How To Survive the Little Ice Age
28 Oct 2021 1 Comment
in economic history, economics of education, economics of media and culture, environmental economics, global warming Tags: Little ice age
What Was the Industrial Revolution?
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in development economics, economic growth, economic history, economics of education, financial economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, occupational choice, property rights, Robert E. Lucas Tags: Great Enrichment, industrial revolution
The Boxer and the Goalkeeper: Sartre versus Camus by Andy Martin (2012)
27 Oct 2021 Leave a comment
Martin’s savvy, streetwise, wordplayful book is a joint biography of the two great mid-twentieth century French writers, Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus.
It’s told in a popular, punning, jokey style which is hip to the sex, drugs and rock’n’roll reputation of these two top thinkers and proceeds by the themes, ideas and associations of their writings more than strict chronology.
This is plain enough from the title which refers to the fact that young Sartre was a boxer at school, whereas Camus is famous – to anyone who cares about these things – for being the goalkeeper for various soccer teams in his native Algeria. The aggressive pugilist spoiling for a fight, and the cautious backstop with time to admire the view – this is just one of the many dichotomies Martin uses to build up a portrait of these two complex men.
Like the ‘New Journalism’ of the 1960s…
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The Rebel by Albert Camus (1951)
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The logic of the rebel is to want to serve justice so as not to add to the injustice of the human condition, to insist on plain language so as not to increase the universal falsehood, and to wager, in spite of human misery, for happiness. (p.248)
Camus was already one of the leading writers of his day when he published his long philosophical essay, The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt, in 1951. Many critics consider it his best and most important book. At 270 pages in this Penguin translation, The Rebel is well over twice the length of his previous essay, The Myth of Sisyphus. It is a very long recapitulation of the history of political violence from the French Revolution to Stalin’s show trials, designed to refute arguments for revolutionary violence or state terror, and to affirm positive, humanistic values.
But because it comes out of the…
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Grand Cover-Up: Sierra Club Conceals American’s Growing Hostility to Wind Power
27 Oct 2021 Leave a comment
The Sierra Club reckons wind power is the future, but hundreds of industrial wind projects have been canned across the USA, and plenty more are being quietly withdrawn, thanks to growing community resentment and hostility towards industrial wind power.
The only way to prevent industrial wind power from destroying your hitherto peaceful and prosperous community is to fight, and that’s exactly what Americans are doing across its heartland.
Over the last 20 years, these things have drawn community opprobrium for generating a thumping, grinding cacophony that destroys the ability of residents to live and sleep in their homes; for wrecking property values; and creating a visual nightmare reminiscent of the War the Worlds.
So, is it any surprise that in the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave people are fighting with increasing fury to preserve their communities, homes and properties?
Applying pressure to local governments and…
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Finn E. Kydland’s (Nobel Laureate) Speech at the WHU – New Year’s Conference 17
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in budget deficits, business cycles, development economics, econometerics, economic growth, economic history, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, fiscal policy, global financial crisis (GFC), great recession, growth disasters, growth miracles, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, monetary economics, poverty and inequality, Robert E. Lucas Tags: real business cycles
David Friedman
27 Oct 2021 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, David Friedman, economics of crime, financial economics, law and economics, property rights
Lecture 5: Firm-level misallocation: benchmark model and early results
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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