The Great Vowel Shift and the History of Britain
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in economic history, economics of education
The puzzling lesbian pay gap
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in discrimination, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: gender wage gap
Reliability of Wind Energy — Not in My Backyard
28 Jan 2020 1 Comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: NIMBY, wind power, zoning
When are the occupational hazards of gang membership too high?
28 Jan 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, health and safety, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: crime and punishment, criminal deterrence, law and order
Mankiw on the dangerousness of real business cycle theory
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in business cycles, Edward Prescott, macroeconomics Tags: real business cycle theory
“the day I see economists form a wolf pack or use delegitimisation tactics to descend on the rightwinger who uses ec theory to justify bad public policy, or general life cynicism, rather than vs the lefty who complains about him, is the day I’ll take their claims seriously” said David Gaeber
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in business cycles, Edward Prescott, history of economic thought, macroeconomics
Larry Summers commenting in 1986 on real business cycle theory at https://www.minneapolisfed.org/research/qr/qr1043.pdf
Money For Jam: Intermittent & Unreliable Wind & Solar The Greatest Subsidy Scam In History
28 Jan 2020 1 Comment
The so-called wind and solar ‘industries’ were built on lies, myths and propaganda and run on subsidies. As wind power ‘investor’ Warren Buffett put it: “We get a tax credit if we build a lot of wind farms. That’s the only reason to build them. They don’t make sense without the tax credit.” Buffett might have continued, that it’s the only reason anyone invests in them.
As to the lies, myths and propaganda, the spate of bushfires that have swept Queensland, NSW, Victoria and South Australian this summer have energized doomsday climate cultists who – without a shred of scientific evidence – pronounce, with godlike certitude, that those fires were all caused by Australia’s failure to rein in its carbon dioxide gas emissions. Ergo, those fires could have been wholly prevented had we only carpeted every inch of the Australian countryside with windmills and every rooftop with solar panels.
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Fact checking is a contradiction these days
28 Jan 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of natural disasters, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia, Public Choice Tags: climate alarmists, regressive left
Submission on Second Draft of Religious Discrimination Bill
28 Jan 2020 Leave a comment
As noted previously, the Commonwealth Government released a Second Exposure Draft of their proposed Religious Discrimination Bill in December 2019, inviting public comment by Friday 31st January 2020. I have now provided my submission on this draft, which is linked here for those who would like to consult it:
In short, I think this legisation is an important step in improving protection of religious freedom in Australia, and the second draft is an improvement on the first. But I recommend some clarification or change of approach in the following areas:
- Defining Religious Belief – I recommend that the way that the courts should determine whether a claim to religious belief is justified should focus on sincerity rather than courts examining “reasonableness” ; I also think that the bar of “unlawfulness” determining what beliefs cannot be protected at all needs to be raised to mainly cover serious criminal…
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