La maquinaria de la libertad (Entrevista) | David Friedman
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Steven Pinker: Human nature and the blank slate
03 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of education, health economics Tags: evolutionary psychology
The Courage to Do Nothing about Climate Change
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At Human Events, Gregory Wrightstone writes Principled Inaction in the Face of Climate Change Extremism. Excerpts in italics with my bolds.
President Trump’s courageous commitment to America first on the issue of energy emissions.
The 2019 United Nations Climate Change Conference, “COP25,” began with a cryptic address by U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres: “By the end of the coming decade we will be on one of two paths, one of which is sleepwalking past the point of no return … Do we want to be remembered as the generation that buried its head in the sand and fiddled as the planet burned?”
According to Guterres, “What is still lacking is political will.” And yet, despite all this “lack of political will,” some 70 countries have pledged carbon neutrality by 2050. Conspicuously absent from the proceedings, however, is the Trump Administration. No senior member of President Trump’s administration is in attendance at…
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The Hungarian Romanian War & The Downfall of the Hungarian Soviet Republic I THE GREAT WAR 1919
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
Focus group: Can Tories win over @UKLabour supporters who back Leave?
03 Dec 2019 1 Comment
in income redistribution, international economic law, international economics, International law, Public Choice, public economics Tags: Brexit, British politics
Selection Bias: Will You Make More Going to a Private University?
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Vaping Update: Policy Versus Reality
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in economics of regulation, health economics Tags: economics of smoking
Madrid
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by Judith Curry
The UN Climate Change Conference this week in Madrid provides an important opportunity to reflect on state of the public debate surrounding climate change.
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David Friedman | Feud as Law (17. 4. 2018)
03 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, David Friedman, economics of crime, law and economics, property rights
The German Plan to Destroy French Culture – The Occupation of France – WW2 – 066 – November 30, 1940
02 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
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Graeber Against Economics
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How do banks that solicit deposits from pesky customers, all demand cheques services, ATMs, and bank branches survive in competition with banks who can just print money and loan it out at a profit?
David Graeber’s vitriolic essay “Against Economics” in the New York Review of Books has generated responses from Noah Smith and Scott Sumner among others. I don’t disagree with much that Noah or Scott have to say, but I want to dig a little deeper than they did into some of Graeber’s arguments, because even though I think he is badly misinformed on many if not most of the subjects he writes about, I actually have some sympathy for his dissatisfaction with the current state of economics. Graeber wastes no time on pleasantries.
There is a growing feeling, among those who have the responsibility of managing large economies, that the discipline of economics is no longer fit for purpose. It is beginning to look like a science designed to solve problems that no longer exist.
A serious polemicist should avoid blatant mischaracterizations, exaggerations and cheap shots, and should be well-grounded in…
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