Features English is missing – but most other languages have
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in economics of education Tags: economics of languages
Government Centralization is the Main Problem in Today’s Financial System – David Friedman Interview
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in David Friedman, law and economics
Election 2019 week 1
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in defence economics, health economics, international economic law, international economics, International law, law and economics, Marxist economics, Public Choice Tags: Brexit, British politics
Groom of the Stool (Worst Jobs in History)
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in economic history, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice
English test for Immigrants? At least it isn’t Gaelic!
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Australia, or, more specifically, the ever-infuriating John Howard, wants to impose a test of proficiency in English as a requirement for citizenship (he also wants to test ‘Australian Values’, but the idea is just too ludicrous to spend any more time on).
I remembered reading Mike Carlton’s take on the concept of language proficiency tests in Australian history and stumbled upon a particular case that I thought must have been a joke. Alas, it turns out to be factual.
Australia’s immigration policy while Howard’s hero, Robert Menzies was Attorney General, included a clause (section 3(a) of the Immigration Act of 1901) that immigrants and visitors could be subject to a dictation test in an unspecified European language. If you don’t believe me, here‘s a facsimile of the act itself.
This wasn’t used much, it seems, but in 1934, an anti-fascist, anti-war Czech intellectual by the name of Egon Kisch…
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Fall of the Berlin Wall: British diplomats reflect on 9 November 1989
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in economic history, International law, law and economics, Marxist economics, Public Choice Tags: Berlin wall, East Germany, fall of communism
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