The woke left summarised
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in economics of media and culture, law and economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: political correctness, regressive left
A warning from Martin Niemoller to the woke left
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in law and economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: free speech, political correctness, regressive left
The Great Fact
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in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, law and economics, Public Choice, Rawls and Nozick, rentseeking Tags: economics of colonialism, The Great Escape
@Greenpeace @NZGreens
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in economic history, economics of information, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
We need strong leadership to protect town criers, betamax and videostores from unfair competition!
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in economic history, entrepreneurship, labour supply, unemployment
Weitzman on the fragile basis of the Stern review
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in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of natural disasters, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, law and economics, Public Choice, public economics Tags: climate alarmists
Roofs or Ceilings? The Current Housing Problem
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in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, economics of regulation, George Stigler, income redistribution, law and economics, Milton Friedman, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: offsetting behaviour, rent control, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
“Green” Energy Has Increased Emissions Of The Most Powerful Greenhouse Gas
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Global Warming Theory and the Tests It Fails
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Many people commenting both for and against reducing emissions from burning fossil fuels assume it has been proven that rising GHGs including CO2 cause higher atmospheric temperatures. That premise has been tested and found wanting, as this post will describe. First below is a summary of Global Warming Theory as presented in the scientific literature. Then follows discussion of several unsuccessful attempts to find evidence of the hypothetical effects from GHGs in the relevant datasets. Concluding is the alternative theory of climate change deriving from solar and oceanic fluctuations.
Scientific Theory of Global Warming
The theory is well described in an article by Kristian (okulaer) prefacing his analysis of “AGW warming” fingerprints in the CERES satellite data. How the CERES EBAF Ed4 data disconfirms “AGW” in 3 different ways by okulaer November 11, 2018. Excerpts below with my bolds. Kristian provides more detailed discussion at his blog (title in red…
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The Age of Enlightenment was the jewel of Western civilization
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in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of crime, economics of information, economics of media and culture, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, Thomas Sowell Tags: Age of Enlightenment
Idiot Mistakes That Changed The Course Of History
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in defence economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, international economics, law and economics, Marxist economics, Public Choice, war and peace
The Great Vowel Shift
15 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of media and culture Tags: economics of languages
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