The withering away of the proletariat @AOC @BernieSanders @Greens @NZGreens
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in economic history, income redistribution, labour economics, Marxist economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice Tags: The Great Enrichment, top 1%
Deaf kids miss out on hearing for 1st time #COVID19 #OTD
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in economics of bureaucracy, health economics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice Tags: economics of pandemics, unintended consequences
Developed since March @DrJinRussell·@MatthewHootonNZ by MIT economists #COVID19
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in applied welfare economics, econometerics, health economics, politics - New Zealand
From http://mr-sir.herokuapp.com/main and https://economics.mit.edu/files/19349
https://time.com/5840194/targeted-lockdowns-coronavirus/
Mises on the appeal of Marxism @AOC @Greens @BernieSanders @NZGreens
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in Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economics of crime, economics of education, entrepreneurship, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, Ludwig von Mises, Marxist economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: anti-market bias, economics of socialism, envy, pessimism bias, regressive left, The fatal conceit
Protecting Property Rights and the Environment in Lower Hutt
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in economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, transport economics Tags: land supply, zoning
Crises in Chicago | Glenn Loury & Richard Epstein [The Glenn Show]
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in comparative institutional analysis, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, health economics, law and economics, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, Richard Epstein, urban economics Tags: 2020 presidential election, crime and punishment, economics of pandemics, land supply, law and order, regressive left, zoning
Two nearly unknown WW II aviation stories by Mark Felton
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(1) A commenter alerted me to this video by Mark Felton about the time Hitler (y”sh) came close (sadly not close enough) to dying in an airplane accident.
Briefly, on June 4, 1942, he flew from the Wolf’s Lair in Rastenburg to Finland on a state visit to his ally malgré-soi, Field Marshal Gustav Mannerheim. As usual, two identical Focke-Wulf FW-200 Condors took off. Upon takeoff, pilot Hans Baur noticed the brake on the left undercarriage had jammed. Then upon landing, he was faced with a much-too-short landing strip. He braked vigorously to ensure he would not skate off the runway: this caused the failing left brake to overheat and the brake fluid to catch fire.
Could the world have been spared three more years of war and butchery, were it not for an alert ground crew member who noticed the fire and moved quickly to extinguish it? Felton’s…
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“Triumph of the Will” with my own disclaimer
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In 2019, YouTube removed Leni Riefenstahl’s 1935 film “Triumph of the Will” from its platform because it was considered “hate speech,” and if any film is ever considered hate speech, this would be the one, for it documents a famous rally for Hitler in prewar Germany and glorifies the Führer, showing a lot of his speech. YouTube’s grounds for removal were that its guidelines mandated removal of any videos “that promote or glorify Nazi ideology, which is inherently discriminatory.”
I watched it several years back on YouTube, but we can’t any more, though you can find it, with critical commentary, on the platform if you look hard enough. But it can be seen in full on Daily Motion, at the preceding link, which carries only the brief notice, “The infamous propaganda film of the 1934 Nazi Party rally in Nuremberg, Germany.”
And infamous it is—it’s propaganda in the service…
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BOBBY KENNEDY: THE MAKING OF A LIBERAL ICON by Larry Tye
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(Robert Francis Kennedy)
Early in the morning on June 6, 1968 I got out of bed and turned on the news and learned that Robert F. Kennedy had been assassinated. Kennedy had just won the California primary and as a college freshman I was convinced that had he lived he would have been elected president. For me, the “what ifs” of American history applied, particularly because of the path taken by the Nixon administration. I often wonder what would have been the course of American history had Bobby Kennedy lived – Civil rights? Vietnam? Income equality? But counterfactuals are an intellectual exercise, not reality. There have been numerous books written about Robert Kennedy and one must be careful to look at the entire picture, not just the last few years of his life when he evolved into a liberal icon. A new biography by Larry Tye entitled, BOBBY KENNEDY: THE…
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The Great Fact
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in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape
Why We Get Climate Change Wrong with Bjorn Lomborg (Lessons from Hoover Boot Camp) | Ch 2
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in applied welfare economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: climate alarmists
The Greatest Innovations In Formula One
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in transport economics Tags: racing
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