Reading the final chapters of Orlando Figes’ excellent and highly readable history of Russia, about the rise of Vladimir Putin and the lead-up to the war with Ukraine, I found myself growing more sympathetic to Putin’s accusations of western hypocrisy, and began to make a list of examples. Putin is a dangerous monster, but sometimes […]
Vladimir Putin and western hypocrisy
Vladimir Putin and western hypocrisy
21 Oct 2026 Leave a comment
in defence economics, development economics, economic history, growth disasters, International law, laws of war, war and peace Tags: Afghanistan, economics of colonialism, Iraq, Russia, Ukraine
Ridley: The forecaster’s paradox
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in economic history, economics of media and culture, entrepreneurship, financial economics, industrial organisation
Why does nobody see new technology coming?By Matt Ridley. He is a British writer who has a Ph. D. in zoology.My last post was an AI generated discussion between Jules Verne and Mary Shelley on the future of technology and how it would affect people.Ridley explains how hard it is to predict the future. Many technologies…
Ridley: The forecaster’s paradox
Dr. Douglas M. Kelley: Psychiatrist of the Nazi Mind at Nuremberg
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in defence economics, health economics, laws of war, war and peace Tags: Nazi Germany, The Holocaust, World War II
Dr. Douglas McGlashan Kelley was a U.S. Army psychiatrist who became renowned for his psychological evaluations of high-ranking Nazi officials during the Nuremberg Trials. His work not only contributed to the fields of psychiatry and forensic psychology but also provided a rare glimpse into the minds of those responsible for the atrocities of the Holocaust […]
Dr. Douglas M. Kelley: Psychiatrist of the Nazi Mind at Nuremberg
World Cup pay gap: Here’s why it’s justified | FACTUAL FEMINIST
20 Oct 2026 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, gender, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, poverty and inequality, sports economics Tags: gender wage gap
Not A Right to Silence Issue
20 Oct 2026 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: 2026 general election, crime and punishment, law and order
How Politicians Misunderstand Highly Nuanced Legal Concepts David Harvey writes – The National Party announced a policy that proposes to remove the right to silence that can be invoked by adults who may (or may not) have information surrounding the cause of death of a child under 12. The term “right to silence” has a […]
Not A Right to Silence Issue
“Why Was the Fed Created?” with @GeorgeSelgin
20 Oct 2026 Leave a comment
in business cycles, economic history, financial economics, great depression, history of economic thought, macroeconomics, monetary economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: monetary policy
Texas Court Refuses to Enforce Pakistan Court’s Divorce Judgment, in $100M-Marital-Community-Asset Case
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in discrimination, economics of love and marriage, economics of religion, gender, law and economics, property rights Tags: marriage and divorce, Pakistan
From Azhar v. Choudhri, decided today by the Texas Supreme Court: A man who has lived in Houston since he… The post Texas Court Refuses to Enforce Pakistan Court’s Divorce Judgment, in $100M-Marital-Community-Asset Case appeared first on Reason Magazine.
Texas Court Refuses to Enforce Pakistan Court’s Divorce Judgment, in $100M-Marital-Community-Asset Case
Albert Speer: The Liar Who Was Believed
19 Oct 2026 Leave a comment
in defence economics, International law, laws of war, war and peace Tags: Nazi Germany, The Holocaust, World War II
Albert Speer must have been one of the biggest cowards of the Third Reich. He refused to take responsibility for his actions and kept claiming he wasn’t aware of the Holocaust. However, he was instrumental in getting the concentration camps built, and he kept the war machine going. Albert Speer is said to have prolonged […]
Albert Speer: The Liar Who Was Believed
The Federal Lands: An Economic Property Rights Perspective
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in economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, law and economics, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, public economics Tags: tragedy of the commons
The US federal government owns and administers 472,892,659 acres or 21% of the land area of the lower 48 states, the country’s largest landowner. The resource is held and managed as a collective resource, the Federal Lands, through political and bureaucratic interpretation of the Multiple Use principle and generally, the biological aim of maximum sustained-yield.…
The Federal Lands: An Economic Property Rights Perspective
The Costs and Benefits of Monopoly
19 Oct 2026 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of regulation, history of economic thought, industrial organisation
Some Progressives Tried To Abolish the Tipped Minimum Wage. Now They’re Backtracking.
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in applied price theory, economics of regulation, labour economics, minimum wage, politics - USA, poverty and inequality Tags: offsetting behavior, regressive left, unintended consequences
Policymakers across the country are confronting the unfortunate—and predictable—economic results of prohibiting restaurants from paying servers a lower base wage supplemented by tips.
Some Progressives Tried To Abolish the Tipped Minimum Wage. Now They’re Backtracking.
Caturday felid trifecta: Cat breeds that can’t be rehomed; cat taste testers; Pasadena’s CatCon; and lagniappe
18 Oct 2026 Leave a comment
in cats
We have three items today. The first, from AnimalsAroundTheGlobe, describes 19 cat breeds that, so the author claims, bond so much with their staff that they can’t subequently find new staff. Click to read: An excerpt: Most people think cats are aloof, coolly indifferent little roommates who “don’t really care who feeds them.” That myth…
Caturday felid trifecta: Cat breeds that can’t be rehomed; cat taste testers; Pasadena’s CatCon; and lagniappe
The blockade is working
18 Oct 2026 Leave a comment
in defence economics, energy economics, international economics, resource economics, war and peace Tags: Iran, Middle-East politics
Erick Erickson writes: Crude exports from the Persian Gulf are back at pre-war levels. J.P. Morgan puts the 10-day average at 17.5 million barrels a day, which is 98 percent of where it stood before the war. Goldman Sachs estimates the region exported 19 million barrels a day over the past week. Brent has come…
The blockade is working
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