Cranking This War Up to Eleven – Hideki Tojo – WW2 Biography Special
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in defence economics, laws of war, war and peace Tags: World War II
Why Does Racial Inequality Persist? | Glenn Loury & Adaner Usmani [The Glenn Show]
29 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, health and safety, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, minimum wage, occupational choice, occupational regulation, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, unemployment, unions, welfare reform Tags: child poverty, family poverty, The fatal conceit
Cashless Debit Card is 20% cash still | Department of Social Services, Australia
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Markets, Firms and Property Rights – Ronald Coase
29 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, economic history, economics of information, economics of regulation, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, law and economics, property rights, Ronald Coase, Ronald Coase, Ronald Coase, theory of the firm
Tesla battery manufacture/R&D should be state owned. Put renewable energy battery backup innovation back by decades @Greens
28 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, energy economics, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, global warming, industrial organisation, Marxist economics, politics - Australia, Public Choice Tags: creative destruction, privatisation, solar power, wind power
Tanker stowaways: Seven men arrested over ship’s ‘hijacking’
28 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
Seven people have been arrested on suspicion of seizing control of an oil tanker, police have said.
The men were detained when military forces stormed the Nave Andromeda which was thought to have been hijacked off the Isle of Wight on Sunday night.
Sixteen members of the Special Boat Service (SBS) ended a 10-hour stand-off which started when stowaways on board the ship reportedly became violent.
Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said there had been a “threat to life”.
Hampshire Constabulary said the seven men were being held on suspicion of “seizing or exercising control of a ship by use of threats or force under Sections 9(1) and (3) of the Aviation and Maritime and Security Act 1990”.
“All 22 crew members are safe and well and the vessel is now alongside in the port of Southampton,” a spokesman said.
Investigators are now speaking to the ship’s crew to establish what…
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“In Pursuit of Happiness” by Angus Deaton
28 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, economics of education, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics Tags: The Great Escape
Constitutional Scholarship or Political Activism? The Role of the Academy Following the Coalition-Prorogation Crisis of 2008
28 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
Introduction
The line between academia and scholarship on the one hand and punditry and activism on the other has become increasingly blurred in Canada, especially in the wake of the coalition-prorogation crisis of December 2008. Recent works like Democratizing the Constitution: Reforming Responsible Government are emblematic of the attempt, as well as the failure, to reconcile the mutually exclusive concepts of political activism and constitutional scholarship.
A spin off of that book, Lori Turnbull’s column “A three-peat for prorogation? Bring on reform” in the Globe and Mailalso effectively underscores this problem: sometimes the correct academic argument becomes an obstacle to effective activism. The article makes at least two factual errors and, more broadly, purports a serious conceptual error of interpretation about the nature of crown prerogative and the role of unwritten convention in Canada’s constitution.
Problems with Turnbull’s Column and Democratizing the Constitution: Reforming Responsible Government
On Prorogation…
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