Nuclear is the safest energy
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in energy economics Tags: nuclear energy, solar power, wind power
Why Breaking Out of Prison is Legal in Germany
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in economics of crime, law and economics
#globalwarming #climateemergency @AOC @greenpeaceusa @JoeBiden
21 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - USA Tags: 2020 presidential election, climate alarmists, nuclear power, regressive left, solar power, The fatal conceit, wind power
Do @NZGreens believe we should be able to vote out any official who lords it over us?
21 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - New Zealand
Useful idiots @NZGreens forget that gay rights was championed by liberals, not socialists
21 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - New Zealand
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/12/world/americas/cuba-gay-pride-parade.html and
https://www.facebook.com/1219528811471643/posts/3174632832627888/?sfnsn=mo&extid=uEiXpMgpAU9tXEuf
Documentary Review: Beautiful Cuba as the “Epicentro” of human “dystopia”
21 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
“Epicentro” is a lovely new tone poem to Cuba, as it is now, the Cuba behind the propaganda from within and without.
Havana is shown in all its worn, grimy impoverished glory and the people in all their vibrant, increasingly outspoken and testy semi-isolation. Long abandoned sugar refineries that once supplied Coca-Cola and crumbling housing dating back to the Spanish American War, the Eisenhower era American cars and the Soviet era trains, famed in many a travelogue, blend into this impressionistic sketch of the island After Fidel.
European writer-director-narrator Hubert Sauper (“We Come as Friends,” “Darwin’s Nightmare”) uses the idea of “Cuba as the epicenter of three dystopian chapters in human history — slavery, colonialism and the global projection of power.”
And the film, although loosely organized and more concerned with capturing arresting images, pays lip service to each of those.
The main focus is children, as we see Cubanschoolkids…
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Understanding the Cost of Climate Change with Bjorn Lomborg (Lessons from Hoover Boot Camp) | Ch 1
21 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmists
“Blazing Saddles” gets a trigger warning
21 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
The Critic site is new to me, but appears to be a kind of Quillette-like UK website that fosters free speech, even when it’s not ideologically au courant. At any rate, this article appeared on the site recounting how once again HBO has tried to sanitize a “problematic” movie by giving it an ideologically palatable introduction—one that cannot be skipped. This time the movie is Mel Brooks’s 1974 classic “Blazing Saddles“. I saw that movie once decades ago, but can remember little about it except for the post-beans farting scene around the campfire. Apparently the movie has become a classic, though. As the article reports:
If you have not seen Blazing Saddles – and if you are under the age of forty there is an excellent chance some prudish authority figure sanitised it out of your cosseted millennial existence – it stands as one of the greatest…
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JImmy Fallon mocks explanatory caveats affixed to “problematic” films
21 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
I understand that this spoof by Jimmy Fallon was put in the comments of my last post, about the now-obligatory “racism” warning given before the start of HBO’s reissue of the movie “Blazing Saddles”. (HBO did the same thing to “Gone with the Wind.”)
This was sent by reader Simon, who added, “Once comedians start serious mockery a trend is likely on the way out (I hope!)” In support of Simon’s hopes, note the ratio of “thumbs up” to “thumbs down” ratings on YouTube.
Adam Smith and religion
21 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in Adam Smith, comparative institutional analysis, David Friedman, economics of education, history of economic thought, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, property rights Tags: moral hazard, signaling
JPE 1988
Carbon Fiber – The Material Of The Future?
21 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture
Qinghai–Tibet Railway: The Highest Railway in the World
21 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth miracles, transport economics
The Dunning-Kruger Effect on stature
20 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
With the collapse of a false sense of stature comes a disintegration of perceptions of personal dignity. The Dunning-Kruger Effect says that a person’s incompetence masks his or her ability to recognize his own (and others’) incompetence. Building off this concept, I hypothesize that many of the social tensions we are experiencing today are a result of a type Dunning-Kruger Effect wherein those who are incapable eventually become aware of their inability or unsuitability.
In 2010, Dr. David Dunning, now retired from Cornell University and one half of the Dunning-Kruger name, gave an interview to the NYT on the eponymous Effect. The genesis of Dunning’s research came when he read about a bank robber who made no attempt to conceal his face, resulting in his being apprehended in less than a day. During his interrogation, the man revealed that he had covered his face with lemon juice, having developed the…
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Gordon Tullock on an accidental economic miracle
20 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of regulation, Gordon Tullock, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, Marxist economics, organisational economics, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: South Korea, The Great Escape
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