... Source

This week on “The Learning Curve,” co-hosts Cara Candal and Gerard Robinson talk with Dr. Eric Hanushek, the Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University. Dr. Hanushek shares how he first became interested in the economics of education, his plans for the nearly $4 million in funding from the prestigious Yidan Prize, which he received in 2021, and where he sees... Source

Next up in our special COVID-19 series on Fireside Chat, we sat down with Stewart Dowrick, CEO of Mid North Coast Local Health District (MNCLHD) in Australia. We discussed the COVID-19 pandemic, which is tracking similarly in Australia and the United States.  Please note: The number of COVID-19 cases and the situation referenced in this episode were based on reported data at the time of the interview and are subject to change.

On May 29, 2019, Justin Bullock delivered a public lecture at National Chengchi University (NCCU) for the Taiwan Institute for Governance and Communication Research (TIGCR). The lecture is titled "International Comparisons of Public and Private Employees." It explores cross-national data from numerous countries to explore how similar or different public and private employees are motivated. The unedited audio from the lecture is provided in this podcast episode. Apologies for the quality of audio in this episode. This lecture can also be found in video format on the TIGCR's youtube page at the link below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQtgfFSLmh4&fbclid=IwAR2ZaYZouuJrCczplOIR7A9bvwmryXiISPl2-d0lnW9dN-otwVftr4uZvF4

Economist Ed Dolan of the Niskanen Center talks about employer-based health insurance with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Dolan discusses how unusual it is relative to other countries that so many Americans get their health insurance through their employer and the implications of that phenomenon for the structure of the health insurance market. Dolan explores the drawbacks of this structure and makes the case for what he calls Universal Catastrophic Coverage.

Editor's Summary by Howard Bauchner, MD, Editor in Chief of JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association, for the March 13, 2018 issue

Listen to all past episodes of the ERRR podcast here. Professor Sharon Chen received her Ph.D. from the Ohio State… The post ERRR #011. Sharon Chen on International Comparisons of Inquiry Teaching appeared first on Ollie Lovell.

Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law Conference PROTECTION ELSEWHERE, BUT WHERE? National, Regional and Global Perspectives on Refugee Law 20 November 2015 Session 2: International comparisons Chaired by Andrew Kaldor AM, Kaldor Centre Founder Comparative regional frameworks - Professor Kate Jastram, Executive Director, Miller Institute for Global Challenges and the Law, Berkeley Law, University of California Detention of asylum seekers and the Israeli High Court of Justice: The absent–present 1951 Refugee Convention - Dr Ruvi Ziegler, School of Law, University of Reading Order out of chaos? Seeking refuge and solidarity in Europe - Emeritus Professor Guy S Goodwin-Gill, University of Oxford

‘Being happy is something you have to learn. I often surprise myself by saying “Wow, this is it. I guess I’m happy. I got a home I love. A career that I love. I’m even feeling more and more at peace with myself.” If there’s something else to happiness, let me know. I’m ambitious for that, too.’ Harrison Ford How happy are you?  This begs the question – how do you know how happy you are? Is it something you can measure? Is it something we should measure – and at what level can we measure it or could we measure it, if it’s possible. At an individual level or what about something bigger, like a county or state level or even a national level. How do you know how happy you are? That’s a bit of tricky question isn’t it? Because we don’t really go around measuring how happy we are - do we? We sort of know it don’t we, that’s even if we stop and think about it which we don’t do most of the time.  We just get on with going about our lives until something notable, good or bad happens, or maybe we plan something so we’re looking forward to it and thinking about it makes us feel happy. Happiness is something we have a feeling for. Websters describes it as a "a state of well-being and contentment." We all know the physical effects of happiness; like smiling and laughing. And there’s also physiological reactions when we’re happy, like increased activity in the brain's left prefrontal lobe and decreased amounts of the stress hormone cortisol in our bloodstream. We often think about happiness in terms of the negative or in retrospect. We realise when we’re not feeling happy. Something happens to make us sad and we look back and think that we were happy then, even if we didn’t necessarily think about it at the time. How happy we feel can frequently change depending on the context. As we talked about in episode 56 on ‘What is Happiness?’, this is reflected by the different types of happiness. The short lived experiential happiness of doing things that make us happy and the longer term underlying sense of wellbeing. So you could have a different answer for ‘am I feeling happy today’ to ‘am I happy with my life’.  If we stop and think about it, we sort of know if we’re happy in the moment or not, or with our overall sense of wellbeing – but is there a way to measure happiness for ourselves and wider communities? How to measure happiness It turns out there are lots of ways to measure happiness and quite a lot of psychologists are doing it. In an interview with the Harvard Business Review Harvard, psychology professor Daniel Gilbert said:  “It’s only recently that we realized we could marry one of our oldest questions - “What is the nature of human happiness?” - to our newest way of getting answers: science. Until just a few decades ago, the problem of happiness was mainly in the hands of philosophers and poets. Psychologists have always been interested in emotion, but in the past two decades the study of emotion has exploded, and one of the emotions that psychologists have studied most intensively is happiness. Recently economists and neuroscientists joined the party. All these disciplines have distinct but intersecting interests: Psychologists want to understand what people feel, economists want to know what people value, and neuroscientists want to know how people’s brains respond to rewards. Having three separate disciplines all interested in a single topic has put that topic on the scientific map.” Measuring happiness is mostly done through happiness surveys where people are asked to rate their satisfaction with aspects of their lives. For example, one of the most critical questions asked in the World Values Survey is: "Taking all things together, would you say you are very happy, rather happy, not very happy or not at all happy?" [source: World Values Survey] This enables comparisons between sections of the population and internationally such as the sophisticated broad ranging survey measuring subjective well being carried out by the OECD, the Better Life Initiative. The OECD survey acknowledges there’s more to life than the cold numbers of GDP and economic statistics. So they created an index which lets you compare well-being across countries, based on 11 topics they identified as essential in material living conditions and quality of life. More than 60,000 users of the Better Life Index around the world have shared their views on what makes for a better life and you can share your own index on what makes for a better life and see how you score on it. In the UK the ONS Office for National Statistics has developed new measures of national well-being, to provide a fuller picture of how society is doing by supplementing existing economic, social and environmental measures. Measuring National Well-Being: Life in the UK March 2015 and another one on International Comparisons, provide a snapshot of life in the UK today across the 10 domains of national well-being. It’s the third annual summary to be delivered by the Measuring National Well-being programme. The tiny country of Bhutan is a champion of measuring national progress not only through gross domestic product, as economists do, but through tracking Gross National Happiness. The Bhutanese government has been surveying it’s citizens since 1971 on their psychological well-being, health, education, living standards and time use. They also track cultural diversity, cultural resilience, quality of governance and community vitality as well as ecological diversity and resilience.As well as asking people about their happiness in the moment and overall life satisfaction, some psychologists have found more creative ways to measure happiness, including monitoring social media for happy tweets, Facebook feelings and Instagram grins. How can you measure your own happiness? If you want to measure your own happiness you can take the numerous multiple choice quizzes available online. They will help you think about where you are across different criteria. Or you can do that with our chart your life exercise, which you will receive if you join our Changeability Starter Kit. This gives you a quick snap shot of where you are now, and is a good place to start.  You can then measure yourself on these scales in a few months time if you want to see if things have changed. Or if you want a quick multiple choice quiz there’s one on the TIME website.  With the 4 key questions that Edward Diener devised for the Satisfaction With Life Scale in 1980 and has been used as the basis for many studies since.  You score yourself on a scale of 1-7 for each orf these statements: In most ways my life is close to ideal The conditions of my life are excellent I am satisfied with my life If I could live my life over I would change almost nothing   Although it’s quick, convenient and interesting to ask yourself these questions, it doesn’t really go anywhere after that. So the best way to measure your happiness is to keep a happiness journal where you record how you feel throughout the day. The emotions you experience at different times. Or you can do an overall summary at the end of the day, but isn’t quite so robust as our feelings and emotions change considerably throughout the day. And that’s the challenge of doing these online quizzes they are literally a snap shot of how you feel in that moment.  What you’re after is a more in-depth realistic assessment, if you’re serious about it, by recording your emotions over at least a week. Episode 59 of the Changeability Podcast Hear us talk about all of this and more in this week’s episode of the Changeability Podcast – on iTunes, Stitcher and TuneIn or the player at the top of this post. Choose happiness and make it happen So what about you? Do you describe yourself as very happy? Comment below. If not do you want to do something about it?  Listen next week for our tips, actions and techniques on how to be happier.  Links Episode 56 What is Happiness http://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/#/11111111111 http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/guide-method/user-guidance/well-being/index.html Changeability Starter Kit Take the TIME happiness quiz The Science behind the smile  Weird ways to measure happiness Changeability private Facebook Group iTunes – to subscribe and leave a rating and review  Thank you Thanks for reading or listening – and if you want to help us out please subscribe to the Changeability Podcast on iTunes and leave us a rating and review – it would be much appreciated.  

1) Abstract: Globalization has a profound effect on the mission and goals of education worldwide. One of its most visible manifestations is the worldwide endorsement of the idea of “education for global citizenship,” which has been enthusiastically supported by national governments, politicians, and policy-makers across different nations. What is the role of international schools in implementing the idea of “education for global citizenship”? How do these schools attempt to create a culturally unbiased global curriculum when the adopted models have been developed by Western societies and at the very least are replete with (Western) cultural values, traditions, and biases? 2) The International comparisons and benchmarking have become a major influence on education policy- making in Central Asia and other post-Soviet states. Joining the international student achievement studies such as PISA, TIMSS, and TALIS have brought significant benefits to participating countries, while also enabling the new political technologies of governing the post-Soviet education space by numbers. International benchmarking, and the “best practices” that come along with it, have contributed to the production of educational knowledge that not only attempts to explain education phenomena but also constructs “norms” embedded in education policies and practices.

Emily Oster of the University of Chicago talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about why U.S. infant mortality is twice that in Finland and high relative to the rest of the world, given high income levels in the United States. The conversation explores the roles of measurement and definition along with culture to understand the causes of infant mortality in the United States and how it might be improved.

Emily Oster of the University of Chicago talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about why U.S. infant mortality is twice that in Finland and high relative to the rest of the world, given high income levels in the United States. The conversation explores the roles of measurement and definition along with culture to understand the causes of infant mortality in the United States and how it might be improved.

Emily Oster of the University of Chicago talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about why U.S. infant mortality is twice that in Finland and high relative to the rest of the world, given high income levels in the United States. The conversation explores the roles of measurement and definition along with culture to understand the causes of infant mortality in the United States and how it might be improved.

Daron Acemoglu of MIT and author (with James Robinson) of Why Nations Fail talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the ideas in his book: why some nations fail and others succeed, why some nations grow over time and sustain that growth, while others grow and then stagnate. Acemoglu draws on an exceptionally rich set of examples over space and time to argue that differences in institutions--political governance and the inclusiveness of the political and economic system--explain the differences in economics success across nations and over time. Acemoglu also discusses how institutions evolve and the critical role institutional change plays in economic success or failure. Along the way, he explains why previous explanations for national economic success are inadequate. The conversation closes with a discussion of the implications of the arguments for foreign aid and attempts by the wealthy nations to help nations that are poor.

Daron Acemoglu of MIT and author (with James Robinson) of Why Nations Fail talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the ideas in his book: why some nations fail and others succeed, why some nations grow over time and sustain that growth, while others grow and then stagnate. Acemoglu draws on an exceptionally rich set of examples over space and time to argue that differences in institutions--political governance and the inclusiveness of the political and economic system--explain the differences in economics success across nations and over time. Acemoglu also discusses how institutions evolve and the critical role institutional change plays in economic success or failure. Along the way, he explains why previous explanations for national economic success are inadequate. The conversation closes with a discussion of the implications of the arguments for foreign aid and attempts by the wealthy nations to help nations that are poor.

Daron Acemoglu of MIT and author (with James Robinson) of Why Nations Fail talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the ideas in his book: why some nations fail and others succeed, why some nations grow over time and sustain that growth, while others grow and then stagnate. Acemoglu draws on an exceptionally rich set of examples over space and time to argue that differences in institutions--political governance and the inclusiveness of the political and economic system--explain the differences in economics success across nations and over time. Acemoglu also discusses how institutions evolve and the critical role institutional change plays in economic success or failure. Along the way, he explains why previous explanations for national economic success are inadequate. The conversation closes with a discussion of the implications of the arguments for foreign aid and attempts by the wealthy nations to help nations that are poor.