Plainly, he got it wrong
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in environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmism
Stigler said Alfred Marshall’s greatest contribution was to dynamic analysis
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Voters still have short fingers and long pockets despite @Greenpeace @jamespeshaw ramping up their #ClimateEmergency rhetoric
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in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics Tags: climate alarmism
From http://www.apnorc.org/projects/Pages/Is-the-Public-Willing-to-Pay-to-Help-Fix-Climate-Change-.aspx
World Energy Production by Source 1860 – 2019
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in economic history, energy economics
Religions are not evolving into g-rated versions of the Church of England.
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The fight to rethink (and reinvent) nuclear power @voxdotcom
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in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: atomic energy, climate alarmism, nuclear power
Climate Alarmism Isn’t Rational
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in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economic history, economics of information, economics of natural disasters, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: climate alarmism
Bill Maher on Americans Of Size
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Here’s a segment from this week’s “Real Time” show in which Bill Maher addresses the epidemic of obesity among Americans. While he, like me, is against “fat shaming”—telling obese people that they need to lose weight (that’s their doctors’ job), we both object to the recent movement to de-stigmatize obesity by pretending that it’s not harmful. Of course it is: it’s associated, as Maher says, with nearly every health issue you can imagine. Yet with the rise of the “body acceptance movement,” we constantly see claims that you can be “healthy at every size“.
But that’s not true. On average, you’re less healthy if you’re obese. In a 2010 National Institutes of Health study, researchers found a decrease in longevity with every ranked step up on the body mass index (BMI). And overweight people know this. As Grania used to tell me, “You don’t have to tell people…
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The Man Who Would Be Queen: Michael Bailey: {Part Three}
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Part 3: The Man Who Would Be Queen: Autogynephiles.
Having seen many references to this book I have finally got around to tackling it. The full text is available free here: The Man Who Would Be Queen
Bailey is clearly fascinated with the topic of transsexualism and immerses himself in their subculture to recruit “subjects” for his research. He is not, at least in this book, concerned with the legislative framework to protect transsexuals. He also or doesn’t examine how any such laws that interacts with those enacted to protect the female sex. His exposition of the underlying, erotic, motivations for transition does, however, reinforce the need for women’s, sex based, rights.
Bailey, uses prominent researcher Ray Blanchard’s typology of transsexuals which differentiate between HSTS (homosexual transsexuals) and AGP transsexuals. The wider public, and many commentators, are either ignorant about this typology or reject it. Bailey believes transsexualism could illuminate…
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More monopolies for @NZComCom to fret over: Best-Selling Mobile Phone Makers 1992 – 2018
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in development economics, economic history, entrepreneurship, growth miracles, industrial organisation, survivor principle Tags: competition law
Ten Minute History – The Rise of the Ottoman Empire
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in defence economics, economic history, International law, war and peace
How to outsmart a scam: Strategies from legendary con man Frank W. Abagnale
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in economics of crime, law and economics Tags: law and order
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