The Economics of Ideas
02 Jun 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, economics of information, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, survivor principle Tags: creative destruction, endogenous growth, patents and copyright
The Fog That Killed 12,000 People
02 Jun 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of regulation, experimental economics Tags: air pollution
What does #EndOil mean for the anti-science left?
02 Jun 2019 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: Fossil Fuels, The fatal conceit
Ronald Radosh – Commies: A Journey Through the Old Left, the New Left and the Leftover Left
02 Jun 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, history of economic thought, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: Ronald Radosh
A Woman’s Place is Back in Town: Julie Bindel (20 May 2019)
01 Jun 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, gender, law and economics Tags: political correctness
What Was the Industrial Revolution? – Robert E. Lucas
01 Jun 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, development economics, economic growth, economic history, economics of education, economics of love and marriage, health economics, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, Robert E. Lucas Tags: endogenous growth theory
Long Way to Run: Warren Buffet Rejects All-Renewable Future With $10 Billion Bet on Oil & Gas
01 Jun 2019 Leave a comment
Australian voters just shredded the notion that the proletariat is wedded to heavily subsidised and chaotically intermittent wind and solar.
Labor’s Bill Shorten sought to ram a 50% Renewable Energy Target down voter’s throats; a concept which the vast majority of them duly rejected.
Sure, there were plenty of other issues that sank the Green/Labor Alliance. However, it should be remembered that 2019 was billed as the ‘Climate Change Election’, with wind and solar pitched up as the only panacea to what has now become a ‘climate emergency’.
Pundits professed, with great certitude, the notion that the Australian public just can’t get enough intermittent, unreliable and unaffordable electricity. Well, that didn’t quite pan out. Bill Shorten slunk off the political stage, a wounded and embittered hero of renewable energy zealots and rent seekers, alike.
Another part of the meme was that the markets had already turned their back on fossil…
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A disgusting hit piece on Pinker in Current Affairs
01 Jun 2019 Leave a comment
Several readers sent me this hit piece on Pinker in Current Affairs, written by Nathan J. Robinson, a Ph.D. student at Harvard in sociology and social policy. He also happens to be the editor in chief of the magazine, which explains how this profanity-laced piece got published.
Click on the screenshot below to read it. One person also sent it to me because I am quoted in it, though the quote is used in a misleading way (more below). I suggest you read it yourself, and compare Robinson’s characterization of Pinker with what you know of Steve’s last two books, The Better Angels of Our Nature and Enlightenment Now. For if you haven’t read either or both of those books, you won’t be able to judge Robinson’s jeremiad.
The title alone tells you where the piece is going. Regardless of what you think of Pinker, he’s…
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Are Electric Planes Possible?
01 Jun 2019 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, transport economics Tags: solar power
Born a Male, CeCe Telfer, Dominates in Women’s NCAA. Female hurdles are 6 inches shorter
01 Jun 2019 Leave a comment
in gender, law and economics, politics - USA, sports economics Tags: political correctness
Camille Paglia – Academic “leftists” are careerists and institutional types, not authentic leftists
01 Jun 2019 Leave a comment
Bob Murphy The Free Market and Climate Change 2 of 3
01 Jun 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economic history, economics of information, economics of natural disasters, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - USA Tags: climate alarmists
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