48 Hours in Israel
26 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: Gaza Strip, Israel, war against terror
George Stigler (1949) on the increasing obsession of economists with income distribution
26 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic history, George Stigler, labour economics, poverty and inequality Tags: pessimism bias
Woolworth Lunch Counter civil rights sit-in
26 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economic history, law and economics, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice Tags: racial discrimination
No accountability for sprouting nonsense
26 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in environmental economics Tags: pessimism bias, public intellectuals
Maybe Freeman and Champ are explaining and refuting Modern Monetary Theory too
26 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
The Marxist Lie of White Privilege: Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
25 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
We’ve been hearing a lot about “White Privilege” lately, with the Democrats’ shift from collusion to race, race, race. Interesting to find out where it all comes from.
‘Green’ Hypocrites Want Industrial Wind Turbines in YOUR Backyard, But Never in Theirs
25 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
The green is always ready to spear hundreds of giant 240m (787ft) industrial wind turbines – into your backyard, but goes nuts if the ‘favour’ might be returned. Destroying your patch of paradise is a sacrifice that he is always willing to make.
When former Greens leader, Dr Bob Brown started railing about the prospect of a few of these things being planted in the North-West of his home State, Tasmania, the cry of ‘monstrous hypocrite’ could be heard far and wide. But in the green hypocrisy Olympics, Dr Bob is far from alone.
There’s an almost uncanny relationship between the location of the loudest proponents of these things and the likelihood that they will ever be forced to suffer life in their flickering shadows.
But it’s not simply ignorance of the plight of those rural residents driven mad in their homes or driven out of them by the practically…
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17 of the 100 biggest grossing films were filmed in Georgia in 2016
25 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, fiscal policy, industrial organisation, movies, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: film subsidies
Hothouse Earth
25 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
by Judith Curry
We need to raise the bar on how we think about the possible worst case scenario for climate change.
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Climate Change: What’s the Worst Case?
25 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
by Judith Curry
My new manuscript is now available.
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BBC News ‘contextualises’ terror attack with ‘settlements’ and ‘international law’
25 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
Roughly four hours after a terror attack took place near Dolev on August 23rd the BBC News website published a written report headlined “Israeli teenage girl killed in West Bank bomb attack” and a filmed report titled “West Bank bomb blast kills 17-year-old Israeli girl”.
The synopsis to the filmed report states: [all emphasis added]
“An Israeli teenage girl has been killed and her father and brother injured in a suspected Palestinian militant attack at a natural spring near a settlement in the occupied West Bank.
The Israeli military says an improvised explosive device was used.”
All four versions of the written report similarly opened by telling readers that:
“A 17-year-old Israeli girl has been killed in a bomb attack near a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank, the Israeli military says.”
A Tweet promoting the article used the same terminology:
“Israeli…
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