So common among the anti-science left
12 Aug 2019 2 Comments
in energy economics, environmental economics, health economics, Public Choice Tags: Anti-Science left
Kathryn Edin on why single mums are choosy
12 Aug 2019 2 Comments
in economics of love and marriage, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, unemployment, welfare reform Tags: child poverty, dating market, family poverty, marriage and divorce, marriage market
Why “No Problem” Can Seem Rude: Phatic Expressions
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in economics of media and culture Tags: economics of languages
Schwerer Gustav – Rail Super Gun
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War II
Denisovans: Our Mysterious Cousins That Made Us Better
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in economic history, economics of media and culture, health economics
Just Deserts: Wind Power Outfits Sued For Causing South Australia’s Statewide Blackout
11 Aug 2019 3 Comments
On 28 September 2016, the automatic shutdown of wind turbines in South Australia during a spring storm delivered a statewide ‘system black’.
South Australia’s hapless Premier, Jay Weatherill led the wind industry’s propaganda charge, claiming that the collapse of a couple of power pylons in the state’s mid-North was what done it.
The collapse of a single transmission line could never has caused the collapse of the State’s entire power supply, but that didn’t stand in the way of a good pro-wind power PR story. The rest of the State’s transmission lines remained untroubled by the strong winds.
South Australia’s fleet of whirling wonders, did not fare so well, because they were never designed to. STT’s report on the story was posted before dawn the following day: Another Statewide Blackout: South Australia’s Wind Power Disaster Continues
Predictably, the renewable lobby went ballistic, as did plenty in the mainstream press.
The…
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The Case for Colonialism with Dr. Bruce Gilley
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in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, growth disasters, growth miracles, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, Marxist economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, unemployment Tags: Age of Discovery, age of empires, British empire, economics of colonialism
Should a teenager this fragile be making any big decisions before their mind is in a better place?
11 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in health economics, law and economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: evonomics of mental illness
Stephen Williamson on a good model cannot predict the timing of the financial crisis
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in business cycles, financial economics, global financial crisis (GFC), macroeconomics, monetary economics
The Vegetarians and Vegans Who Became Butchers
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Last Tuesday, The New York Times published a very interesting article about former vegetarians and vegans who became butchers. The people profiled did so, according to The Times, because they wanted to revolutionize the U.S.’s current food system to embrace what they consider ethical practices. Regardless of their reasons, their efforts should be applauded and choice respected. Hopefully, they will stay well and safe. Unfortunately, three years ago owners of a vegan cafe in Los Angeles decided they were going to serve meat harvested from their northern California farm only to receive death threats shortly thereafter.
“The Vegetarians Who Turned Into Butchers”, by Melissa Clark, August 6, 2019, The New York Times
“At Western Daughters Butcher Shoppe in Denver, Kate Kavanaugh trimmed the sinew from a deep-red hunk of beef the size of a bed pillow.
“Flatiron steak is the second-most tender muscle in a steer’s body,” she said…
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Why Nations Fail. Keynote Address by James Robinson
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in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, growth miracles, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, war and peace Tags: autocracy, The Great Enrichment
#ExxonKnew Epic Fail: Oil Companies DID NOT build “their rigs to account for sea-level rise”
11 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
H/T to Dr. Willie Soon for sending me something to ridicule this morning.
This is just fracking mental?
The Oil Giants Might Finally Pay for Pulling the Biggest Hoax of All
New York State is alleging ExxonMobil knew the risks of climate change and defrauded its investors by misrepresenting them.BYCHARLES P. PIERCE
AUG 7, 2019[? Exxon Knew blather snipped?]
Exxon engaged in ?a longstanding fraudulent scheme? to deceive investors by providing false and misleading assurances that it was effectively managing the economic risks posed by increasingly stringent policies and regulations it anticipated being adopted to address climate change, the lawsuit states. ?Instead of managing those risks in the manner it represented to investors, Exxon employed internal practices that were inconsistent with its representations, were undisclosed to investors, and exposed the company to greater risk from climate change regulation than investors were led to believe,? the lawsuit said.
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