The Case for Nuclear Power (Pt. 1) | Mike Shellenberger | POLITICS | Rubin Report
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in comparative institutional analysis, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - USA Tags: nuclear power
Prince Paul of Yugoslavia – Victim of Circumstance? – WW2 Biography Special
09 Apr 2020 Leave a comment
in defence economics, laws of war, war and peace Tags: World War II
Why NASA quarantined the Apollo 11 astronauts
09 Apr 2020 Leave a comment
in economic history Tags: moon
Sean Molloy: Covid-19, Emergency Legislation and Sunset Clauses
08 Apr 2020 Leave a comment
On 25 March, the UK passed the Coronavirus Act 2020 as part of its attempt to manage the coronavirus outbreak. The Act introduces a wave of temporary measures designed to either amend existing legislative provisions or introduce new statutory powers in order to mitigate the effects of the COVID-19 (See Nicholas Clapham’s Conversation post here on the content of Bill). As countries around the world enact similar laws, there are notable concerns regarding not only the impact of emergency provisions on human rights, but also the potential of emergency powers to become normalised. One response is to utilise sunset clauses. This piece argues that while sunset clauses are both welcome and necessary, they should nevertheless be approached with a degree of caution.
Legislation in times of emergency
Following agreement by both Houses of Parliament, the Coronavirus Bill received Royal Assent on 25 March transposing the Bill into primary legislation in…
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Allan Meltzer on the 1930s Fed’s main concern
08 Apr 2020 Leave a comment
in business cycles, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, great depression, macroeconomics, monetarism, monetary economics, Public Choice, unemployment
29 March #COV19 New Zealand
08 Apr 2020 Leave a comment
Another #COVID19 Cluster
08 Apr 2020 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: economics of pandemics
The Post-COVID-19 Blueprint (Part 1): How Precaution Failed
08 Apr 2020 Leave a comment
My last two articles have highlighted the failures of risk management in the ten weeks leading up to the Western COVID-19 lockdowns where over-reliance on the precautionary principle has left our authorities with limited options leading to a massive denial of social benefits with unfathomable consequences. I want to turn to a more detailed assessment of how risk managers failed with the hope that, once COVID-19 becomes part of history, we will have learnt something. While the horrors of the devastation is still raw, we need to prepare a blueprint for tomorrow. This first section looks at how the precautionary principle failed to function as a credible risk management tool. Part 2 will look at how we can become risk resilient even when our risk managers fail us (how we can perform a “Docilian Detox”). Part 3 will lay down the groundwork for a robust risk management strategy post-COVID-19 to…
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