Jonathan Miller talks about Peter Sellers and Peter Cook
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Review: Up From the Pojects-The Legacy of Walter E. Willams
09 May 2017 Leave a comment
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Dr. Walter E. Williams is an amazingeconomist lesser known than Dr. Thomas Sowell, nonetheless he provided profound influence in my thinking and deserves to be mentioned.
Dr. Williams grew up in West Philadelphia, a poor neighbourhood in a single parent household. Despite their poverty,his mother always made sure to provide for him and his sister enough to be “cultured”. His mother valued education and would fight tooth and nail forher children, which is whyDr. Williams grew up reading books rather than watching television (similarity echoed in Dr. Ben Carson’s childhood). From an early age, he noticed the ghettosprawling mandated by the so called social programmes to improve the lives of the poor actually had devastating effectin the community. Small businessmoved out due to high crime rates, people needed to travel farther to do their business and the cost of having insurance, bulletproof glass, security guard is a direct burden on…
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Economists discover white lies when women are still in dating market made up of high-powered professionals
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in discrimination, economics of love and marriage, gender, labour economics, occupational choice Tags: dating market, marriarge and divorce
Why @JeremyCorbyn will lose #GE2017
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in Public Choice Tags: 2017 British election
Free To Choose in Under 2 Minutes – Episode 1 The Power of the Market
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in applied price theory, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, Milton Friedman, occupational choice, survivor principle Tags: capitalism and freedom
What Is It About Dissolution That Everyone Finds So Confusing?
08 May 2017 Leave a comment
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I’m posing this question seriously, because I genuinely don’t know the answer to it. It truly baffles me.
But what I do know is that Canadian journalists and scholars don’t seem to understand the implications of our various federal and provincial fixed-date election laws, and, interestingly, British journalists don’t seem to understand the radical effects of the Fixed-Term Parliaments Act, 2011 either.
In brief, the Canadian fixed-term election laws do not prevent prime ministers and premiers from advising snap elections, precisely because they all deliberately preserve the authority of the Governor General and Lieutenant Governors to dissolve parliament and provincial legislatures. And both the principles of Responsible Government and the practice over the last 9 years necessarily mean and confirm that since the Governors’ authority is preserved, the first ministers’ authority to advise dissolution is also thereby preserved. Hence, snap elections are still possible, and they have happened on 5…
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Fawlty Towers. O’Reilly.
08 May 2017 Leave a comment
in economics, television Tags: Fawlty Towers, John Cleese
Is the Fixed-term Parliaments Act a dead letter?
08 May 2017 Leave a comment
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The ease with which Theresa May was able to secure an early dissolution last week has led to suggestions that the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011 serves no useful purpose and should be scrapped. Drawing on wider evidence of how fixed-term parliaments legislation works in other countries, Robert Hazell argues that there is a danger that it is being judged prematurely, on the basis of a single episode. Future circumstances in which a Prime Minister seeks a dissolution may be different, and in these cases the Fixed-term Parliaments Act may serve as more of a constraint.
On 19 April the House of Commons voted by 533 votes to 13 to support the Prime Minister’s motion for an early general election, easily surpassing the two-thirds threshold required for dissolution under the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011. In the preceding debate Conservative MPs such as Sir Edward Leigh and Jacob Rees-Mogg argued that the…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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