Is Labour Anti Semitic? BBC Panorama Highlights
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in discrimination Tags: British politics
On this date in History: July 10, 1553. Lady Jane Gray is proclaimed Queen of England. Part I
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Lady Jane Grey (c. 1537 – 12 February 1554), also known as Lady Jane Dudley (after her marriage)and as “the Nine Days’ Queen”, was an English noblewoman and de facto Queen of England and Ireland from July 10 until July 19, 1553.
Lady Jane Grey was the eldest daughter of Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk, and his wife, Frances Brandon, the second child and eldest daughter of Princess Mary, and Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk. Princess Mary was King Henry VIII’s younger sister. Jane had two younger sisters, Lady Catherine and Lady Mary; through their mother, the three sisters were great-granddaughters of Henry VII, grandnieces of Henry VIII, and first cousins once removed of Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I.
Lady Jane Gray
The traditional view is that she was born at Bradgate Park in Leicestershire in October 1537, while more recent research indicates that she was born…
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Amazon had some bad times
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in entrepreneurship, financial economics, law and economics Tags: superstars
More creative destruction
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in economic history, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, survivor principle Tags: creative destruction
Judge Richard Posner on the Role and Performance of the Judiciary” on YouTube
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in law and economics, Richard Posner
Steven Pinker – “Enlightenment Now…” | Talks at Google
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in defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of crime, health economics, law and economics, Marxist economics, property rights, Public Choice, war and peace Tags: Age of Enlightenment, The Great Enrichment
when austrian economists attack
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A few years ago, the late Sherlock Hibbs gave $5M to his alma mater, the University of Missouri. The intent was for Mizzou to hire six (!) professors and each needed to be a “dedicated and articulate disciple” of Ludwig von Mises. The Columbia Daily Tribune reports that the university got sued by Hillsdale College over this donation. Why? Hillsdale College claims that the terms of the donation were not met and the terms of the donation require that the gift, now valued at $9M would go to Hillsdale if the University of Missouri could not fulfill its terms.
Comment #1: This is a fascinating way to create some enforcement within the non-profit sector. It’s not full proof but in relatively simple donations, third parties would be willing to litigate if the reward was big enough and the enforcer could be written into the contract. Hillsdale is ideologically…
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Life Without Petroleum @greenpeace @NZGreens #EndOil
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in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
When a Spaniard moved to backward Minnesota
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in income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle, unions Tags: employment law, employment protection laws, employment regulation
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