Different Law Systems David D Friedman
23 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economics of crime, law and economics, property rights
Suicidal Tendencies: Wind & Solar Obsession Destroys Australia’s Economic Future
22 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
A little over 20 years ago, Australia plugged in to the wind and solar transition with the Federal government’s Renewable Energy Target. As they say, ‘sow the wind, and reap the whirlwind’. Australia’s once reliable and affordable power supplies are long gone, replaced by heavily subsidised, intermittent and costly wind and solar, backed up by […]
Suicidal Tendencies: Wind & Solar Obsession Destroys Australia’s Economic Future
New questions about the war
21 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
As Israel’s troops and tanks sit waiting at the border to invade Gaza, I’m starting to wonder if they really will invade. For when I remember that Israel’s avowed aim is to get rid of Hamas, and then think of the options Israel has (I’ve concluded that a ground invasion was the best tactic), I […]
New questions about the war
David Friedman on climate change
21 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, David Friedman, development economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, law and economics, property rights
The Trump Gag Order Should Be Struck Down
21 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
Below is my column in The Hill on the imposition of a gag order on former President Donald Trump by U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan. Despite my long-standing criticism of Trump’s personal attacks on judges and critics, this gag order should be curtailed or struck down on appeal. While the odds tend to favor the lower…
The Trump Gag Order Should Be Struck Down
The Unravelling: High Hopes and Missed Opportunities in Iraq by Emma Sky (2015)
20 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
‘The Coalition promised regime change but instead brought about state collapse.’ (Unnamed Iraqi general quoted on page 101) This is a disappointing book. Emma Sky is mentioned half a dozen time in Thomas E. Ricks’s book The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006 to 2008. Her story is extraordinary. […]
The Unravelling: High Hopes and Missed Opportunities in Iraq by Emma Sky (2015)
Book recommendations (in no particular order)
20 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
Randomistas: Fighting Poverty with Science by Esther Duflo Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters by Steven Pinker Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by Steven Pinker Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are by Seth…
Book recommendations (in no particular order)
The manufacturing sector
20 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
I’ve written a few sceptical posts here over the years about the annual (or so) Technology Investment Network’s (TIN) boosterish reports on the New Zealand tech sector. The overall story was just even close to as upbeat as the reports liked to make out. Yesterday a link to a new TIN report turned up in […]
The manufacturing sector
NYT “explains” changing headlines about hospital bombings as a result of taking what Hamas says as “news”
20 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
The other day I reproduced the montage of headlines below from The Free Press, a montage showing how New York Times headlines about the Gazan hospital “explosion” changed from day to day. First it was an “Israeli strike” that killed hundreds in the hospital, then just a “strike” (there must have been some doubt then…
NYT “explains” changing headlines about hospital bombings as a result of taking what Hamas says as “news”
David D. Friedman – The Externality problem: Population, Climate, Pandemic
19 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, David Friedman, development economics, economic history, economics of climate change, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, history of economic thought, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, population economics, property rights, Public Choice
“Progressives” introduce cease-fire bill aimed at Israel and “Occupied Palestine”
19 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
I got this Algemeiner link from reader Norm, who added: Far-left representatives in the U.S. House of Representatives are calling for a cease fire in “occupied Palestine.” These representatives seem not to understand that Gaza has been a self-governing entity since 2005–occupied by Hamas. Or, perhaps they do know this and are referring the entire […]
“Progressives” introduce cease-fire bill aimed at Israel and “Occupied Palestine”
Occupational Hazards: My Time Governing in Iraq by Rory Stewart (2007)
18 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
‘If you put my cousin on the council, I will slit his throat.’ (Typical threat from an Iraqi sheikh, Occupational Hazards, page 231) Rory Stewart Stewart (born 1973) is posh. He comes from a family of Scottish landed gentry. Like lots of poshos born into a family which helped administer the last shreds of empire, […]
Occupational Hazards: My Time Governing in Iraq by Rory Stewart (2007)
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