Jay Bhattacharya on the Pandemic 12/21/20
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in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, economic history, health economics, politics - USA Tags: economics of pandemics
David Friedman on VV – Consequentialism, Property, Objective Ethics, “Anarcho”-Communism
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in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, David Friedman, defence economics, economics of crime, law and economics, property rights
How Mussolini Founded The Italian Fascist Party I THE GREAT WAR 1921
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in defence economics, economic history, Marxist economics, war and peace Tags: Italy, World War I
COP That Wind & Solar: Nuclear Power Drives French Renewables Resistance
13 Nov 2021 Leave a comment
The French already get more than 70% of their power from nuclear plants. Now, thanks to a massive month-long wind power output collapse, that proportion is destined to increase.
Following Europe’s ‘disastrous’ wind drought – that saw wind power output plummet throughout most of September and into October, and early November – the need for reliable power was never more keenly felt.
Eager to avoid being locked into Russian gas supplies, like his German neighbours, French President, Emmanuel Macron has decided to reverse France’s policy of winding down its nuclear power generation fleet in favour of wind and solar, backed up with costly to run gas-fired plants.
Channelling the little Corsican, Napoleon’s thirst for French independence, Macron has given a resounding ‘oui’ to nuclear power, with plans to commence construction of new nuclear plants, ASAP. Much to the horror of the hard-green-left. Here’s a short report from Sky News’…
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Bjorn Lomborg | Don’t waste trillions on BAD Climate Policy
13 Nov 2021 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmism
The Fiscal and monetary response to Covid-19: what the Great Depression has (and hasn’t) taught us George Selgin
13 Nov 2021 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, budget deficits, business cycles, fiscal policy, great depression, health economics, history of economic thought, international economics, labour economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics, unemployment Tags: economics of pandemics
The Taliban, explained
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in development economics, war and peace Tags: Afghanistan, war against terror
Norwegian Court Slams Noisy Wind Farms Wrecking Reindeer Herders’ Lives & Livelihoods
12 Nov 2021 Leave a comment
Norway’s Supreme Court has stripped two wind farms of their operating licenses for wrecking the lives of Sami reindeer herders.
Life in the frozen North was never meant to be easy – sub-zero temperatures and stark isolation are tough enough, but Sami reindeer herders have drawn the line at the adverse effect the visual and auditory cacophony these things generate has on their livestock.
Giant 260m turbines with 60m blades generate shadow flicker and pulsing, thumping low-frequency noise – a well-known source of disturbance for grazing (and other) animals; reindeer apparently no exception.
For centuries, the nomadic Sami have herded their reindeer across northern Europe’s frozen tundra, ranging across the north of Norway, Sweden, Finland and the Kola Peninsula. And have done so untouched by industry and urbanization. Until now.
Over the last decade or so, hundreds of these things have been speared across their grazing rangelands.
Not afraid…
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The Life of George II, King of Great Britain and Ireland, Elector of Hanover. Part II.
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As king, George II exercised little control over British domestic policy, which was largely controlled by the Parliament of Great Britain. As Elector of Hanover, he spent twelve summers in Hanover, where he had more direct control over government policy. He had a difficult relationship with his eldest son, Frederick Louis, the Prince of Wales, who supported the parliamentary opposition.
When George visited Hanover in the summers of 1729, 1732 and 1735, he left his wife to chair the regency council in Britain rather than his son. Meanwhile, rivalry between George II and his brother-in-law and first cousin Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia led to tension along the Prussian–Hanoverian border, which eventually culminated in the mobilization of troops in the border zone and suggestions of a duel between the two kings.
Negotiations for a marriage between the Prince of Wales and Friedrich Wilhelm’s daughter Wilhelmine dragged on for years but…
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Could deflation be salvation? George Selgin | Adam Smith Institute
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in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, business cycles, economic growth, economic history, history of economic thought, macroeconomics, monetary economics Tags: monetary policy
The Life of George II, King of Great Britain and Ireland, Elector of Hanover. Part II.
12 Nov 2021 Leave a comment
As king, George II exercised little control over British domestic policy, which was largely controlled by the Parliament of Great Britain. As Elector of Hanover, he spent twelve summers in Hanover, where he had more direct control over government policy. He had a difficult relationship with his eldest son, Frederick Louis, the Prince of Wales, who supported the parliamentary opposition.
When George visited Hanover in the summers of 1729, 1732 and 1735, he left his wife to chair the regency council in Britain rather than his son. Meanwhile, rivalry between George II and his brother-in-law and first cousin Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia led to tension along the Prussian–Hanoverian border, which eventually culminated in the mobilization of troops in the border zone and suggestions of a duel between the two kings.
Negotiations for a marriage between the Prince of Wales and Friedrich Wilhelm’s daughter Wilhelmine dragged on for years but…
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Richard Dimbleby and Dirk Bogarde’s accounts on what they saw in Bergen Belsen
12 Nov 2021 Leave a comment

It absolutely amazes me that in this day and age there are still people who deny that the Holocaust ever happened. In fact there appears to be an increase of Holocaust deniers.
Some use the picture above, of liberated women in Bergen Belsen as their ‘evidence’ that the Holocaust was a myth. They say of you look at the picture you can see that the women are healthy and seem to be happy. Well of course they were happy, they had just been liberated and they may appear to be healthy, but they are fully covered up and you can’t see the scars and bruises. Additionally some were ‘healthy’ because the human soul and mind is a powerful thing, they just kept going no matter what.
From late 1944, food rations throughout Bergen-Belsen continued to shrink. By early 1945, prisoners would sometimes go without food for days; fresh water was…
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