Celebrating humanity's flourishing through the spread of capitalism and the rule of law
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in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: 2024 presidential election
President Joe Biden delivered an address from the White House last night on the presidential immunity decision by the Supreme Court. While pledging that he will defend the rule of law, President Biden misrepresented what that law is in the aftermath of Trump v. United States. While we have often discussed false constitutional claims by […]
No, President Biden, the Supreme Court Did Not Remove Any Limits on the Presidency
02 Jul 2024 1 Comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: electric cars
By Paul Homewood h/t Ian Magness Ray Bestwick bought an electric car last May in the hope of hassle-free motoring. But with eight trips to the garage in little more than a year, the 62-year-old engineer cannot wait to put an end to his “soul-destroying” experience. The Renault Megane E-Tech driver isn’t the only […]
‘My electric car has been soul-destroying – I can’t wait to go back to petrol’
02 Jul 2024 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, economics of crime, law and economics, war and peace Tags: Ireland
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in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: 2020 presidential election, 2024 presidential election
Below is my column in the Hill on the Supreme Court decision on Friday in Fischer v. U.S. to reject hundreds of charges in January 6th cases for the obstruction of legal proceedings. For many cases, that will leave relatively minor offenses like trespass or unlawful entry. It is only the latest blow to efforts […]
Insurrection-Lite: The Supreme Court Downsizes the “Insurrection” to Largely Trespassing
01 Jul 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics Tags: free speech, Germany, political correctness, regressive left
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
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in economic history, economics of media and culture Tags: maps
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
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in economic history, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, survivor principle
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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
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
30 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
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
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
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
Celebrating humanity's flourishing through the spread of capitalism and the rule of law
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