The Magic of Being “In the Zone”
20 Mar 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture Tags: cognitive psychology
A solution for gerrymandering
20 Mar 2019 Leave a comment
in politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: gerrymandering
President Reagan is Stunned by the Scale of Soviet Espionage
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in defence economics, economics of crime, law and economics, war and peace Tags: Cold War
David D. Friedman | Will Strong Encryption Protect Privacy and Make Government Obsolete?
20 Mar 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, David Friedman, economics of crime, economics of information, law and economics, property rights
The 10 greatest cricket world cup matches….
19 Mar 2019 Leave a comment
ESPNcricnfo.com has been running a series of 10 best world cup matches. Here they go:
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The Russian Civil War in Early 1919 I THE GREAT WAR
19 Mar 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
It is much too easy to win headlines – and then be treated leniently – for assaulting MPs
19 Mar 2019 Leave a comment
It’s rare for a politician in New Zealand to be mugged while out walking, broadcaster Barry Soper observed after Green Party co-leader James was assaulted in Wellington last week, although many had got into “skirmishes” when out doing their job.
The attack on Shaw prompted the PM to say New Zealanders should be proud of the access New Zealanders have to their politicians, whose job is to serve the people, but this assault showed they can’t take that for granted.
Soper recalled National’s Lockwood Smith once being forced to take a back door out of a university rather than face angry students as Education Minister.
But the last time a politician had been “supposedly attacked” while out walking was Keith Allen, a Minister in the Muldoon Government in 1983.
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Uncertainty in Climate Change, with William Nordhaus @jamespeshaw @Mfe_News
19 Mar 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: carbon tax
The Tragedy of the Commons
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in applied price theory, economics of information, law and economics, property rights Tags: tragedy of the commons
Guardian gets Israeli ‘move right’ completely wrong
19 Mar 2019 Leave a comment
In a March 14th article, the Guardian’s Jerusalem correspondent Oliver Holmes attempts to explain, in advance of upcoming national elections, the decline of the Israeli peace camp. However, beyond quoting several completely non-representative Israelis, such Yehuda Shaul, founder of the NGO Breaking the Silence, and the self-described non-Zionist Haaretz reporter Amira Haas, Holmes’ piece (The fall of the Israeli peace movement, and why leftists continues to fight”) offers no actual analysis of the ‘death of the left’ and what describes as the country’s “wild lurch to the right”.
Fortunately, this very topic was the focus of a very insightful piece by Yossi Klein Halevi in The Atlantic:
…the second intifada—which began in 2000, shortly after Barak accepted the principle of a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital, and which resulted in thousands of deaths and injuries among Israelis and Palestinians—remains the great Israeli trauma of this…
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