Why Is The Measles Virus So Contagious?
08 May 2019 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: vaccines
.@mfe_news advised @jamespeshaw that a net zero carbon economy will cut annual GDP growth by 1/10 or more. Is that a 4% reduction in GDP by 2050?
08 May 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economic growth, economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, income redistribution, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, resource economics Tags: climate alarmism
What a scientist suggests you tell your kids about legal marijuana
07 May 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, economics of education, economics of information, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, health economics, human capital, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: marijuana decrimilization
5 Reasons Progressives Should Support Israel – Alan Dershowitz
07 May 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, International law, law and economics, Public Choice, war and peace Tags: Israel
Hume didn’t hold back but will this be hate speech if @NZGreens get their way?
07 May 2019 Leave a comment
NZ Cannabis Referendum – #1 : Little assumes we are all stoned as he brazenly misleads with his referendum announcement
07 May 2019 Leave a comment
Given that this is a topic that will be an ongoing political issue in NZ for some considerable time – this is the first in a series of posts about this issue and related matters
So Andrew Little has released the approach being taken regarding the cannabis referendum
There are several immediate concerns which come to mind and no doubt as things are clarified over the coming months some will prove to be unfounded. Though I will be pleasantly surprised if that proves to be the case.
First though let us address the rather peculiar interpretation placed on the concept of binding used by Mr. Little (from Jane Patterson at RNZ)
Cabinet ministers have agreed the referendum will be binding, based on agreement by all three governing parties.
“The voters’ choice will be binding because all of the parties that make up the current government…
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A “speech wars” section of The Atlantic
07 May 2019 Leave a comment
I’d like to call your attention to a fairly new feature of The Atlantic that began last fall: a series of columns and short pieces gathered under the rubric (and webpage) called “The Speech Wars”. Click on the screenshot to go there:
The topics and viewpoints are diverse, but all have something to do with the rights of people to say what they want, and the counterspeech against it. There are pro- and con-columns about Ilhan Omar’s statements, columns about hate speech, about the demonization of Harvard’s Ronald Sullivan, a house master and lawyer who is defending Harvey Weinstein as a client, and so on. Here’s a small screenshot:
You won’t agree with everything—how could you when the pieces sometimes take diametrically opposed stands?—but you’ll probably benefit most by reading things you don’t agree with. After all, isn’t that one of the great boons of free speech?
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