What do the public make of the “implicit association test” and being told they are subconsciously racist?
25 Jul 2020 Leave a comment
War Diplomats, Japanese/Soviet Neutrality, and why not Sweden? – WW2 – OOTF 015
25 Jul 2020 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War II
Q&A Session With Deirdre Mccloskey & David Friedman
25 Jul 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, David Friedman, economic history, economics of regulation, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, law and economics, Milton Friedman, property rights, Public Choice
So @NZGreens want to abolish prisons
25 Jul 2020 1 Comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, Marxist economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: crime and punishment, criminal deterrence, law and order
July 24, 1567: Abdication of Queen Mary I of Scotland
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Queen Mary I of Scotland (December 8, 1542 – February 8, 1587), reigned over Scotland from December 14, 1542 to July 24, 1567.
Mary, the only surviving legitimate child of King James V of Scotland, was six days old when her father died and she acceded to the throne. She spent most of her childhood in France while Scotland was ruled by regents, and in 1558, she married the Dauphin of France, François. Mary was queen consort of France from the accession of her husband as King François II of France in 1559 until his death in December 1560. Widowed, Mary returned to Scotland, arriving in Leith on August 19, 1561. Four years later, she married her half-cousin, Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, and in June 1566 they had a son, James.
Mary I, Queen of Scotland
In February 1567, Darnley’s residence was destroyed by an explosion, and he was found…
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Aldred Marshall and the grapes of wrath
25 Jul 2020 Leave a comment
in Alfred Marshall, applied price theory, labour economics
Another slave trade
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in economic history, economics of crime, law and economics Tags: abolition of slavery
Hysterical Women’s Rights Activists
25 Jul 2020 Leave a comment
Zarah Sultana: Letter to Liz Truss
Labour MP attacks Liz Truss for delaying reform of the Gender Recognition Act and restricting access to medical intervention for “transgender” children. Not for the first time I find myself agreeing with the party I have opposed my whole life. I have been a member of and donated hours of my time, and money, to support Labour. I am still an economic leftie but sadly I refuse to forfeit women’s rights and turn a blind eye to the medicalisation of “trans kids”. There are some good Conservative Women who appear to be getting a hearing from their party leadership. That’s been quite eye-opening. Meanwhile the Labour Party leadership candidates, bar one, all deemed women like me to be part of a Hate Group. All of them signed up to some version of the Mantra “Transwomen are Women” with no concern about women being redefined without…
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Political opinion discrimination compliant to @NZHumanRights against @NZHumanRights. A commissioner muted me on his official Facebook account despite being polite and on topic. He just didn’t like my opinions. Refer my complaint to your chief mediator for investigation. Remedy sought is public apology and demuting
24 Jul 2020 Leave a comment
in law and economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: political correctness, regressive left
#OIA to @NZHumanRights: all information held on muting me and deleting my FB comments on my lived experience with microaggressions as a migrant and foreign student
24 Jul 2020 Leave a comment
in law and economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: political correctness, racial discrimination, regressive left
RE Reckoning: Solar Powered Households Forced to Pay For The Grid Chaos They Cause
24 Jul 2020 Leave a comment
Australia’s obscenely generous subsidies and Feed-in-Tariffs for domestic solar resulted in millions of households blanketed in panels. The consequences for the power grid have been diabolical; its management is now a daily nightmare.
Western Australia’s fixation with heavily subsidised solar power is threatening to destroy its once wholly reliable electricity grid, thanks to its sporadic and unreliable delivery.
In October last year, Alice Springs (in Australia’s Red Centre) suffered a widespread blackout that lasted for around nine hours, thanks to a little pesky cloud cover that interfered with the output from its thousands of solar panels, which are meant to provide a substantial proportion of the power needed to run the outback town of around 29,000 inhabitants.
The NT government’s spin doctors went into damage control, with a waffling response that avoided any reference to solar panels being the (obvious) culprits, as the ABC dutifully reported:
The outage was…
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