First Amendment Salon: Judge Richard Posner and Prof. Geoffrey Stone
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in law and economics, liberalism, politics - USA, Richard Posner Tags: free speech
Parliament & World War I
27 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
In partnership with the Parliamentary Archives alongside their current exhibition on Parliament and the First World War, we recently held events in Parliament exploring the institution during the war years…
Parliament and the First World War exhibition, Westminster Hall
The Parliamentary Archives exhibition on Parliament and the First World War, still open in Westminster Hall, proved an excellent opportunity for us to gather together historians and discuss the impact of the First World War on Parliament.
Firstly, Dr Mari Takayanagi (Vote 100) spoke on ‘The Girl Porters and the Court Twins: Women Staff in Parliament in the First World War.’ Dr Takayanagi’s research had uncovered several women who had, because of the shortage of labour, had the opportunity to work in occupations within Parliament that had previously been closed to them because of their gender. She spoke of two examples: firstly the ‘girl porters’ who took messages…
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Poverty Eradication Program: India Dials Up Reliable & Affordable Coal-Fired Power
27 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
It never takes them long to work out that wind power is the greatest economic and environmental fraud of all time. Eco-zealots have attempted to ram wind and solar power down the throats of Third World governments under the auspices of saving the planet and with the purported purpose of dragging millions out of poverty. As the initiated well-know, wind power rates zero on both scores.
Pointless and expensive, wind and solar power is a kind of first world disease being spread by UN endorsed lunatics, across the developing world.
In India, solar power is seen as ‘fake electricity’, by those being forced to use it: The Cruel Hypocrisy: West Drops Wind Power as it Forces ‘Fake Electricity’ on the World’s Poor
With a population of 1.3 billion – and hundreds of millions of those screaming out for reliable and affordable electricity – which promises to lift them out of grinding…
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Can Markets Corrupt Social Values? Sandel discovers that Judge Posner is a lawyer. (Death bonds are a great innovation too)
27 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, law and economics, property rights, Richard Posner Tags: anti-market bias
Sustainability: Ideology versus Reality (Part II: Wind Turbines)
27 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
Editor Note: This post is part of the three-part series with Part I yesterday on Biofuels and Solar and Part III tomorrow on The Big Picture.
“Environmentalists are focused on banning plastic straws! Their inability to differentiate between imaginary, wildly inflated ecological problems and not the here-and-now issues of renewable energies is what the UN powers should address–but will not.”
Mandated, subsidized wind energy requires millions of acres for turbines and ultra-long transmission lines, plus billions of tons of concrete, steel, copper, rare earth metals and fiberglass. The turbines produce intermittent, unreliable electricity that (absent subsidies) costs much more than coal or gas-fueled electricity – and must be backed by fossil fuel generators that must go from standby to full-power many times a day, very inefficiently, every time the wind stops blowing.
Wind turbines kill numerous raptors, other birds and bats every year. Their light flicker and subsonic noise
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#OIA to @NZHumanRights: any research on the extent of pay transparency and pay secrecy
27 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of information, economics of regulation, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - New Zealand Tags: gender wage gap, The fatal conceit
A pointless prosecution
27 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: marijuana decrimilization
Why gains most from stronger hate speech laws? @NZHumanRights
27 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in law and economics, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: free speech, political correctness, regressive left, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
Sobering Facts about Global Warming
27 Aug 2019 1 Comment
A Short List Of Facts Global Warming Alarmists Don’t Want To Face by Issues and Insights Editorial Board. Excerpts in italics with my bolds.
Democrats nearly had a brawl last week in California after the party’s Resolutions Committee rejected a proposed climate debate among Democratic presidential candidates. Global warming so fully occupies the thinking of some that there’s no room for information that will contradict their faith.
If they’d only open their minds they’d see:
The U.S. hasn’t warmed since 2005. America isn’t the entire world. But the alarmists gleefully point out regional heatwaves and the “hottest day on record” when cities endure summer scorchers. So let’s look at the data. The U.S. Climate Reference Network, “a sophisticated climate-observing network specifically designed and deployed for quantifying climate change on a national scale,” has found there’s been no warming in the U.S. going back to 2005.
In fact, says meteorologist…
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The cost of #globalwarming by 2100 is small @jamespeshaw
27 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmists
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