Bachelors of Advocacy: The Rise of Activism over Academics in US Higher Education
31 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
Below is my column in The Hill on the rise of advocacy courses and degrees in higher education. Activism has always been a valued part of our colleges and universities. Indeed, many departments have long incorporated advocacy subjects in their course of study, including in law schools. My concern is the degree to which advocacy […]
Bachelors of Advocacy: The Rise of Activism over Academics in US Higher Education
Americans and the Holocaust
30 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA, war and peace Tags: The Holocaust
Americans and the Holocaust is an exhibition at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC, which opened on 23 April 2018. Before I go into the details of this exhibition, I want to mention one of the few Americans, Eddy Hamel, who was murdered during the Holocaust. Eddy Hamel was the first Jewish player, and […]
Americans and the Holocaust
War of the Worlds-October 30-1938
30 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
It’s Sunday evening, you turn on the radio and the news breaks that planet Earth is invaded by Mars. So what do you do? You panic of course. Well that was the case for many when they switched on the radio on October 30,1938. By the end of October 1938, Welles’s Mercury Theatre on the […]
War of the Worlds-October 30-1938
Wind Industry Outraged at Government Refusal to Deliver Even More Subsidies
30 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: celebrity technologies, wind power
It takes real audacity for the most heavily subsidised ‘industry’ on earth, to demand even more. And it takes real courage for the governments who have been handing out massive subsidies, without question, to reject demands for more of the same. Which is where the New York State Public Service Commission (PSC) comes in. Led […]
Wind Industry Outraged at Government Refusal to Deliver Even More Subsidies
Israel wants peace
30 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: Israel, Middle-East politics, war against terror
Ripping down the “kidnapped” posters
30 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
One act that is absolutely reprehensible, unjustifiable, and downright sick is the ripping down of posters and fliers showing pictures of the hostages taken by Hamas on October 7. No matter what you feel about what’s going on in Gaza right now, there’s no justification for ripping down posters calling attention to Jewish (and non-Jewish) […]
Ripping down the “kidnapped” posters
Real ESG
30 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in financial economics Tags: efficient markets hypothesis
If you care about corporate social impact, start measuring consumer surplus. From the NBER:An Economic View of Corporate Social ImpactHunt Allcott, Giovanni Montanari, Bora Ozaltun & Brandon TanWORKING PAPER 31803ISSUE DATE October 2023The growing discussions of impact investing and stakeholder capitalism have increased interest in measuring companies’ social impact. We conceptualize corporate social impact as the…
Real ESG
Monetary policy and estimated excess demand
30 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
In my post last week on ANZ’s note on the balance of payments, I included this chart from the latest IMF WEO (numbers finalised late last month). On the IMF’s read we had the most overheated advanced economy this year taken as a whole. ANZ themselves followed up with this chart (As a reminder, the […]
Monetary policy and estimated excess demand
2023 Swiss election: minor technical problem leads to major embarrassment
30 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
Like most European countries, Switzerland uses proportional representation (PR) to choose members of the National Council, the lower house of the country’s federal legislature. However, the Swiss system has distinctive characteristics which require a special procedure to determine the nationwide party percentage shares, and a minor technical problem during the federal election held last Sunday, […]
2023 Swiss election: minor technical problem leads to major embarrassment
Maverick: A Biography of Thomas Sowell by Jason Riley Book Review
30 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, development economics, discrimination, economic history, economics of education, gender, history of economic thought, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Thomas Sowell, urban economics
I was skeptical of learning about Sowell because he leans conservative, and I was curious to learn about Sowell because he leans conservative. The last few years I’ve grown sympathetic to the political left because I got tired of conservatives seeming hatred for all things “left.” After reading this book I think a lot of […]
Maverick: A Biography of Thomas Sowell by Jason Riley Book Review
Florida Moves to Ban Pro-Palestinian Student Group from Campuses
30 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, war and peace Tags: free speech, Middle-East politics, war against terror
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s administration has ordered state universities to ban a pro-Palestinian student organization, Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP). The state has denounced SJP as supporting a “terrorist organization” after the massacre of Israelis by Hamas. I have previously written how Hamas is morally and legally a terrorist organization. However, this move would, […]
Florida Moves to Ban Pro-Palestinian Student Group from Campuses
University of California Professor Threatens Pro-Israel Journalists and Their Families
29 Oct 2023 1 Comment
in economics of education, liberalism, Marxist economics Tags: free speech, political correctness, regressive left
The University of California at Davis is embroiled in a controversy involving one of its faculty threatening “zionist journalists” in a violent tirade on X. UC Davis Professor (and undergraduate adviser) Jemma Decristo posted the screed on October 10th referencing the homes and family of those who support Israel as possible targets. The university is […]
University of California Professor Threatens Pro-Israel Journalists and Their Families
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