A defendant’s right to a fair trial could be jeopardised under new laws – defence lawyer
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in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: crime and punishment, criminal procedure, law and order
The First Nobel
26 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
Amazing
(First Nobel for Literature, that is)
1899-1905
(A sign of the times: last year, 2018, as a result of sexual harassment allegations, the Swedish Academy did not award a Nobel Prize in Literature. This year Olga Togarczuk got the 2018 prize retroactively. Peter Handke got the 2019 prize.)
The Nobel Prize in Literature goes back to the beginning of the twentieth century, when the Nobel Prize Committee decided to look beyond the sciences. The first prize was to be awarded in 1901. There wasn’t much question who deserved it. Leo Tolstoy was still alive. He was not only the greatest novelist ever, probably, but also an imposing moral figure, a champion of non-violent resistance who would eventually inspire Gandhi and Martin Luther King. So the first Nobel Prize in Literature went to …
Sully Prudhomme
No, I haven’t read anything of his. Have you?
Next year they could still have…
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Steven Pinker on the radical left, Jordan Peterson, Chomsky, and Sam Harris
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in discrimination, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of information, economics of media and culture, gender, law and economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: cognitive psychology, evolutionary psychology, moral psychology, political correctness, regressive left
Environmental Economics | Lynne Kiesling
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in law and economics, property rights Tags: tragedy of the commons
Pielke Jr.: Just the facts on hurricanes
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Hurricane Katrina [image credit: NASA]
In his own style the author tries to point out some of the excesses of climate hotheads who often prefer cries of alarm to observations based on reality. [Below are a few extracts from the full Forbes article].
Summary: Hurricanes have come to occupy a starring role in the political theater that is climate change. As a result, sorting fact from fiction can be difficult.
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The 2019 North Atlantic hurricane season ends officially later this week. Here I am going to give you the straight scoop on hurricanes.
Everything that follows is fully consistent with recent scientific assessments of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, U.S. National Climate Assessment and World Meteorological Organization.
In fact, the information below comes straight out of these authoritative assessment reports.
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Climate I: Is The Debate Over?
26 Nov 2019 1 Comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmists
@BernieSanders explains @fightfor15 to @AOC
25 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, labour economics, labour supply, minimum wage, politics - USA Tags: 2020 presidential election, offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
Will @jeremycorbyn’s 4-day work week end 5-day test matches? Olympics? Wimbledon? Professional sport?
25 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, labour economics, labour supply, Marxist economics, Public Choice, sports economics Tags: British politics, offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
State of the Climate Debate: Patrick Michaels and Judith Curry
25 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of education, economics of information, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmists
UC Davis math professor demonized for criticizing required “diversity” statements for academic jobs
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Abigail Thompson is a well known professor (and department Chair) of mathematics at the University of California at Davis, specializing in topology. Six years ago she became an inaugural fellow of the American Mathematical Society (AMS), and now she’s a vice president.
But in the December issue of the Notices of the American Mathematical Society, she set herself up for public pillorying by publishing an essay criticizing the mandatory diversity statements that must accompany applications for academic jobs at some colleges and universities, including hers. You can read her short essay by clicking on the screenshot below:
Dr. Thompson is certainly not against increased diversity in math departments or colleges in general, nor against efforts to increase diversity. She just doesn’t think that “diversity statements” are the way to do it:
Mathematics has made progress over the past decades towards becoming a more welcoming, inclusive discipline. We should continue…
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