Professor Paul Frijters – The Whole Picture, COVID’s seen and unseen victims
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in applied welfare economics, health economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: economics of pandemics, pessimism bias
Biden STUMBLES Through A BIZARRE Interview; Shapiro Responds
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Why not blockade Japan into Surrender? (feat. D.M. Giangreco)
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War II
The High Costs And Low Benefits Of Electric Vehicles
07 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
By Duggan Flanakin ~
The rush to decarbonize every nation in the world in one or maybe two decades reflects the “I want it all NOW!” philosophy imbued through modern education systems. Current and recent former students – and their teachers – demand a perfect world (since they can envision one) and exhibit zero patience (hence the nationwide riots in the U.S.).
Hopefully the mad stampede to destroy the West’s ability to use fossil fuels at all will be sidelined by harsh realities of economics, logistics, and resource availability (including a hoped for reticence to rely on child slave labor to satisfy their blood lust). Yet the United Kingdom, formerly a bastion of sanity, has mandated, as part of its drive toward an all-electric society, the installation of electric vehicle charging stations in every home by 2030 and that all new cars and vans be hydrogen or electric vehicles (and…
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How many lockdowns are one too many? #COVID19 op-ed in @DomPost
07 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, behavioural economics, economics of bureaucracy, health economics, law and economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: economics of pandemics, offsetting behaviour, pessimism bias, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
Stoners don’t like to pay tax nor like greentape @nzdrug
07 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, health economics, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, public economics Tags: black markets, marijuana decrimilization, offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
From DomPost 7 August 20
Richard Epstein on the first amendment
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in law and economics, politics - USA, Richard Epstein Tags: constitution law, free speech
A Career Anti-Fascist – George Orwell – WW2 Biography Special
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in war and peace Tags: George Orwell, World War II
75 years ago to the day…
07 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
August 6, 1945, 8:15:17 seconds, a solitary bomb was released from a single B-29 over Hiroshima…
[Lyrics: Peart; music: Lee, Lifeson]
Imagine a time
When it all began
In the dying days of a war
A weapon that would settle the score
Whoever found it first
Would be sure to do their worst
They always had before…Imagine a man
Where it all began
A scientist pacing the floor
In each nation, always eager to explore
To build the best big stick
To turn the winning trick
But this was something more…[CHORUS:] The Big Bang took and shook the world
Shot down the Rising Sun
The end was begun
It would hit everyone
When the chain reaction was done
The big shots try to hold it back
Fools try to wish it away
The hopeful depend on a world without end
Whatever the hopeless may sayImagine…
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August 6, 1806. Dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire.
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The dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire occurred de facto on August 6, 1806, when Emperor Franz II abdicated his Imperial title and released all imperial states and officials from their oaths and obligations to the empire. Although the abdication was considered legal, the dissolution of the imperial bonds was not and several states refused to recognise the end of the empire at the time.
Although today is the date the empire was dissolved, in many ways it was a mere formality as the empire had been deteriorating since the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648 that ended the Thirty Years War. The treaty gave the numerous states within the empire autonomy, ending the empire in all but name. The Swiss Confederation, which had already established quasi-independence in 1499, as well as the Northern Netherlands, also left the Empire at this juncture. The Habsburg Emperors then began to focus on consolidating…
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