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So Labour’s NEC have decided to “interpret” the rules in Corbyn’s favour.
Those who wrote them made it abundantly clear they were meant to create a level -playing field for all nominees and, crucially, to ensure a ‘filter’ of minimum support in Parliament for any Labour leadership candidate (incumbent or not). But that didn’t seem to bother the majority of Labour’s NEC.
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Anantha Narayanan of cricinfo is helping me think through statistics like very few have. His previous two articles trying to figure consistent batsmen and consistent bowlers were superb. The main idea behind both was to look for measures other than the popularly used average to measure performances of batsmen and bowlers.
In his third piece, he digs deeper to evaluate bowlers. There is always this criticism that some bowlers top averages by taking most wickets against weak opposition. This is usually targeted against Murali in particular . This is biased in many ways as even Warne took most wickets against English sides whose record against spin was always poor.
So, he tries to figure quality of wickets and even quotes economics:
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in economics of regulation, politics - New Zealand, urban economics Tags: housing affordability, land supply, zoning
Source: IMF Global Housing Watch.
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in economics, economics of love and marriage, law and economics, movies Tags: racial discrimination
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in politics - USA, public economics Tags: envy, superstars, taxation and entrepreneurship, taxation and investment, top 1%, top 10%
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in economics of regulation, politics - New Zealand, urban economics Tags: housing affordability, land supply, zoning
Source: IMF Global Housing Watch.
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in Alfred Marshall, history of economic thought
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in constitutional political economy, economic history, Public Choice
Lord Mandelson, another founder of New Labour, told The Independent:
Labour went through a near-death experience in the 1980s. We turned ourselves round but the effect of Margaret Thatcher was to remind the Labour Party that it had to listen to the public and not just its activist base in order to be re-elected. In particular, we had to speak to the aspirational working class to whom Lady Thatcher appealed and who we had to win back.
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