History on Trial – Deborah Lipstadt and the fight for historical truth
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in defence economics, economics of crime, law and economics, war and peace Tags: free speech, Nazi Germany, The Holocaust, World War II
‘The only really important public service I performed’: John Stuart Mill’s women’s suffrage amendment, 20 May 1867
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perhaps the only really important public service I performed in the capacity of a Member of Parliament: a motion to strike out the words which were understood to limit the electoral franchise to males, thereby admitting to the suffrage all women who as householders or otherwise possess the qualification of all male electors.
Our MP of the Month is John Stuart Mill (1806-73), who sat as Liberal MP for Westminster, 1865-8.
One hundred and fifty years ago this week, the House of Commons voted for the first time on the question of granting the parliamentary franchise to women. In this landmark division, an amendment to the Conservative ministry’s 1867 reform bill put forward by the Liberal MP for Westminster, John Stuart Mill, 75 MPs backed women’s suffrage. However, 196 MPs, including the Liberal party leader, William Gladstone, entered the opposite lobby.
In his autobiography, Mill, who sat in the Commons from 1865 until his defeat at the 1868 general election, described his amendment of 20 May 1867 as
by far the most important, perhaps the only really important public service I performed in the capacity of a Member of Parliament: a motion to strike out the words which were understood to limit…
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Could you survive on this?
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: rationing, World War II
#ClimateEmergency #globalwarming adding a surprise new word: drinkable English wine
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in entrepreneurship, environmental economics, global warming Tags: wine
#globalwarming causing an economic boom in Greenland @Greenpeace @jamespeshaw @NZGreens
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in environmental economics, global warming Tags: Greenland
Personal sacrifices are required in the name of the #ClimateEmergency
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in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: climate alarmists
Akerlof’s lemons paper showed how markets profited from overcoming asymmetric information
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in applied price theory, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, economics of information, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, survivor principle Tags: asymmetric information
@CosmopolitanUK forgot dangers to women from things as simple as walking alone at night, much less sharing sexually revealing private places with men who identify as women
21 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, gender, politics - New Zealand
Fancy dress companies should be reviewing their costume offerings in the wake of Trudeau’s folly
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We wonder if Sparkling Strawberry Ltd – and other businesses which provide fancy dress costumes – have been obliged to review the range of garments they offer.
We mention SparklingStrawberry, based in Cheshire in the UK, after stumbling upon its website and running through its list of Fancy Dress Party Ideas
Here’s a few fancy dress ideas to inspire you when planning your Birthday, Halloween, Christmas, New Year’s Eve or Hogmanay fancy dress costume party. If you need any more excuses to throw a fancy dress party then you’ll find 52 reasons towards the bottom of this page.
An Alice in Wonderland party is one idea, but some of the suggestions in connection with this seem problematic. The Mad Hatter, for example. This is bound to give offence to the mentally enfeebled and/or their families.
The White Rabbit and White Queen raise racism issues.
But then we come to the…
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Wallace neutrality or quantitative easing as an asset exchange
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in financial economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics
WHY PEOPLE LOVE TO GOSSIP – William von Hippel
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in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, defence economics, development economics, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of information, economics of love and marriage, law and economics, property rights Tags: evolutionary psychology
My New Column at Forbes on Energy & Climate
21 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
I’ve started a new column at Forbes on energy and climate. Here are my first four columns:
- When Is Climate Change Just Weather? What Hurricane Dorian Coverage Mixes Up, On Purpose (link)
- Democrat Climate Policies Are Ambitious But Fail The Reality Test (link)
- The Case for a Goldilocks Carbon Tax (link)
- The Yawning Gap Between Climate Rhetoric and Climate Action (link)
Comments welcomed and more to come!
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