DAVID FRIEDMAN – Anarchy Online: A World of Strong Privacy
24 Oct 2021 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, David Friedman, economics of crime, economics of regulation, international economics, law and economics, property rights
Peter J. Boettke: The Struggle for a Better World || The Human Progress Podcast Ep. 3
24 Oct 2021 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis
The Vehicle That Will Win World War Two – WW2 Special
24 Oct 2021 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War II
David Kennedy, Andrew Roberts and Stephen Kotkin Discuss the Big Three of the 20th Century
24 Oct 2021 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War II
The draft New Zealand history curriculum – a major rewrite is needed please….
24 Oct 2021 Leave a comment
It’s great that we will soon have a history curriculum. It needs to offer rich knowledge to all New Zealand school students, regardless of their socio-economic status, ethnicity or religion. As Elizabeth Rata and Briar Lipson would argue, rich disciplinary knowledge that all students possess is needed for equity, civil society and democracy.
The curriculum should also foster both the spirit and method of critical inquiry. It should challenge students to ask what motivated people in different historical contexts, what were they thinking, what did they need to take account of, and how did they expect others to behave.
The curriculum should make students aware of what the rest of the world has gifted us, and what we ourselves have created. It should encourage students to treasure their whakapapa of the mind, regardless of where their bloodline whakapapa came from. It should be centripetal in drawing people together, and not…
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New Competitiveness Rankings: Biden Wants to Copy the Wrong Nations
23 Oct 2021 Leave a comment
One of the my favorite publications from the Tax Foundation is the annual International Tax Competitiveness Index (here’s what I wrote in 2020 and 2019).
The 2021 Index, authored by Daniel Bunn and Elke Asen, has now been released, and you can see that Estonia has the most sensible policy.
Other Baltic nations also are highly ranked, as are Switzerland and New Zealand.
It’s probably no surprise to see nations such as France and Italy score so poorly, but Poland is a bit of a surprise.
Since most readers are from the United States, let’s specifically look at America’s rankings.
The U.S. does very will on consumption taxes (ranked #5), largely because we haven’t made the mistake of adding a value-added tax to our system.
By contrast, the U.S. is near the bottom (ranked #32) with regard to cross-border tax rules, though at least America…
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Glasgow’s ‘Green’ Agenda: Killing Meaningful Jobs & Depriving Poor of Meaningful Power
23 Oct 2021 Leave a comment
Anyone still thinking that ‘climate action’ is about saving the environment, hasn’t been paying attention: it’s a euphemism for massive and endless subsidies for wind and solar power generation and a meal ticket for billionaires already heavily invested in the greatest economic and environmental fraud of all time.
The upcoming climate cult gabfest in Glasgow does not involve any country serious about economic development and lasting prosperity. China and India and Russia will be no shows. These are countries that understand the benefit of reliable and affordable energy and the essential part it plays in national security and economic prosperity.
Australia is a country that generates a little over 1% of the world’s man-made carbon dioxide gas emissions, eradication of which can make absolutely no discernible difference to the weather, anywhere (if such relationship even exists – remember when it used to be called “global warming”, and then it wasn’t?)
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Steven Pinker: Rationality Saves Lives
23 Oct 2021 1 Comment
in economics of education, liberalism, Marxist economics Tags: conjecture and refutation, free speech, philosophy of science, political correctness, regressive left
Ricardo Versus Thornton on the Appropriate Monetary Response to Supply Shocks
23 Oct 2021 Leave a comment
in business cycles, economic growth, history of economic thought, macroeconomics, monetary economics Tags: monetary policy, real business cycles
Why didn’t Ireland Fight in World War 2?
23 Oct 2021 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: Ireland, World War II
Pumped hydro more expensive than batteries: apples-to-apples
23 Oct 2021 Leave a comment
A lot of effort in the article in SolarQuotes (that is the subject of the series that starts here) went into avoiding a direct, apples-to-apples comparison between hydro and batteries. That made me wonder what the result of such a comparison would be.
Let’s just jump in. This is what we are working with:
| Snowy Hydro 2.0 | Hornsdale battery | Victorian Big Battery | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Capacity (MW) | 2,000 | 100 | 300 |
| Storage (MWh) | 40,000+ | 129 | 450 |
| Price (million AU$) | 10,000 | 89 | 180 |
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Steven Pinker with Niall Ferguson at Live Talks Los Angeles
23 Oct 2021 Leave a comment
in economics of education, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics Tags: free speech, political correctness, regressive left
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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