Killer @Greens technologies
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in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia Tags: endangered species
@AlGore
19 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of information, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmism
Sydney’s hottest days
19 Dec 2019 1 Comment
in economic history, environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmism
Melbourne’s hottest days
19 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmists
Why we must ban Christmas
19 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
Originally published on December 24, 2012 and part of the updating of my old blog-site. It is interesting to see how, seven years on, many of my claims to show how ridiculous the anti-Christmas lot were, now seem to be borderline politically incorrect. How fast the narrative can shift!
Christmas means carnage – this is the great insight of Ferdinand the Duck in the 1995 movie, Babe.
Christmas is a time of consumption, and for many of us in the West, over-consumption. That may mean too much to eat and drink (including foie gras and caviar), too many gifts we don’t need or want (decorated in senseless wrapping paper to hide their significant resource depletion) and long trips to spend a day with people we might rather not see during the other 364 days in the year. We chop down trees to put in our homes, lighting them up…
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What Hygiene Was Like During the Industrial Revolution
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in economic history, environmental economics, health economics
How the Model T drove hats out of fashion
18 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
Last week, I came across this tweet from an account I follow on Twitter.
Take a closer look at the picture.
Every single person in this picture, man or woman, was wearing a hat. There isn’t a single person in that picture that isn’t wearing a hat. People even wore broad-rimmed and Panama hats to the beach (unless they were swimming).
Of course, createstreets was pointing out the large sidewalks and tiny roads in the picture, reminding the audience that this was at a time when everybody was walking or riding a horse, and very few people drove cars.
I’m not really sure how my train of thought ended up where it did, but I quickly asked this question: did hats fall out of fashion because of cars?
I ended up getting into a conversation with Andrew, who previously worked in the fashion world, about this particular subject, and…
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Why Tax Rates Matter More Than Taxes
18 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics Tags: taxation and entrepreneurship, taxation and investment, taxation and labour supply
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