Posner and Epstein Debate the Patent System 2012
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in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, economics of information, entrepreneurship, health economics, industrial organisation, law and economics, Richard Epstein, Richard Posner, survivor principle Tags: patents and copyright
Tullock on juries
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in comparative institutional analysis, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of information, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics Tags: juries
Could You REALLY Survive A Trip To Mars? | Answers With Joe
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in economics of media and culture Tags: Mars
Robotic surgery!
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Since I had robotic surgery yesterday, I’ve become fascinated with this marvelous innovation in medicine. I’ve looked at a bunch of videos, and found two to post: one with a general introduction to the machines and their use, from the BBC, and the other showing how dextrous the robot is.
When I was wheeled into the operating theater, I asked to see the robot, and I’m pretty sure it was one of the da Vinci machines. It was all covered with plastic, for it had been sterilized, and it was on the other side of the room. (I don’t know whether the surgeon was next to me when he wielded it.)
I can see now why they told me I couldn’t have local anesthesia, as I had requested, to observe my operation: imagine how freaked out you’d be to see those big metal arms descending on your belly! But I…
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Worst case scenario by 2100 is 1m; five times the rise since 1870, sea level rises no one noticed
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in economic history, environmental economics, global warming
Daron Acemoglu: Labor demand through the ages
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in applied price theory, economic history, economics of education, gender, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, unemployment Tags: automation, creative destruction
Thomas Sargent: The 2011 Nobel Prize Winner For His Work On Relating Policy & Economics
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in budget deficits, business cycles, economic growth, macroeconomics
The Battle of Britain is a Bitch – WW2 – 052 – August 24 1940
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War II
69 kg class male lifter can lift female weight plus the 69kg female weightlifter lifting the female Olympic record weight
24 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in gender, law and economics, sports economics
‘Green’ Magic: Wind & Solar ‘Transition’ The Greatest Con Job in History
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Elon Musk convinced South Australians to spend $150 million on a battery with a nominal capacity of 100MW, that could power the state for all of four minutes.
Sunset and calm weather mean that wind and solar will never be meaningful power sources. Talk about ‘storage’ overcoming their chaotic intermittency, is just that: talk. The sum total of the world’s grid scale storage capacity for electricity is risible.
The biggest single battery in the world, sits in a sheep paddock in South Australia’s mid-North. Reefer-smoking Tesla tycoon, Elon Musk convinced South Australians to spend $150 million on a battery with a nominal capacity of 100MW, that could power the state for all of four minutes. Now that’s salesmanship!
The reality is that for the wind and solar industries to amount to anything other than subsidy sucking parasites, they’re going to need to pull the proverbial rabbit out of a hat.
As Mark Mills details below, getting wind and solar to work requires a very special kind of magic. The kind that suspends physics, meteorology, economics and our good…
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Virtue signaling @kfcnz’s paper bag is too small, leaks, no handle. Drinks spill in car #plasticbagfascism @eugeniesage
24 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in environmental economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: recycling
The Chinese and Russian transitions explained
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in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, industrial organisation, Marxist economics, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: China, economics of federalism, fall of communism, Russia
#OTD Paris Delivered (1944)
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War II
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