Cancel any of the woke who can’t pronounce mayor Pete’s name first time
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in economics of media and culture, politics - USA Tags: 2020 presidential election, political correctness, regressive left
SUBMISSION ON ANTI-DISCRIMINATION AMENDMENT (RELIGIOUS FREEDOMS AND EQUALITY) BILL 2020
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Freedom for Faith have posted this submission on the provisions of a Private Member’s Bill (sponsored by the Hon Mark Latham) being considered in the NSW Parliament at the moment. The Bill would plug a gap in NSW discrimination law by making religious belief or activity a prohibited ground of discrimination in NSW. The Bill is one that ought to receive serious consideration from the Parliament, and the submission (prepared for Freedom for Faith by Dr Alex Deagon, Senior Lecturer in Law at the Queensland University of Technology) should be very helpful in that process.
A Monarchy Transformed: Britain 1603-1714 by Mark Kishlansky (1996)
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Mark Kishlansky (1948 – 2015) was an American historian of seventeenth-century British politics. He was the Frank Baird, Jr. Professor of History at Harvard University, editor of the Journal of British Studies from 1984 to 1991, and editor-in-chief of History Compass from 2003 to 2009.
Kishlansky wrote half a dozen or so books and lots of articles about Stuart Britain and so was invited to write Volume Six of the Penguin History of England covering that period, under the general editorship of historian David Cannadine.
I think of the history of Britain in the 17th century as consisting of four parts:
- The first two Stuarts (Kings James I & Charles I) 1603 – 1642
- The Civil Wars and Protectorate (Oliver Cromwell) 1642 – 1660
- The Restoration (Kings Charles II & James II) 1660 – 1688
- The Glorious Revolution and Whig monarchs (William & Mary, then Queen Anne) 1688 – 1714
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Letter to @DomPost
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in economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, entrepreneurship, financial economics, health and safety, health economics, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, survivor principle, unemployment, unions Tags: The fatal conceit
Inequality, Productivity Stagnation and Moore’s Law | Tyler Cowen
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in economic growth, economic history, economics of education, entrepreneurship, fisheries economics, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: creative destruction, top 1%
If true, someone might have noticed these towns well before recently
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in economic history, urban economics Tags: Australia, Australian history, political correctness, regressive left
#OTD #COVID19
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in applied welfare economics, economics of bureaucracy, health economics, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, rentseeking, unemployment Tags: economics of pandemics
Conversion Therapy laws and religious freedom
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Australia has seen two recent initiatives by local Parliaments aimed at what are often called “conversion therapy” practices. No-one supports coercive electro-shock or other oppressive practices imposed on someone without their consent, to change their sexual preferences or identity. But the problem with the recent legislative proposals is that the laws do not target these practices alone (as to which it is hard to find any evidence of them occurring in Australia in recent years), but seem to reach further and to prevent religious groups sharing the teaching of their faith.
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The Case for Capitalism, Part I
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This video from Dan Hannan crams 10,000 years of human history into 5 minutes. We learn about the “stationary bandit” of government and find out how our ancestors endured pervasive oppression and misery.
But there’s a happy ending to the story. It’s called capitalism.
There are many useful insights in this video.
We learn why it was important to replace arbitrary government with the “rule of law” so that property rights could be protected and so that people wanting to buy and sell no longer had to get permission from the state.
And once capitalism was unleashed beginning a few hundred years ago, living standards dramatically improved (these videos by Don Boudreaux and Deirdre McCloskey have lots of evidence).
Hannan makes the all-important point that capitalism is the opposite of exploitation. It enriches people, but also liberates them.
And, as indicated by one of my…
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Lost on @NZHumanRights @Greens @NZGreens @AOC @BernieSanders
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in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, development economics, discrimination, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, gender, growth disasters, growth miracles, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, Marxist economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: The fatal conceit, The Great Enrichment
Further Explanations with Bjorn Lomborg (Lessons from Hoover Boot Camp) | Ch 4
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in applied welfare economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: climate alarmists
7 Animals That Evolved at Hyperspeed — Because of Us
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#globalwarming #climateemergency @GreenpeaceAP @Greens
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in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia Tags: climate alarmists
#globalwarming #climateemergency @greenpeaceusa @JoeBiden @AOC @BernieSanders @Greens @NZGreens
23 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - USA Tags: California, climate alarmism, nuclear energy, solar power, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences, wind power
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