The Great Smog Attack of London

29 Jan 2018 1 Comment

by Jim Rose in economic history, environmental economics Tags: , ,

Jordan Peterson: Why is Marxism so Attractive?

29 Jan 2018 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic history, economics of crime, environmental economics, history of economic thought, law and economics, Marxist economics, Public Choice, war and peace Tags: ,

Life expectancy is rising

29 Jan 2018 1 Comment

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How to shut up a marxist (Jordan Peterson speech)

28 Jan 2018 2 Comments

by Jim Rose in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic history, economics of crime, history of economic thought, income redistribution, law and economics, Marxist economics, poverty and inequality, Public Choice Tags: ,

The Vision of Jeffrey Sachs

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by Jim Rose in applied price theory, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, growth miracles, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: ,

Top 1% drops the ball again alert: immiseration of the proletariat edition – consumption poverty drops to near zero in the US impossibility theorem

27 Jan 2018 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied welfare economics, economic history, poverty and inequality

From https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/2012b_Meyer.pdf

Firing Line – Thomas Sowell w/ William F. Buckley Jr. (1981)

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by Jim Rose in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, discrimination, economic history, economics of education, economics of regulation, human capital, labour economics Tags: ,

#Stolengenerations hit an early legal land mine in #Tasmania

26 Jan 2018 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economic history, law and economics, politics - Australia

Source: Bringing them Home – Chapter 6 Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Report, Bringing them Home, Report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families April 1997.

The Best-Concealed Conspiracy in Australian History

26 Jan 2018 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economic history, economics of crime, law and economics, politics - Australia

Source: KEITH WINDSCHUTTL Why There Were No Stolen Generations (Part Two). Quadrant (January 2010) at http://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2010/1-2/why-there-were-no-stolen-generations-part-two/

Steve Landsburg on the origins of women’s liberation

25 Jan 2018 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, economic history, labour economics, labour supply

#OTD Winston Churchill dies January 24, 1965

24 Jan 2018 1 Comment

by Jim Rose in economic history Tags:

Moral relativism explained

23 Jan 2018 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in discrimination, economic history, economics of crime, gender, law and economics Tags: , ,

.@OxfamNZ concedes a massive reduction in global poverty but is coy as to how

22 Jan 2018 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in development economics, economic history, growth miracles

Why You Wouldn’t Want to Fly On The Soviet Concorde – The TU-144 Story

22 Jan 2018 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economic history, transport economics

Murray N. Rothbard: The History of Socialism

21 Jan 2018 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, economic history, history of economic thought, liberalism, libertarianism, Marxist economics, Murray Rothbard

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