#OTD Trudeau – just watch me
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in economic history, economics of crime, law and economics Tags: Canada
Voyage of SMS Emden
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in defence economics, laws of war, war and peace Tags: World War I
Robert Lucas 1995
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in business cycles, econometerics, economic growth, economic history, great depression, history of economic thought, labour economics, macroeconomics, Milton Friedman, monetarism, monetary economics, Robert E. Lucas, unemployment Tags: real business cycles
Environmental Disaster: Wind Turbines Continually Catch Fire, Throw Blades & Collapse
15 Oct 2021 Leave a comment
California’s wind power proponents promised a clean, green future – instead, they’ve delivered a wholesale environmental disaster.
In the desert surrounding Ocotillo, locals have been putting up with wind turbines self-immolating, throwing their blades in all directions, leaking and spraying oil and collapsing to the desert floor, for years now (see our post here).
Here’s a tale of what a ‘clean’, ‘green’ energy future really looks like.
Ocotillo Wind Turbine Collapses Again
East County Magazine
Henri Migala and Miriam Raftery
20 September 2021
Residents in Ocotillo are voicing concerns after yet another wind turbine collapse at the Ocotillo Wind Energy facility. There were no injuries or damage to other structures when the 300-foot-tall turbine crashed to the desert floor at the trouble-prone facility on Thursday, September 16. But residents are raising serious questions over public safety at the site, which produces energy to SDG&E to power the San Diego…
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Sports Stadiums Are Bad Public Investments. So Why Are Cities Still Paying for Them?
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Book Review: “Medicine in the Middle Ages: Surviving the Times” by Juliana Cummings
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The period of human history that we know today as the Middle Ages spanned over a thousand years, and within that time, significant progress was made into understanding our world. Inventions and discoveries were made not just in Europe but throughout the known world during this time. One area of study that saw a lot of change was medical studies and understanding the human body. How did physicians heal the sick during the Middle Ages, and how did their experiences change their field of study? These questions and more are all explored in Juliana Cummings’ latest book, “Medicine in the Middle Ages: Surviving the Times.”
I want to thank Pen and Sword Books and Net Galley for sending me a copy of this book. I like learning about aspects from the past, so when I saw this title, I was interested in reading it. I am not usually curious about…
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Controlled Experiments
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An interesting story – and for those so inclined, an amusing one – out of the United States.
How Amish Communities Became The First To Achieve Covid “Herd Immunity”.
A reporter interviewed members of the Amish communities in Pennsylvania to see how they’ve been handling Covid-19 without electricity, TV or the Internet, with limited phones and basically just being cut off from the outside world, as has been their practice since their founding in the US over a century ago.
The Amish are a Christian group that emphasizes the virtuous over the superficial. They don’t usually drive, use electricity, or have TVs. And during the Covid-19 outbreak, they became subjects in a massive social and medical experiment.
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After a short shutdown last year, the Amish chose a unique path that led to Covid-19 tearing through at warp speed. It began with an important religious holiday in May.
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David Friedman, James Bennett | Space Development Property Rights & Legal Considerations
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in David Friedman, economics of crime, law and economics, property rights Tags: space
Peter J. Boettke — “Regulation and Entrepreneurship”
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in applied price theory, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, economic history, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, law and economics, property rights, survivor principle
The Other October Crisis: The Sino-Indian War of 1962
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: China, Cold War, Cuba, India
Chris Sims – “How to Worry About Government Debt”
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in budget deficits, business cycles, economic growth, economic history, financial economics, fiscal policy, global financial crisis (GFC), great recession, history of economic thought, macroeconomics, monetary economics
David Levine on patents
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in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, economic history, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, law and economics, property rights Tags: patents and copyright
Solar Power Scam Revealed: Why Renewables Can Only Survive With Massive Subsidies
14 Oct 2021 Leave a comment
There is no market for power that cannot be delivered on demand. Which is why, in the absence of subsidies, there wouldn’t be a solar panel or wind turbine in sight. Sure, there are remote locations where a solar panel hooked up to a system of batteries and diesel generators make perfect economic sense.
Here though, we’re talking about the large-scale solar plants which are increasingly carpeting the countryside, from horizon to horizon.
The value of a power generator as a business asset ordinarily depends upon the value of the power it generates. With wind and solar, however, it’s all about the subsidies they generate.
Tom Shepstone takes a look at the sale of a large-scale solar plant in New Jersey, which reveals what an enormous scam the solar power generation business really is.
Solar Farm Sale Reveals Green Energy Sorcery
Natural Gas Now
Tom Shepstone
16 September 2021
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