There’s a clamour from retailers for government (you and me) to subsidise their shop rentals.
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Why Precautionary COVID-19 Lockdowns Failed Humanity
03 May 2020 Leave a comment
The Risk-Monger understands that his articles can be long and he often includes a special lexicon with novel vocabulary to develop his ideas. Concerning two related articles, I was asked to just republish several key points so it can be more widely read and understood how the precautionary COVID-19 lockdowns were not risk management at all, but rather a result of the failure and incapacity of western risk managers. It is urgent to understand how ill-prepared our risk managers have been as we are falling into deeper, more serious crises including famines, a deep economic depression and supply chain collapse. It is urgent to understand how we need to stop the activists demanding even more precaution and more lost social benefits in the post-COVID-19 world.
How the Precautionary Principle works
While there are many definitions of the precautionary principle, its most common expression today claims that a practice, substance…
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The Angels – Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again, Live In Melbourne 1979
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Balkans in Nazi Hands – A Greek Tragedy – WW2 – 088 – May 02, 1941
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in defence economics, laws of war, war and peace Tags: World War II
No comment from @Greenpeace @Greens @NZGreens @jamespeshaw @AOC @BernieSanders
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It had to be a pub in Ireland
03 May 2020 Leave a comment
in economic history, industrial organisation, survivor principle
May 2, 1536: Arrest of Anne Boleyn, Queen of England.
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Anne Boleyn (c. 1501 – May 19, 1536) was Queen of England from 1533 to 1536 as the second wife of King Henry VIII. Their marriage, and her execution for treason and other charges by beheading, made her a key figure in the political and religious upheaval that marked the start of the English Reformation.
Anne was the daughter of Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, and his wife, Lady Elizabeth Howard, and was educated in the Netherlands and France, largely as a maid of honour to Queen Claude of France. Anne returned to England in early 1522, to marry her Irish cousin James Butler, 9th Earl of Ormond; the marriage plans were broken off, and instead she secured a post at court as maid of honour to Henry VIII’s wife, Catherine of Aragon.
Anne, Queen Consort of England
Henry VIII and Anne formally married on January 25, 1533, after…
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A Day in the Life of a Socialist Citizen | Michael Walzer (1968) Dissent Magazine
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in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economics of bureaucracy, industrial organisation, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, Marxist economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, theory of the firm Tags: offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
Prehistoric Beasts Size Comparison
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in economics of education, economics of media and culture
The Soul of Man under Socialism by Oscar Wilde (1891)
03 May 2020 Leave a comment
Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.
A brief recap
Wilde debuted with a volume of slender and derivative poems in 1881 and was promptly invited to undertake a lecture tour of America in 1882 which proved fabulously successful. Throughout the 1880s he established himself via essays, reviews and articles (not least for The Woman’s World magazine which he edited for a spell) as a flamboyant journalist, leading representative of the Aesthetic movement, as well as fashioning himself into one of the London’s most notorious and newsworthy personalities.
Tiring of makepiece journalism, towards the end of the decade he made the transition to becoming a full-time writer of prose with a series of short stories and essays:
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Takes 6 to 36 months to manufacture a vaccine; 6 months to make a flu vaccine
02 May 2020 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: economics of pandemics
Finn Kydland on his work and Ireland
02 May 2020 Leave a comment
I was going through this old interview of Finn Kydland, 2004 Laureate alongwith Ed Prescott.
He nicely explains his work and why he got the Nobel Prize:
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