French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars: Every Week
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in defence economics, economic history, International law, war and peace
Biggest Dot-com Companies 1998 – 2019
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in economic history, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, survivor principle Tags: creative destruction
A Lost Generation of Socialism Youth?
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I’ve opined that statist policies harm young people.
I also shared this video explaining why big government is bad for millennials and the Gen-Z crowd.
This should be a slam-dunk issue. After all, don’t they know how the communist world collapsed?
Aren’t they aware of the problems in places such as Greece and Venezuela?
Or, to make it personal, don’t they have any inkling of the fact that they are going to get screwed by entitlement programs?
And what about the fact that they lose out because of Obamacare?
Sadly, it appears many of them haven’t learned the right lesson.
Support for socialism is disturbingly high among the young.
I’ve wondered, only half-jokingly, whether they’re too clueless to vote.
David Grasso opines on this topic for the New York Post.
It’s important to look at the typical millennial trajectory, and why unprecedented government intervention…
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Hitler and the Art of the Deal – WW2 – 058 – October 5 1940
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War II
Pascal’s Precautionary Wager: The Logic of Fear
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When I wrote the Poison of Precaution earlier this year, one piece was missing from that puzzle. What was the logic behind the acceptance that being right didn’t matter? And why do some scientists, who know better about what is not right, then tolerate this scientific illogic? I had to put precaution into a belief system.
What would happen if we compared the precautionary principle from today’s environmentalist religion to Pascal’s Wager on the existence of God from pre-Enlightenment Christian religion? Both do not follow an evidence-based approach and build their logic on the conclusion that, in the face of uncertainty, being factually correct is not as important as the potential consequences from the risk of being wrong. Just as Pascal’s argument is neither genuine nor convincing, the precautionary logic does not reinforce the eco-theology and is merely a manipulative tool to emotionally manage away uncertainty.
When your belief system…
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APPEASEMENT: CHAMBERLAIN, HITLER, CHURCHILL, AND THE ROAD TO WAR by Tim Bouverie
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(Neville Chamberlain after returning from the Munich Conference)
In 1961 the controversial British historian, A.J.P. Taylor published THE ORIGINS OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR arguing that the war was caused by the appeasement policies pursued by England and France toward Nazi Germany. He further purported that Adolf Hitler was more of a traditional European statesman who easily could have been stopped in March 1936 at the Rhineland bridges had England and France had the will to do so. This book created a firestorm in academic circles and over the years numerous historians have challenged Taylor’s conclusions. Among the first was J.W. Wheeler-Bennett’s MUNICH: PROLOGUE TO TRAGEDY followed later by Telford Taylor’s MUNICH: THE PRICE OF PEACE, Lynne Olson’s TROUBLESOME YOUNG MEN: THE REBELS WHO HELPED SAVE ENGLAND, David Faber’s MUNICH THE 1938 APPEASEMENT CRISIS, and last year a fictional account was written by Robert Harris. These books among many…
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Why didn’t Rome Conquer Ireland? (Short Animated Documentary)
06 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history Tags: Ireland, Roman empire
WHAT DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM DOES TO ECONOMIC PROSPERITY
06 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic growth, economic history, economics of education, economics of regulation, fiscal policy, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: Sweden
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