Didn’t know of @ProfSteveKeen Rory Robertson bet! Bereft @NZTreasury doesn’t know who’s who in economics profession anymore!
01 Nov 2018 Leave a comment
in business cycles, economics of bureaucracy, global financial crisis (GFC), great recession, macroeconomics, monetary economics, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: Post-Keynesian macroeconomics
Lord Hain and Privilege: When power, wealth and abuse combine to subvert the rule of law – Paul Wragg
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The Bill of Rights 1689 is no different to any other piece of legislation; it must be read compatibly with the Human Rights Act 1998
Judges have their role to play, and Parliamentarians theirs, and “it is for the public to judge whether what I have done is right or wrong”, says Lord Peter Hain. Yet since Lord Hain chose to breach the court injunction issued by the Court of Appeal in ABC v Telegraph Group plc by hiding behind Parliamentary privilege, this is exactly what the public does not get to do.
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Robert Craig: The Peter Hain Case: The Effect of Article IX
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Peter Hain’s decision to breach an interim injunction granted by the Court of Appeal in the case of ABC v Telegraph Media Group has caused serious concern. It is one of the cardinal rules in Parliament that members should not interfere in ongoing legal proceedings and Hain did not wait until the end of the proceedings before breaching this injunction, even though the case had been scheduled for an early full hearing. He does not appear even to have read the court judgment he saw fit to overrule, effectively.
The duty of comity means that both judges and parliament must respect the others’ boundaries. If Hain’s decision to intervene in live proceedings is treated leniently by parliament, there must be some concern about whether the judiciary will continue to treat Article IX with its current level of extreme deference. Nevertheless this affair shows the importance of the core principle that…
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Elizabeth F. Loftus – False Memories
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in economics of crime, law and economics
My Problem With Mansplaining: Jonathan Pie
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in discrimination, gender Tags: political correctness
Why Young People Helped Elect A Far-Right Authoritarian In Brazil (HBO): the left-wing incumbents were crooks
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in development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, growth disasters, law and economics, Public Choice Tags: Brazil
Throwing water into the air at -52 below zero in fairbanks Alaska
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in economics of media and culture
How Different Are Different Types of Dogs?
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Tory MP fails to understand Glaswegian accent of SNP’s David Linden
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The Time Rock & Roll Saved Free speech
31 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
in economic history, law and economics, Music, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: free speech
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