Rise of the Nations I BETWEEN 2 WARS I 1918 1 of 2
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in defence economics, economic history, war and peace Tags: World War I, World War II
The White Ignorance of Milton Friedman
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in discrimination, Milton Friedman
White people have the luxury of not thinking about race if they don’t want to. Marginalized people, on the other hand, are forced to think about their own oppression all the time if they want to get by in the world. One way to think about this luxury is what philosopher Charles Mills calls “white ignorance.” In scholarship, one way the white ignorance is displayed is by white scholars, whom Critical Race Theorist Richard Delgado called “imperial scholars,” who ignore the scholarship of people of color. The poster child for white ignorance may well be Milton Friedman.
Milton Friedman was one of the most famous economists of the twentieth century. The leading light of the “Chicago School of Economics,” the most influential economics department in the world, Nobel prize-winner in Economics in 1976. If there were an All-Star team of economists, Friedman would be in the…
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More Libertarians: Murray Rothbard and Competitive Racism
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[NB: I quote a lot from Professor Peter Klein‘s comment on this thread regarding Murray Rothbard. I want to make quite clear that my comments about Rothbard are about Rothbard and not about Professor Klein. I thank him for raising Rothbard’s name in this context because he spurred me to write up my thoughts about Rothbard and racism. In no way do I want to impute Rothbard’s beliefs to Professor Klein. Just so we are clear on that.]
Murray N. Rothbard (1926-1995), has been called “the most gifted libertarian writer of his generation” (p. 251). Rothbard prided himself as, in Nancy MacLean‘s words, libertarianism’s “most scathing guardian of libertarian orthodoxy” (p. 147). He was an “anarcho-capitalist” who believed that all governmental functions should be privatized, including national defense and police forces. Unlike someone like JamesBuchanan, or indeed, most academics, who often work within institutional structures…
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Attention @NZGreens @greenpeace #EndOil
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in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
Voltaire and the one-liner
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To mark the publication at Oxford University Press of his new book ‘Voltaire: A Very Short Introduction’, a contribution to their Very Short Introductions series, Nicholas Cronk has written the following post about the wit and wisdom of Voltaire for the OUP Blog.
Voltaire: A Very Short Introduction by Nicholas Cronk is published by Oxford University Press.
As we mark Voltaire’s 323rd birthday – though the date of 20 February is problematic, – what significance does the great Enlightenment writer have for us now? If I had to be very very short, I’d say that Voltaire lives on as a master of the one-liner. He presents us with a paradox. Voltaire wrote a huge amount – the definitive edition of his Complete works being produced by the Voltaire Foundation in Oxford will soon be finished, in around 200 volumes. And yet he is really famous for his short sentences. He…
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A flat tax? Alas, RNZ burnt up its interview time while grilling Seymour about free speech and the racism bogey
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RNZ’s Morning Report yesterday led us to hope we would hear something about the attractions of a flat tax, an idea once promoted by Roger Douglas when he was Minister of Finance in the Lange government.
A flat tax – adopted in some American states and European countries – is among the tax reforms favoured by the Act party as it tries to refresh its image.
We were led to believe the Morning Report team would kick this around with Act leader David Seymour just before 8am yesterday because they mentioned it in their introduction to an interview with him.
Presenter Corin Dann said Act is targeting free speech “and radical tax reform” as it works to lift voter support heading into next year’s election.
The party had re-launched with the slogan ‘Act for freedom’.
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Roman Engineering: Crash Course History of Science #6
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in defence economics, economic history, economics of media and culture, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, industrial organisation Tags: Roman empire
Peter Boettke – The Continuing Relevance of F.A. Hayek
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in Austrian economics, F.A. Hayek, history of economic thought Tags: Peter Boettke
Ten Minute English and British History #20 – The English Civil War
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in economic history Tags: British history
Blitzkrieg on Speed – Nazis on Crystal Meth Part 2 – WW2 SPECIAL
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War II
LSE Sociology: Are There Any Right-Wing Sociologists? (Maybe they mostly work in the criminology field!)
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in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, discrimination, economic history, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics, survivor principle
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