Donald Dewey’s Yale Law Journal 1978 Review of Robert Bork’s Antitrust Paradox @sandeepvaheesan @ProMarket_org @openmarkets
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in applied price theory, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: competition law
Oh so cruel
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in economics of information, economics of media and culture, economics of natural disasters, health economics Tags: food snobs
Trump Is Terrible on Trade. Top 2020 Dems Are No Better.
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in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, industrial organisation, international economic law, international economics, politics - USA, survivor principle Tags: 2020 presidential election, protectionism, tariffs and quotas, trade wars
How Truman’s Postdam Declaration prolonged the war and made Hiroshima inevitable
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in defence economics, laws of war, war and peace Tags: Atomic weapons, game theory, World War II
Nesrine Malik of the Guardian calls for speech restrictions
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This “long read” at the Guardian, written by Nesrine Malik (click on screenshot), could easily have been a short read, as much of it is a personalized rant about the online abuse Malike suffered, and a series of misguided claims that a). there is no ‘free speech crisis’, b.) that those advocating free speech and pretending there’s a crisis are really looking for a cover so they can spout racism and Islamophobia, and c.) that we need to “reclaim” free speech by, among other things, banning or disinviting more speakers. In the course of her argument, though, Malik completely mischaracterizes what most reasonable people mean by free speech.
We’ve met Malik twice before, in both cases when she argued that free speech was really a cover to vent Islamophobia (see here and here, with the last piece discussing her ideas about banning “hate speech”). Since she was born…
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Thomas Sowell – Race and Economics
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in discrimination, economic history, economics of education, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, occupational regulation, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Thomas Sowell, unemployment, unions, welfare reform Tags: racial discrimination
The Stinky Reputation of 17th Century Versailles
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in economic history, health economics Tags: France
Isn’t being trans just about believing in gender stereotypes?
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Gender stereotypes are incredibly damaging for children and can have a lifelong impact on them. The claim that transgender ideology perpetuates and entrenches stereotypes is pervasive, so much so that Scottish Transgender Alliance (STA) and the Equality Network have produced a frequently asked question (FAQ) on this subject- “Isn’t being trans just about believing in gender stereotypes?”
They answer the question as follows:
“It does a disservice to the trans community to imply that we uphold gender stereotypes more than others, or that we reinforce gender stereotypes by transitioning. Often, trans people feel immensely pressured to conform togender stereotypes in order to have who they are taken seriously. Our safety and acceptance often depends on whether wider society considers us to be striving hard enough to embody “typical womanhood” or “typical manhood”.
“As a society, we all perpetuate gender stereotypes to different degrees. This is…
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