Swimming Pools Vs. Guns
09 Jun 2017 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of crime, economics of information, economics of regulation, health and safety
Judge Richard Posner: Privacy
05 Jun 2017 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, law and economics, Richard Posner Tags: economics of privacy
Humanitarians redeemed Sudanese slaves by buying them out of slavery. Did it work out?
02 Jun 2017 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, development economics, economics of crime, growth disasters, law and economics Tags: economics of slavery, offsetting behaviour, unintended consequences
Christopher Hitchens responds to @JeremyCorbyn on war against terror
26 May 2017 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of crime, law and economics Tags: political correctness, war against terror
The Numbers in Sumo Cheating: Freakonomics Movie
24 May 2017 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of crime, labour economics, law and economics
John Cleese on his relationships with women
23 May 2017 2 Comments
in economics of love and marriage Tags: John Cleese
Maajid Nawaz responds to a caller who supports stoning women to death for adultery
23 May 2017 Leave a comment
in economics of religion, law and economics, liberalism Tags: Age of Enlightenment, political correctness
A kind word for Senator Joe McCarthy after watching the movie Trumbo
23 May 2017 Leave a comment
in constitutional political economy, defence economics, economics of crime, law and economics, liberalism, movies, politics - USA, war and peace Tags: communist party, espionage, free speech, McCarthyism, Red Menace, subversion, war against terror
Source: Bernstein, David, The Red Menace Revisited. Northwestern University Law Review.
The deciphered cables of the Venona Project identify 349 citizens, immigrants, and permanent residents of the United States who had had a covert relationship with Soviet intelligence agencies… Further, American cryptanalysts in the Venona Project deciphered only a fraction of the Soviet intelligence traffic, so it was only logical to conclude that many additional agents were discussed in the thousands of unread messages…
Source: Venona Decoding Soviet Espionage in America By JOHN EARL HAYNES and HARVEY KLEHR Yale University Press 1999, Chapter 1.
ASSORTATIVE MATING OR GLASS CEILING?
22 May 2017 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of love and marriage, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: assortative mating, dating market, gender wage gap, glass ceiling
Difference between a psychopath and a sociopath
16 May 2017 Leave a comment
in economics of crime Tags: criminal psychology
John Cleese: How to get rich
15 May 2017 Leave a comment
in economics of love and marriage Tags: John Cleese


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