Ronald Coase Part 1: Reconciling Theory with Reality
25 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, history of economic thought, law and economics, property rights, Ronald Coase, Ronald Coase
James Cleverly Needs $4 Trillion a Year For His Sustainable Development Goals!
24 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
By Paul Homewood h/t Dennis Ambler British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly announced this week that the UK will push to unlock global finance and help developing countries invest to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). According to Cleverly, the spotlight will be on improving the global financial system, including making it easier […]
James Cleverly Needs $4 Trillion a Year For His Sustainable Development Goals!
James Cleverly Needs $4 Trillion a Year For His Sustainable Development Goals!
24 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
By Paul Homewood h/t Dennis Ambler British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly announced this week that the UK will push to unlock global finance and help developing countries invest to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). According to Cleverly, the spotlight will be on improving the global financial system, including making it easier […]
James Cleverly Needs $4 Trillion a Year For His Sustainable Development Goals!
Notes for Sunak: Energy Transition Risk Vs. Climate Change Risk
24 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
Two perceptive op eds by Dr. Judith Curry provides thinking pertinent to UK Sunak’s reconsideration of climate policies. Her articles in December and January for Sky News Australia was The faux urgency of the climate crisis is giving us no time or space to build a secure energy future. and Rapid technological innovation – not […]
Notes for Sunak: Energy Transition Risk Vs. Climate Change Risk
Demographic Doom and the Welfare State
24 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
Many nations face a slow-motion fiscal crisis because of demographics. To be more specific, politicians last century created welfare states and social-insurance systems that take money from workers in order to provide pensions and health care to old people. Those decisions were misguided (compared to market-based approaches), but the math sort of worked. After all, […]
Demographic Doom and the Welfare State
September 16, 1701: Prince James, the Prince of Wales claims the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland. Part II.
24 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
Despite the Act of Settlement of 1701, which placed the succession to the throne on Princess-Electress Sofie of Hanover, there were those in England and France who whished that Prince James would succeed Queen Anne if he would convert to the Protestant faith. Between August and September 1710, Queen Anne appointed a new Tory administration […]
September 16, 1701: Prince James, the Prince of Wales claims the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland. Part II.
24 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
in development economics, economics of media and culture, growth miracles
“The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-195…
24 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
in economic history, Marxist economics Tags: China
LINDSAY MITCHELL: Alarming trend in benefit numbers
23 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
While there will not be another quarterly release of benefit numbers prior to the election, limited weekly reporting continues and is showing an alarming trend. Because there is a seasonal component to benefit number fluctuations it is crucial to compare like with like. In the ten week period to September 15, 2023 the number of…
LINDSAY MITCHELL: Alarming trend in benefit numbers
Backpackers Abandon Seriously Injured Friend in Grand Canyon After Calling Sheriff
23 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
In torts, we discuss the “no duty to rescue” doctrine in torts. Under the common law, you are not legally required to assist a person in peril if you had no responsibility for their injury. A recent incident in the Grand Canyon National Park raised some of the underlying issues that we debate in our […]
Backpackers Abandon Seriously Injured Friend in Grand Canyon After Calling Sheriff
Manfred von Richthofen’s First Victory – American Volunteers in WW1 I TH…
22 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
Review of “An Ordinary Man: The Surprising Life and Historic Presidency of Gerald R. Ford” by Richard Norton Smith
22 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
Published earlier this year, Richard Norton Smith’s long-anticipated biography of Gerald Ford is a valuable addition to the small collection of serious biographies of the 38th president. Smith is a biographer and historian who has also served as director of the presidential libraries for presidents Hoover, Eisenhower, Reagan and Ford. With 710 pages of text […]
Review of “An Ordinary Man: The Surprising Life and Historic Presidency of Gerald R. Ford” by Richard Norton Smith
Wind Industry’s Rotten Tale: A Story of Bribes and Underhand Dealings
22 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
Crony capitalism is mostly done undercover; only rarely does its insidious work bubble to be the surface. The wind industry isn’t the only business where cash for favours is the order of the day. But the wind industry is alone in its moralising, ‘shut up, we’re saving the world’ mantra. The narrative upon which it […]
Wind Industry’s Rotten Tale: A Story of Bribes and Underhand Dealings
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