First Systematic Study Of The Advice People Would Give To Their Younger Selves
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If racially biased, there must be systematic differences in arrest rates for police initiated contacts and for public initiated contacts
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Wind Industry Victims Vindicated: Endless Noise Complaints Force Giant Wind Farm Shutdown in Ontario
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Finally, Huron County farmers driven nuts by incessant wind turbine noise have forced the shut down of their giant industrial tormentors.
Ontario’s government has been in bed with the wind industry from the beginning, ignoring, bullying and berating wind farm neighbours with the temerity to complain about the grinding, thumping cacophony dished up by these things on a daily basis. Now, finally, after years of fighting simply to be heard, Ontario’s farmers are getting a taste of what representative and responsible government might look like.
In a result that couldn’t come soon enough for the Huron County farming families forced to live with it, an Order has just been made shutting down 140 turbines near Ashfield-Colborne-Wawanosh. The order was made simply because their operator, K2 Wind can’t comply with the conditions of its planning permit or even Ontario’s (extremely lax) noise regulations. Needless to say, the local farmers’ delight is…
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The strength of social norms, broken windows theory and petty crime @sst_nz
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in econometerics, economics of crime, law and economics Tags: crime and punishment, criminal deterrence, law and order, social capital
From The Better Angels of Our Nature, p. 124
In case D-Day failed
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: D-Day, World War II
Milton Friedman Speaks – Myths That Conceal Reality
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in applied price theory, budget deficits, business cycles, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, fiscal policy, great depression, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, macroeconomics, Milton Friedman, monetary economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: capitalism and freedom
Lee Kwan Yew was first seen by @nytimes as a bit of a commie when he founded Singapore #OTD
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in development economics, economic history, growth miracles, Public Choice Tags: Singapore
#OTD 1944 The Decision That Changed The World
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D-Day
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#OTD President Reagan’s Address at Pointe du Hoc, Normandy, France, June 6, 1984
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How Did The Allies Keep D-Day A Secret?
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DEBATE: Should We Limit Free Speech for Nazis?
05 Jun 2019 1 Comment
in law and economics, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: free speech
Austerity Britain: Smoke in the Valley, 1948–51 by David Kynaston (2007)
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David Kynaston (b.1951) has written about 16 history books on broadly three topics: cricket, the City of London, and Britain after the Second World War. His post-war histories have been published as three volumes, each of which – rather confusingly – contained two books:
- Austerity Britain, 1945–51 (2007) containing:
- Family Britain, 1951–57 (2009)
- Modernity Britain, 1957–62 (2014) which contained:
- Opening the Box, 1957–59
- A Shake of the Dice, 1959–62
This is a review, or notes on, book two of volume one, Austerity Britain: Smoke in The Valley, which covers the years 1948 to 1951 i.e. from the inauguration of the National Health Service on 5 July 1948 to Labour’s defeat in the October 1951 general election.
In 1940 Somerset Maugham published a collection of short stories titled The Mixture As…
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The Plantagenets (1) by Dan Jones (2012)
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The House of Plantagenet held the English throne from 1154 (with the accession of King Henry II) until 1485 (when Richard III was killed at the Battle of Bosworth).
The origin of ‘plantagenet’
The family name comes from Geoffrey V, Count of Anjou in north-west France (tucked in behind Normandy and Brittany) from 1113 to 1151, and here’s why:
When Henry I of England’s only son and heir, William Aetheling, drowned in the White Ship disaster of 1120, Henry took a second wife, Adeliza, in the hope of having another son, but their marriage was childless. So Henry named his daughter, Matilda, born in 1102, as his heir and called the nobles of England together to vow to accept her as monarch after his death. All he had to do now was marry her off to another royal family. Henry received various offers for Matilda’s hand and eventually chose the 15-year-old…
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