Firing rockets at your neighbour has consequences
21 Jul 2018 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of crime, International law, war and peace
David Friedman’s appearance in Miami’s Rothbardian Circle
19 Jul 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, David Friedman, defence economics, economics of crime, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice
Is the IDF indiscriminately Bombing Gaza?
19 Jul 2018 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of crime, International law, law and economics, war and peace Tags: Gaza Strip, Hamas, Israel, war on terror
The religious origins of the insanity defence
19 Jul 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, economics of religion, health economics, law and economics Tags: economics of mental illness
Speaking of useful idiots
19 Jul 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, war and peace Tags: Hamas, regressive left, useful idiots, war against terror
How 156 years of British rule shaped Hong Kong
19 Jul 2018 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, economics of crime, growth disasters, growth miracles, international economic law, International law, law and economics Tags: economics of borders, Hong Kong, maps
So true
18 Jul 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: fall of communism
Frank Abagnale: “Catch Me If You Can” | Talks at Google
17 Jul 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, economics of information, entrepreneurship, law and economics, movies
Frank Abagnale on Posing as an Airline Pilot
16 Jul 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics
Teenagers and family picnic ground as human shields @amnestynz silent on Hamas war crimes
15 Jul 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, International law, law and economics, laws of war, war and peace Tags: Gaza Strip, Hamas, war crimes
#OTD Shabbat of Hamas Rocket fire
15 Jul 2018 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of crime, International law, law and economics Tags: Gaza Strip, Hamas, Israel
PETA gets destroyed in an interview
15 Jul 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, health economics, law and economics Tags: animal liberation
Fist fights broke out in the sociology department hosting this PhD over the ethics of the field research (wanted to avoid response bias)
14 Jul 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, economics of education
From https://minerva.leeds.ac.uk/bbcswebdav/orgs/INTF00001/page%201_07.htm and
There were also social costs. The research occurred in the middle 1960s before institutional review boards were in existence. The dissertation proposal was reviewed only by Humphreys’ Ph.D. committee. Only after the research had been completed did the other members of the Sociology Department learn of it. A furor arose when some of those other members of the department objected that Humphreys’ research had unethically invaded the privacy and threatened the social standing of the subjects, and petitioned the president of Washington University to rescind Humphreys’ Ph.D. degree. The turmoil resulted in numerous other unfortunate events, including a fist fight among faculty members and the exodus of about half of the department members to positions at other universities.
There was considerable public outrage as well. Journalist Nicholas von Hoffman, who was given some details of the case by one of the angered members of the Sociology Department, wrote an article about Humphreys’ research and offered the following condemnation of social scientists: “We’re so preoccupied with defending our privacy against insurance investigators, dope sleuths, counterespionage men, divorce detectives and credit checkers, that we overlook the social scientists behind the hunting blinds who’re also peeping into what we thought were our most private and secret lives. But there they are, studying us, taking notes, getting to know us, as indifferent as everybody else to the feeling that to be a complete human involves having an aspect of ourselves that’s unknown.” (von Hoffman, 1970).
From http://www.drjkoch.org/Intro/Readings/Humphreys.htm
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
Recent Comments