Demonetarised by @YouTube: Sex Research, Asian Discrimination, and #MeToo @DrDebraSoh interview
08 Sep 2018 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of crime, economics of education, gender, health economics, labour economics, law and economics Tags: free speech, political correctness, regressive left
Stakeholders, The Treasury, and economic failure
08 Sep 2018 Leave a comment
The Treasury runs a survey of external stakeholders every couple of years, and usually publishes the results on their website quite quickly. Last year, the results weren’t very good, so they delayed publishing them. In fact, it was only a few days ago, in response to an OIA request from Eric Crampton at the New Zealand Initiative, that they finally released them.
As Eric notes the results aren’t all bad, but
Among those people interacting with Treasury about its core business of economics, macroeconomics, and fiscal projection, satisfaction dropped from 70% in 2015 to 47% in 2017. The proportion of stakeholders viewing Treasury staff as well-informed dropped significantly, as did overall confidence that staff do a good job, that Treasury challenges thinking on critical issues, and that Treasury can offer insights.
Eric has been concerned for some time about The Treasury’s de-emphasis on core economics and finance skills in…
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Legal Weed: The Great Social Experiment @_chloeswarbrick a master class in legislative drafting @cjsbishop
08 Sep 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of regulation, health economics, law and economics, Public Choice Tags: economics of prohibition, marijuana decriminalisation, offsetting behaviour, unintended consequences
There were big improvements in maternal medicine even from the 1920s to the 1960s
08 Sep 2018 Leave a comment
in economic history, gender, health economics, population economics
Lukianoff and Haidt on the dangers of human tribalism – THE CODDLING OF THE AMERICAN MIND @glukianoff @JonHaidt
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in discrimination, economics of crime, economics of media and culture, gender, law and economics, liberalism, politics - USA Tags: political correctness, regressive left
The Case for the Norway Option
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in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, international economics Tags: Brexit
Henry Hazlett explains Marxism
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in applied price theory, Austrian economics, economic history, entrepreneurship, Marxist economics, poverty and inequality Tags: Henry Hazlett
That Time a Passenger Loaded Boeing 767 Ran Out of Fuel Mid Flight
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in transport economics Tags: air crash investigations
Red Terror in Soviet Russia I THE GREAT WAR Week 215
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
#AskMeFirst: The left’s shameful response to Laura will push more women to the right
07 Sep 2018 Leave a comment
On 20 February, conservative lobby group Family First New Zealand launched a campaign called Ask Me First, in response to the “growing trend in both New Zealand schools and public places to allow men to enter women’s spaces — female toilets, showers, changing rooms, camp bunk rooms, and sports teams.” A key campaign video amplifies the voice of an 18-year-old high school student called Laura, who is concerned about female-only spaces being opened up to males on the basis of “gender identity”.
Laura explains that at her all girls’ high school early last year,
we got news that this student wanted to be in this school, this guy. And the school granted him access. As the year progressed, he wanted access to the female bathrooms. At that point, I was like “No, this isn’t right.”
Cue the liberal backlash. Journalists on the left are completely ignoring the implications to…
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Weather Wages War on Wind Power: Typhoon Topples Turbine in Japan
07 Sep 2018 Leave a comment
How ironic it is that a wholly weather dependent power source has such a bitterly hard time coping with the … ahem … weather.
When Hurricane Maria visited Puerto Rico last year, she managed to splatter wind turbine blades all over the island, leaving residents completely powerless: Weather Dependent Wind Power: Leaves Hurricane Victims Powerless
A typhoon in Taiwan did much the same:
And lightning has been laying them to waste in Ireland:
It’s almost as if Mother Nature has got it in for these things? This time a little blow in Japan managed to knock another one out of the game.
Awaji Island wind turbine topples over as typhoon cuts through western Japan
The Japan Times
Kyodo
24 August 2018
KOBE – A 60-meter-high wind turbine erected in a park on Awaji Island in Hyogo Prefecture toppled over in the early hours of Friday as powerful Typhoon Cimaron…
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