Atlanta Officer Charged In Rayshard Brooks’ Case; Shapiro Responds
19 Jun 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: crime and punishment, law and order
5 Scientists with Ideas That Nobody Believed … Who Were right
19 Jun 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of education, health economics Tags: philosophy of science
Why Did Britain Refuse to Annex Malta?
19 Jun 2020 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, international economics, International law Tags: British empire, economics of colonialism, Malta
Liberty Ships: Extraordinarily Ordinary
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in defence economics, transport economics, war and peace Tags: World War II
Typical #climateemergency #globalwarming activist @GreenpeaceAP @Greens @NZGreens
18 Jun 2020 Leave a comment
Jon Chait on Left-wing illiberalism, and why it needs to be called out
18 Jun 2020 Leave a comment
In an increasingly woke New York Magazine, there are two breaths of fresh air: Andrew Sullivan and Jonathan Chait. Chait, like me, calls himself a liberal but spends a not inconsiderable amount of time excoriating the excesses of the Left, an endeavor he extends and explains in this week’s column (click on screenshot to read it):
Chait’s theme is based on a couple of examples of Authoritarian Left social-media hounding. Several involve something that seems to have become anathema to the Left: calling out those protestors, especially in antiracist demonstrations, who commit violence, arson, looting, and so on. Although nobody explicitly approves of this behavior, even mentioning it now brings a “yes but. . .” from certain segments of the Left. I myself have been criticized for decrying violence (mostly on the grounds that “it was minor and look at Trump on the other side”), and I won’t…
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Thomas Sowell – How to Cure Marxism
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in economics of bureaucracy, history of economic thought, labour economics, Marxist economics, minimum wage, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, Thomas Sowell, unemployment Tags: The fatal conceit
The 97% myth
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in economics of education, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmists
Why Cars Are Built to Make a Crash Last Longer (180°) | Damage Control | @WIRED
18 Jun 2020 Leave a comment
in transport economics Tags: road safety
The Tanks of Operation Barbarossa – WW2 Special
18 Jun 2020 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War II
Yossi Nehushtan: The 14-Day Quarantine Policy is Illegal
17 Jun 2020 1 Comment
Harsh criticism, mainly from politicians and the travel industry has been expressed regarding the new government policy, according to which, and from 8 June, nearly all international arrivals at UK ports must quarantine for 14 days. It is surprising that very little has been said about the clear illegality of this policy, despite a very recent judicial review process that has been brought against the policy by a few airline companies. In this post it is argued that the quarantine policy is irrational, unreasonable and disproportionate – and therefore illegal. A preliminary note about the differences between rationality and reasonableness will be followed by applying rationality, reasonableness and proportionality to our case.
Rationality and Reasonableness
Even though UK courts have been applying the concepts ‘rationality’ and ‘reasonableness’ indistinguishably, it is both conceptually possible and helpful to treat them as two separate grounds of review. Whereas ‘reasonableness’ is a…
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