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In July, 2021, a group of seven University of Auckland academics (two now deceased) published a letter in the Magazine “the Listener” saying that the local (Māori) “ways of knowing”, or Mātauranga Māori (MM), while of significant cultural, sociological, and anthropological value, was not equivalent to modern science. It was written because the New Zealand…
University of Auckland continues to promote indigenous ways of knowing while not allowing a promised debate between that and modern science
13 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
Back in 2003, I wrote this for Walter Block’s I Chose Liberty: Autobiographies of Contemporary Libertarians. I’m planning on extending by the end of this academic year (though I kind of already did). Enjoy!High SchoolIt began with Ayn Rand, as it proverbially does. I was in 11th grade journalism class with Matt Mayers, my friend…
Intellectual Autobiography of Bryan Caplan
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In yesterday’s PREFU The Treasury was quite open about the fiscal impulse – the estimated impact of discretionary fiscal choices on demand and domestic inflation pressures in the current year. In other words, a slightly larger degree of pressure on resources/inflation in the year to June 2024 than they’d thought in May’s Budget (and anything […]
Fiscal impulses and fiscal spin
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Citizen Science writes – One of the strangest aspects of entering Transworld, as a parent, is the absolute prohibition on not only discussion or analysis, but even thought, on whether it is a good idea to agree with small children and tumultuous teenagers that their gender doesn’t match their body, and that therefore their […]
CITIZEN SCIENCE: Social justice warriors
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By Paul Homewood h/t Philip Bratby Just one more cost burden from Net Zero: Households face an estimated bill of £2,300 each to shut down Britain’s gas grid as part of the Government’s drive towards net zero, a leaked draft of an official report suggests. The cost of decommissioning the grid […]
Households face £2,300 bills under net zero plans
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in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
Listen to the wind and sun cult and you’d think that Small Modular Nuclear Reactors are a work of far-fetched Science Fiction. The reality is that some 200 small nuclear reactors are presently powering 160 ships and submarines all around the world, and have been for decades. None of which sits with the narrative pitched by […]
Simply Irresistible: Why Plugging Into Small Modular Reactors Makes Perfect Sense
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Mexico in the nineteenth century presents a dramatic example of this problem. Mexico suffered extreme political instability and strife in the nineteenth century. There were 800 revolts between 1821 and 1875. Between independence in 1821 and 1900, Mexico had 72 different chief executives, meaning that the average term was only a little more than one […]
How Mexico built a state (that was then, this is now)
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In one of the best papers of the year, Anna Stansbury and Larry Summers present what is to me the best non-“Great Stagnation” story of what has gone wrong, and I have read many such accounts. Here is their abstract: Rising profitability and market valuations of US businesses, sluggish wage growth and a declining labor […]
Stansbury and Summers on the declining bargaining power of labor
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The battlelines have been drawn. The campaign to win the right to govern New Zealand has begun. Four recent polls signal the tide is going out for Labour. The Roy Morgan poll has National on 31 percent, Labour on 24 percent, ACT on 18 percent, the Greens on 12.5 percent, New Zealand First on 5.5…
MURIEL NEWMAN: A Broken Country
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in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
Credit: Scottish Power Hydrogen is no more the wonder gas than CO2 is the opposite. Apart from being very expensive to produce using so-called ‘green’ methods, it’s running into various obstacles elsewhere, such as absence of infrastructure. – – – Europe’s time spent sleepwalking to the tune of hydrogen lobbyists – draining funds and political […]
EU reality check – waking up from hydrogen daydreams
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in economics of crime, industrial organisation, law and economics
Many of you have written in and asked what I think of president Bukele throwing all those gang members (and possibly others) in jail without much due process. I do hope to learn more about this, including possibly with a trip to El Salvador later this year. In the meantime, I say let’s put aside […]
El Salvador and the elasticity of supply
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Netflix has a new documentary on Blue Zones, regions in the world such as Okinawa Prefecture, Japan; Nuoro Province, Sardinia, Italy; the Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica; Icaria, Greece; and Loma Linda, California, where people appear to live “extraordinarily long and vibrant lives.” What are the secrets of such blue zones and how can you live […]
The Real Secret of Blue Zones
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