Thepublica reports: A 20-year-old woman in Hamburg, Germany, has been sent to prison after making “hateful” remarks towards a migrant who was involved in the gang rape of a child. The woman is just one of 140 people being investigated for making “harmful comments” towards the rapists. However, despite DNA and WhatsApp evidence, eight of the nine men […]
Beyond crazy
Beyond crazy
01 Jul 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics Tags: free speech, Germany, political correctness, regressive left
French North America
01 Jul 2024 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of media and culture Tags: maps
Trump’s Backdoor to Open Borders
30 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of education, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, politics - USA Tags: 2024 presidential election, economics of immigration
Donald Trump recently endorsed a glorious-on-net immigration proposal: giving a green card to every foreigner who graduates from a U.S. university. I was stunned when I read the fine print: Let me just tell you that it’s so sad when we lose people from Harvard, MIT, from the greater schools and lesser schools that are…
Trump’s Backdoor to Open Borders
Creative destruction
30 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in economic history, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, survivor principle
Five Questions Congress Should’ve Asked the Climate Cartel
30 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economics of natural disasters, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmism
SG investing promises nebulous profits in some far-off future, but my friends and family whose retirements rely on CalPERS need it to perform better today instead of doubling down on its money-losing ways.
Five Questions Congress Should’ve Asked the Climate Cartel
Hayley Hooper: Historical Origins of the ‘Principle of Legality’ in British Public Law
30 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of bureaucracy, law and economics, Public Choice, public economics Tags: British constitutional law
In 2021 the then Lord Chancellor Robert Buckland QC MP cited the principle of legality as an example of an aspect of public law that might ‘take on a life of [its] own, and lead to the courts overreaching.’ In the simplest terms, the principle of legality is a common law rule of statutory interpretation […]
Hayley Hooper: Historical Origins of the ‘Principle of Legality’ in British Public Law
Russia’s New Offensive – The Russian Women’s Battalion of Death I THE GR…
30 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
Needed in Empirical Social Science: Numbers
29 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in econometerics, history of economic thought
By Aaron S. Edlin and Michael Love: Knowing the magnitude and standard error of an empirical estimate is much more important than simply knowing the estimate’s sign and whether it is statistically significant. Yet, we find that even in top journals, when empirical social scientists choose their headline results – the results they put in […]
Needed in Empirical Social Science: Numbers
The true cost of Labour’s net zero plans is slowly being revealed – and the sums are staggering
29 Jun 2024 1 Comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: British politics, climate alarmism
By Paul Homewood h/t Philip Bratby . At least the Telegraph is starting to dismantle Mad Miliband’s crazy agenda: . Sir Keir Starmer has promised that a new Labour government would decarbonise the UK’s electricity system by 2030 and would, at the same time, reduce average energy bills by up to £300 or roughly […]
The true cost of Labour’s net zero plans is slowly being revealed – and the sums are staggering
The Evolving Economic Role of Women: Goldin’s Nobel Lecture
29 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economic history, economics of education, gender, history of economic thought, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality Tags: gender wage gap, sex discrimination
Claudia Goldin’s Nobel prize lecture, “An Evolving Economic Force,” has now been published in the June 2024 issue of the American Economic Review. Or if you prefer, you can watch the watch the lecture (with more numerous slides!) from the link at the Nobel website. She writes: Women are now at the center of the…
The Evolving Economic Role of Women: Goldin’s Nobel Lecture
Good list
29 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of education Tags: conjecture and refutation, philosophy of science
What does RN stand for in the pending French election?
28 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, economic growth, economic history, fiscal policy, income redistribution, labour economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics, Public Choice Tags: France
The RN intends to move ahead with a proposed law that states as its aim “to combat Islamist ideologies”. It includes measures to make it easier to close mosques and deport imams deemed to be radicalised, and a ban on clothing that “constitute in themselves an unequivocal and ostentatious affirmation” of Islamist ideology. Bardella said […]
What does RN stand for in the pending French election?
Global Warming Myths Debunked by IPCC Expert Gregory Wrightstone
28 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of natural disasters, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmism
What if more CO2 in the atmosphere is good for Mother Earth and beneficial for all life on the planet? What if global warming is not an existential threat to humanity?
Global Warming Myths Debunked by IPCC Expert Gregory Wrightstone
Totally Risible: Wind Industry Couldn’t Power Australia’s Toasters & Kettles
28 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia Tags: wind power
When the wind stops blowing, wind power stops flowing. It’s that simple. If anyone is looking for proof that wind power is always and everywhere entirely dependent on the weather. Here it is. The graphic above comes from the boys over at Aneroid Energy and it depicts the output from every single wind turbine connected […]
Totally Risible: Wind Industry Couldn’t Power Australia’s Toasters & Kettles
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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