Cryptography: Crash Course Computer Science #33
09 Aug 2021 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, economics of information, economics of media and culture, law and economics, property rights
Beyond Wires and Pigeons – Communications in World War 1 I THE GREAT WAR Special
09 Aug 2021 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
The EU’s vaccine failures will leave a toxic legacy
08 Aug 2021 Leave a comment
This week it has been reported that the pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca is ‘exploring options’ for its COVID-19 vaccine business, including a sale. This is not entirely surprising. The company has not traditionally focused on vaccines and its vital contribution to the fight against the coronavirus may never make a profit.
However, AstraZeneca’s experience still reflects badly on many politicians and policy-makers, especially in Europe. At every stage, certain national governments, and the European Commission itself, appear to have done their best to make life as difficult as possible for those trying to help.
Some mistakes were probably inevitable during the fog of the pandemic, and hindsight is a wonderful thing. The EU was not alone in messing things up either. The Australian government has also been widely criticised for ‘anti-AstraZenecism’ and for mixed messages about the safety of the company’s jab. The US authorities have been…
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Ben Shapiro and Malcolm Nance on Critical Race Theory | Real Time with Bill Maher
08 Aug 2021 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality Tags: Age of Enlightenment, free speech, political correctness, racial discrimination, regressive left
Bryan Caplan – Poverty: Who Is To Blame
08 Aug 2021 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, David Friedman, development economics, econometerics, economic growth, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, liberalism, libertarianism, Marxist economics, occupational choice, occupational regulation, P.T. Bauer, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, survivor principle, urban economics, welfare reform Tags: economics of fertility, economics of immigration, The Great Enrichment
Daron Acemoglu: Optimal Targeted Lockdowns for COVID-19 in a Multi-Group SIR Model
08 Aug 2021 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, economics of regulation, health economics, labour economics, labour supply, poverty and inequality, unemployment Tags: economics of pandemics
Information Tribunal orders Committee on Climate Change to reveal Net Zero calculations
07 Aug 2021 Leave a comment
#climatechange poses no measurable risk to the financial system
07 Aug 2021 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, financial economics, global warming, politics - USA
From https://www.city-journal.org/dont-let-financial-regulators-dream-up-climate-solutions and https://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2021/03/testimony-on-financial-regulation-and.html
Permanent No-Hopers: Never-Reliable Wind & Solar No Match For On-Tap Coal-Fired Power
07 Aug 2021 Leave a comment
Virtue signalling anti-coal/pro-wind and solar groups are picking a fight they can only lose. NWO/NGOs have launched rabid attacks on any company with the temerity to back coalmining and/or coal-fired power.
The activists’ line goes that any company that isn’t telling its shareholders that coal and coal-fired power plants are already dead, is lying to them (and the market) and must be brought to book by the corporate regulator, ASIC.
In one targeted attack, a crowd using the entirely misleading moniker, ‘Market Forces’ -their methods and mantra are anything but – went after Australian coal miner, New Hope in an effort to spook its management, scare off shareholders and wreck its market value. Doesn’t sound much like Adam Smith’s “invisible hand”, to STT.
Unlike plenty of other timid corporates, New Hope wasn’t going to be rattled by a bit of undergraduate ranting from wind and solar cultists. Instead, New Hope…
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The Black Markets of World War Two – WW2 – On the Homefront 012
07 Aug 2021 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War II
Jordan Peterson explains Equality of Opportunity (With thought bubbles)
07 Aug 2021 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economic history, economics of media and culture, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: gender wage gap, offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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