Deirdre McCloskey delivers Fourteenth Annual Hayek Lecture
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in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, financial economics, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, Marxist economics, property rights, Public Choice, public economics Tags: Age of Enlightenment, The Great Enrichment
Illegal discrimination by a minority subculture near you
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in discrimination, economics of information, economics of regulation, economics of religion, gender, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice Tags: antidiscrimination laws, offsetting behaviour, political correctness, regressive left, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
@RossMcKitrick on economics of energy and emissions
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in applied welfare economics, econometerics, economic history, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, Public Choice Tags: carbon tax, climate alarmists
#OTD 1943 Jumpin Jive – Cab Calloway and the Nicholas Brothers – one take, unrehearsed!?
23 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
I’m sure this has an explanation
23 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
in econometerics, economic history, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: data mining
My @NZHerald op-ed on @RossMcKitrick’s temperature contingent #carbontax #climateemergency @jamespeshaw @mfe_news
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in applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, energy economics, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, financial economics, global warming, income redistribution, politics - New Zealand, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: carbon tax
Stephen Williamson on low interest rates
23 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
in business cycles, financial economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics, population economics
J. K. Rowling demonized for defending another woman who considers trans-women different from “biological women”
23 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
Well, it finally happened: writer J. K. Rowling, who’s been vocally progressive in her politics since she became famous, has now become demonized for being a “transphobe”. What that means is that she gave support, on Twitter, to another woman who was fired from her job (a charity) because she refused to recognize transsexual females (male —> female) as completely equivalent to biological females. The court case about the firing is summarized by Andrew Sullivan (who has views similar to Rowling) in his latest New York Magazine column, and he links to the judge’s decision declaring that the woman supported by Rowling, Maya Forstater, had every right to be fired. Another account of the case, insisting that Forstater was indeed a hateful transphobe, was given by Vox, which also displays many anti-Rowling tweets as if to buttress its stand. (Vox is quickly becoming like HuffPo.)
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Michael Walzer on Just War Theory
23 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of crime, economics of religion, law and economics, laws of war, war and peace Tags: just war theory
Justice Scalia on affirmative action and positive discrimination
22 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, Marxist economics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: affirmative action, racial discrimination
Social justice warriors explained
22 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of education, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: distributive justice, regressive left, social justice
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