Discorso Bruno Leoni 2016 – Frank H. Easterbrook
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in law and economics, Public Choice Tags: competition law
Towards the Flame: Empire, War and the End of Tsarist Russia (2) by Dominic Lieven (2015)
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Lieven concludes his rather exhausting history of the diplomatic build-up to the First World War as seen from Russia, with some Big Ideas.
Big ideas
– The First and Second World Wars were essentially wars fought between Russia and Germany for control of Europe. The first war ended in stalemate; Russia won the second one.
– This explains why both the world wars started in eastern Europe, in the badlands between the two empires – with the Austrian attack on Serbia in 1914, and the Nazi attack on Poland in 1939.
– The collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1918 led to a vacuum. It led to the creation of a host of smaller nations (Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, alongside the existing weak powers of Bulgaria and Romania), none of which was strong enough by itself to stand up to either Germany or Russia, making the second war, if not…
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The Lost Victory: British Dreams and British Realities 1945-50 by Correlli Barnett (1995)
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What a devastating indictment of British character, government and industry! What an unforgiving expose of our failings as a nation, an economy, a political class and a culture!
Nine years separated publication of Barnett’s ferocious assault on Britain’s self-satisfied myth about its glorious efforts in the Second World War, The Audit of War (1986) and this sequel describing how the Attlee government threw away a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to modernise Britain’s creaking infrastructure and industry – The Lost Victory: British Dreams and British Realities, 1945-50.
I imagine Barnett and the publishers assumed most readers would have forgotten the detail of the earlier book and that this explains why some sections of this volume repeat The Audit of War’s argument pretty much word for word, down to the same phrases and jokes.
And these set the tone and aim which is to extend the brutal dissection of Britain’s wartime industrial failings…
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Good test of accents
01 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of education, economics of information, economics of media and culture Tags: economics of languages
Anti-science left in a nutshell
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in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, health economics Tags: anti-GMO movement, Anti-Science left, anti-vaccination movement, climate alarmists, cranks, vaccines
Deaf, blind and mighty: how Helen Keller learned to speak
31 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, health economics
V.V. Chari testifies on modern macroeconomics and financial crises
31 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, Edward Prescott, global financial crisis (GFC), great depression, great recession, macroeconomics, monetary economics, Robert E. Lucas Tags: new classical macroeconomics, New Keynesian macroeconomics, real business cycles
Finn Kydland on the slow recovery from the Great Recession
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in business cycles, fiscal policy, great recession, macroeconomics, politics - USA, public economics Tags: real business cycles
Pointless Destruction: The Appalling Environmental Cost of Wind Power
31 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
One issue that annoys RE zealots, like a burr under a frisky pony’s saddle blanket, is the wind industry’s rampant bird and bat slaughter. It’s an inconvenient truth to be sure. But, as with everything that the wind industry does, if you can’t keep a straight face while lying about it any more, then pull out all stops and cover it up.
The wholesale slaughter of millions of birds and bats – includes rare, endangered and majestic species, like America’s iconic bald and golden eagles. The default response from the wind industry is to lie like fury and – when the corpses can no longer be hidden and the lying fails – to issue court proceedings to literally bury those facts (see our post here).
The hackneyed retort from the wind cult is that cars, cats and tall buildings kill more birds than their beloveds.
Attempting to compare an…
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