The Numbers Game: How’s The Middle Class Doing?
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in economics of education Tags: pessimism bias
How Bobby Fischer smashed Scandinavian Defense
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in economics of media and culture Tags: chess
How Bamboo slowly kills the Panda – The Bamboo Problem
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in economics of media and culture
Former CIA Chief Explains How Spies Use Disguises | WIRED
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in defence economics, economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA
The current state of the economy Edward Prescott 2012
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in business cycles, Edward Prescott, fiscal policy, global financial crisis (GFC), great recession, macroeconomics Tags: real business cycle theory
Why next to no gender pay gap for British women under 40?
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in discrimination, gender, labour economics
Source: Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) – Office for National Statistics
European Court of Human Rights upholds blasphemy law: Defaming the Prophet Muhammad or his marriage to a six year old girl hurts people’s “religious feelings”
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Looks like the Reformation is illegal under current European law. All that stuff about the Pope being the Antichrist.
I’m gobsmacked, as I hadn’t been aware of this case. This comes from the Andelou Agency, a Turkish website, so it’s not gonna be critical of this decision.
The text:
Strasbourg: Defaming the Prophet Muhammed “goes beyond the permissible limits of an objective debate” and “could stir up prejudice and put at risk religious peace” and thus exceeds the permissible limits of freedom of expression, ruled the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Thursday, upholding a lower court decision.
The decision by a seven-judge panel came after an Austrian national identified as Mrs. S. held two seminars in 2009, entitled “Basic Information on Islam,” in which she defamed the Prophet Muhammad’s marriage.
According to a statement released by the court on Thursday, the Vienna Regional Criminal Court found that these statements implied that Muhammad had pedophilic tendencies, and in February 2011 convicted Mrs. S. for disparaging religious doctrines.
She…
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‘Green’ Killing Fields: Wind Turbines Responsible for Massive & Unnecessary Bird Slaughter
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Golden Eagle ‘transitions’ to California’s wind powered future …
Renewable energy zealots didn’t invent hypocrisy, but they seem quite comfortable wearing it, like their very own badge of honour.
If wind power was even close to being a meaningful power generation source, you might, just might justify the wave of environmental and societal destruction that comes with it. Abandoned centuries ago for pretty obvious reasons, wind power was redundant the moment James Watt turned steam into motive force.
The wind cult, however, have no difficulty in justifying the destruction of pristine landscapes; the dismemberment of once cohesive, rural communities; the creation of toxic waste lands in China (where the rare earths essential to wind turbines are processed); power prices that punish the poorest and most vulnerable in society; and barely bat an eyelid at the slaughter of millions upon millions of birds and bats, across the globe.
The carnage…
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BDS Movement Debate | Oxford Union
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in discrimination, International law, law and economics Tags: Israel
Alan Dershowitz on why Noam Chomsky deserves a Nobel Prize in lying
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in defence economics, economics of crime, International law, law and economics, laws of war, war and peace Tags: Gaza Strip, Hamas, Israel, Middle-East politics, Noam Chomsky
Joan Robinson was a useful idiot on North Korea too
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in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, Marxist economics, Public Choice Tags: fall of communism, North Korea, useful idiots
The Supreme Court’s Next Climate Change Case?
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Phil Goldberg writes at RealClearPolicy The Supreme Court’s Next Climate Change Case? Excerpts in italics with my bolds.
The U.S. Supreme Court is about to get a look at the latest attempt by environmentalists and their political allies to bypass legislatures and use the courts to enact their climate-change agenda. So far, they have sued America’s energy producers in hopes of having judges, not regulators, set carbon emission limits and making energy producers pay for local infrastructure projects to deal with the impacts of climate change. As the Progressive Policy Institute has explained, selling fossil fuels is not illegal, and sensible people on both sides of the aisle have long agreed that these actions have no foundation in the law.
Indeed, this litigation has already percolated up to the U.S. Supreme Court once. In a unanimous ruling authored by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Court made it clear that…
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