Discrimination and Disparities with Thomas Sowell
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Not only are the top 1% now a working rich, they are rainmakers for the firms they own
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in applied price theory, entrepreneurship, politics - USA, poverty and inequality
Hate Speech: A Lesson From 1930s Germany: Beware State Control of Social Media
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This article at The Atlantic by Heidi Tworek had as a sub-title – Regulators should think carefully about the fallout from well-intentioned new rules and avoid the mistakes of the past.
This is an excellent article and fully repays the time spent reading it.
I will only quote a few points, as this really needs to be read in it’s entirety.
The history of radio, and in particular how it was regulated in interwar Germany, is more relevant than ever: Five years ago, the question was whether we would regulate social media. Now the questions are how and when we will regulate them. As politicians and regulators in places as disparate as Berlin, Singapore, and Washington—even Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg—consider how best to do so, we should think carefully about the fallout from well-intentioned new rules and avoid the mistakes of the past.
This article is dated 27 May…
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Is there going to be an Israel 2019b?
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Today, the Knesset of Israel took the first step towards passing a bill to dissolve itself and set an early election, probably for 9 September. This came after Yisrael Beitenu leader Avigdor Liberman said he would not join an emerging government coalition that he claimed would be a halakha government. He was referring to the demands in such a coalition of the two Haredi Knesset factions, Shas and United Torah Judaism. (Halakha is Jewish law.)
It is still possible that this is all an elaborate ploy by PM Benjamin Netanyahu and his various allies to pressure Liberman into backing down. However, Liberman himself has said he welcomes new elections, and the preliminary reading of the elections bill passed with 65 votes, or exactly the number that the putative right/Haredi coalition would have if Yisrael Beitenu’s five seats are included.
In the 2019(a?) election in April, Netanyahu’s Likud won 35…
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Posting this criticism of a religion and those that follow that religion while it is still legal to do so
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Why nations fail | James Robinson
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in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of regulation, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle, technological progress Tags: competition law, The Great Enrichment
Uncertainty and Ambiguity in American Fiscal and Monetary Policies Thomas Sargent
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in budget deficits, business cycles, currency unions, economic growth, economic history, economics of information, Euro crisis, financial economics, fiscal policy, geography, global financial crisis (GFC), great depression, great recession, law and economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics Tags: Thomas Sargent
Dangerous as some driver say not see it until late and swerve because they don’t know it is foam
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in transport economics Tags: road safety
The Most Venomous Animals in the World
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Rather a lot
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in economic history, International law, politics - USA Tags: economics of borders, maps
Most of these countries are yet to supply safe tap water
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in development economics, environmental economics, health economics Tags: expressive voting, recycling, virtue signalling
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