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In 1900, when most U.S. women baked their own bread and did the laundry by hand, maintaining a home was a full-time job.
24 Feb 2024 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of love and marriage, gender, labour economics, law and economics Tags: The Great Enrichment
Hunter Biden Goes Full Trump in a Flurry of Court Filings
24 Feb 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: 2024 presidential election
Below is my column in Fox.com on the flurry of recent filings by Hunter Biden who appears to be channeling Donald Trump in his attacks on prosecutors, whistleblowers and the media. Here is the column:
Hunter Biden Goes Full Trump in a Flurry of Court Filings
“That Didn’t Stop Me”: President Biden Brags that the Supreme Court Cannot Stop Him from Canceling Student Debt
23 Feb 2024 Leave a comment
in law and economics, politics - USA, property rights Tags: 2024 presidential election, rule of law, student debt
President Joe Biden held a press event to brag about a major accomplishment this week. That itself is hardly surprising in an election year, but the boast itself was rather curious. In announcing the writing off of another $1.2 billion owed to the government in student loans, Biden gloated that the Supreme Court could not […]
“That Didn’t Stop Me”: President Biden Brags that the Supreme Court Cannot Stop Him from Canceling Student Debt
Canadians deplatform championship cyclist because she was an Israeli who served in IDF
23 Feb 2024 1 Comment
in law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics Tags: free speech, Gaza Strip, Israel, Middle-East politics, political correctness, regressive left, war against terror
I am so bloody sick of the kind of hatred instantiated in this article, where someone gets deplatformed not because of what they were going to say, which is bad enough, but simply because of who they are. From Cycling magazine we get a disgusting tale of a championship cyclist booted out of an International […]
Canadians deplatform championship cyclist because she was an Israeli who served in IDF
Texas professor fired, then reinstated after a lawsuit, for teaching that chromosomes determine human sex
23 Feb 2024 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, gender, health economics, labour economics, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: Age of Enlightenment, employment law, free speech, political correctness, regressive left, sex discrimination
In general, one can’t say that chromosomes “determine sex” in animals, as there are other genetic or environmental features that determine what sex an individual becomes. As Coyne and Maroja (2023) note: Different sexes can determined during development bybe based on different chromosomes and their genes (e.g., XX vs. XY in humans, ZW vs. ZZ in birds, […]
Texas professor fired, then reinstated after a lawsuit, for teaching that chromosomes determine human sex
Master and Commander: The Biden Dogs Accused of Dozens of Additional Attacks at White House
23 Feb 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, health and safety, labour economics, law and economics, politics - USA, property rights Tags: 2024 presidential election
We have been writing about alarming record of the dogs of the Bidens attacking staff and Secret Service agents through the years. At first, the story was a humorous distraction as some of us wondered if the First Family had a vicious dog. It then became more alarming as each of the dogs were found […]
Master and Commander: The Biden Dogs Accused of Dozens of Additional Attacks at White House
Bari Weiss interviews Roland Fryer
22 Feb 2024 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, econometerics, economic history, economics of crime, economics of education, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality Tags: academic bias, crime and punishment, free speech, law and order, political correctness, racial discrimination, regressive left
A lot of readers and heterodox colleagues have sent me this link to Bari Weiss’s interview with Harvard economics professor Roland G. Fryer, Jr., often accompanied by big encomiums. Despite my unwillingness to watch long videos, I did watch all 77 minutes of it. Unfortunately, I wasn’t mesmerized, or even much interested. There are interesting […]
Bari Weiss interviews Roland Fryer
Pay to Play: Trump Faces a Staggering Cost for Appeal
21 Feb 2024 Leave a comment
in law and economics, politics - USA, property rights Tags: 2024 presidential election
Below is my column on Fox.com on the demand for roughly a $455 million dollar deposit or equivalent bond for Donald Trump to be able to seek appellate review of the recent judgment against him. The combination of the fine and the deposit rule highlight the confiscatory elements of this judgment. Here is the column:
Pay to Play: Trump Faces a Staggering Cost for Appeal
Raffael N. Fasel: Ouster Clauses and the Silent Constitutional Crisis
20 Feb 2024 Leave a comment
in law and economics, property rights Tags: British constitutional law
In a recent comment on the Government’s Rwanda Bill and on speculations about an unprecedented strike down by the Supreme Court, Professor Mark Elliott asked a question that has been on many UK public lawyers’ minds lately: “Are we headed for a constitutional crisis?” This question, to be sure, is not new. However, with a […]
Raffael N. Fasel: Ouster Clauses and the Silent Constitutional Crisis
Tino Rangatiratanga and localism
20 Feb 2024 1 Comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economics of regulation, law and economics, property rights Tags: Canada
My piece for the Saturday papers weekend before last, and now ungated here, went back to a theme that Richard Harman had noticed in the Waitangi speeches. Minister Shane Jones argued fuller debate on the meaning of Tino Rangatiratanga is inevitable, saying, “There is a deep, committed view from Pita Tipene and others that article two…
Tino Rangatiratanga and localism
Brian Christopher Jones: Nigel Farage and the UK Constitution
20 Feb 2024 Leave a comment
in constitutional political economy, currency unions, economic history, law and economics, macroeconomics Tags: British constitutional law, British politics, European Union
The upheaval of the UK constitution from 2016 onwards has been associated with a host of individuals, from David Cameron to Boris Johnson to Dominic Cummings, who have received the significant bulk of academic attention in recent years. And yet, another individual has had a substantial impact upon the UK constitution during this time: Nigel […]
Brian Christopher Jones: Nigel Farage and the UK Constitution
Blind Justice or Blind Rage: New York’s Legal System Faces Ultimate Test With Obscene Trump Award
20 Feb 2024 Leave a comment
in law and economics, politics - USA Tags: 2024 presidential election
Below is my column in The Hill on the $355 million verdict against Trump and his corporation in New York. The damages in my view are excessive and absurd after the court acknowledged that no one lost a dime in these exchanges. Indeed, the “victims” wanted to do more business with Trump and made handsome […]
Blind Justice or Blind Rage: New York’s Legal System Faces Ultimate Test With Obscene Trump Award
@TaxpayersUnion Submission on the Fair Digital News Bargaining Bill
19 Feb 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, industrial organisation, law and economics, property rights
RODNEY HIDE interviews PROF PAUL MOON
19 Feb 2024 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of crime, economics of education, International law, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - New Zealand, property rights Tags: constitutional law
PROF PAUL MOON: Historian and Author: On His Review of The Human Rights Commission’s ‘Maranga Mai’ Report on ‘The Doctrine of Discovery’ Paul Moon joins Rodney to discuss his review of the Human Rights Commission’s ‘Maranga Mai’ report on ‘The Doctrine of Discovery’. Listen here You can read Paul’s review on ‘The Doctrine of Discovery’…
RODNEY HIDE interviews PROF PAUL MOON
Willis Goes Full Trump . . . and May Get Away With It
17 Feb 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: 2024 presidential election, crime and punishment
Below is a slightly expanded version of my column on Fox.com on the hearing in Georgia over allegations of improper conduct by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. In her combative testimony, Willis looked strikingly like the man she is prosecuting. Here is the column:
Willis Goes Full Trump . . . and May Get Away With It
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