Good question on bike safety for @JulieAnneGenter
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in transport economics Tags: road safety
F A Hayek – The Power Of Pricing
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in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, F.A. Hayek, industrial organisation, poverty and inequality Tags: anti-market bias
But slippery @jamespeshaw says it is too hard to estimate to cost of global warming as a percentage of GDP @mfe_news
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Corruption: A China case study
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in development economics, economics of crime, growth miracles, law and economics Tags: economics of corruption
Lenin on The Train by Catherine Merridale (2016)
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Dominic Lieven’s book about the diplomatic build-up to the Great War – Towards The Flame – was very demanding, every page full of analyses and counter-analyses of complex international situations, which took a good deal of concentration to understand.
By contrast, Catherine Merridale’s book is like a series of articles in a travel supplement, or the book version of a TV script – chatty, opinionated, entertaining, lightweight and, in the end, a bit disappointing.
The story
In April 1917 the German High command laid on a sealed train to transport Lenin and 30 or so communist colleagues to war-weary Russia, in the hope that his subversive activities would weaken the Russian war machine. It was a strategy they’d been trying elsewhere. The Germans were arming independence fighters in Ireland and trying to foment rebellion against British rule in India.
This book sets out to recreate Lenin’s fateful journey, describing the broader context…
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Austerity Britain: A World to Build 1945–48 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 (to date; the plan is to take them up to 1979) have been published as three volumes, each of which – rather confusingly – contains two ‘books’:
- Austerity Britain, 1945–51 (2007) containing:
- Family Britain, 1951–57 (2009) containing:
- Modernity Britain, 1957–62 (2014) containing:
- Opening the Box, 1957–59
- A Shake of the Dice, 1959–62
Should one review the portmanteau volume – Austerity Britain (692 pages long in its current Bloomsbury paperback edition) – or the two ‘books’ it contains? I’ve chosen the latter option, because each of the ‘books’ is so dense and packed with information that they require separate posts.
Approach
What makes the…
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Byzantine Emperors 324-802
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This blog post uses the timeline of Byzantine emperors from Wikipedia and then adds details and comments from John Julius Norwich’s book Byzantium: The Early Centuries.
Constantine I ‘the Great’ (324-337)
Son of the Augustus Constantius Chlorus and Helena. Proclaimed Augustus of the western empire upon the death of his father on 25 July 306, he became sole ruler of the western empire after the Battle of the Milvian Bridge in 312. In 324, he defeated the eastern Augustus Licinius and re-united the empire under his rule, reigning as sole emperor until his death. Constantine completed the administrative and military reforms begun under Diocletian, who had begun ushering in the Dominate period. Actively interested in Christianity, he played a crucial role in its development and the Christianization of the Roman world, through his convocation of the First Ecumenical Council at Nicaea. He re-founded the city of Byzantium as ‘New…
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Victims shunning restorative justice is a worldwide trend @sst_nz
10 May 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, politics - New Zealand
Most victims want nothing to do with restorative justice conferences @sst_nz
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in economics of crime, politics - New Zealand
Which is more important? The gap or which women do the least unpaid housework?
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in development economics, discrimination, economics of love and marriage, gender, growth miracles, labour economics, labour supply Tags: marriage and divorce
Deterrence must work if this strategy to sabotage what appears to be a well-functioning market for drug quality is to work?
10 May 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, economics of information
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