Why gains most from stronger hate speech laws? @NZHumanRights
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in law and economics, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: free speech, political correctness, regressive left, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
Sobering Facts about Global Warming
27 Aug 2019 1 Comment
A Short List Of Facts Global Warming Alarmists Don’t Want To Face by Issues and Insights Editorial Board. Excerpts in italics with my bolds.
Democrats nearly had a brawl last week in California after the party’s Resolutions Committee rejected a proposed climate debate among Democratic presidential candidates. Global warming so fully occupies the thinking of some that there’s no room for information that will contradict their faith.
If they’d only open their minds they’d see:
The U.S. hasn’t warmed since 2005. America isn’t the entire world. But the alarmists gleefully point out regional heatwaves and the “hottest day on record” when cities endure summer scorchers. So let’s look at the data. The U.S. Climate Reference Network, “a sophisticated climate-observing network specifically designed and deployed for quantifying climate change on a national scale,” has found there’s been no warming in the U.S. going back to 2005.
In fact, says meteorologist…
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The cost of #globalwarming by 2100 is small @jamespeshaw
27 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmists
Can We Control the Weather with Technology?
27 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of natural disasters, environmental economics
Robert Lucas and Paco Buera | Idea Flows and Economic Growth
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in economic growth, economics of education, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, macroeconomics, Robert E. Lucas Tags: endogenous growth theory
What free speech isn’t
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Ken White is an attorney specializing in free-speech issues, and is the main contributor to the well-known and useful law website Popehat. This week he has a good article in The Atlantic about American free-speech law, which you can read by clicking on the screenshot below:
We talk a lot about free speech on this website, as it’s an important issue in politics, especially on American college campuses. But “free speech” as construed by students often differs considerably from free speech as the courts have defined it under the First Amendment. White’s article aims to let us know what the law really is, not what it should be. As he says:
What speech should be protected by the First Amendment is open to debate. Americans can, and should, argue about what the law ought to be. That’s what free people do. But while we’re all entitled to our…
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Exploring Liberty: The Problem of Political Ignorance
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in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economics of information, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: rational ignorance
Robert Lucas on income distribution
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in applied welfare economics, development economics, economics of education, growth disasters, growth miracles, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: The Great Escape, The Great Fact
Reason’s Remy With a Beatles Parody
26 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
Here is Reason’s Remy with a parody of the Beatles, with Remy playing the whole band. Making fun of the Left is always great fun, and Remy is good at it.
Coincidence
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in energy economics, environmental economics, politics - Australia Tags: solar power, wind power
minimum wage research is more complicated than you think
26 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
When it comes to minimum wage research, most folks join one of two teams. First, Team Econ 101 will tell you, sensibly in my view, that when raise the price of something, people buy less of it. Labor is not exception. Second, Team Common Man says that this is misleading. Sensibly, they argue that firms have slack and customers who purchase services offered by low wage workers, such as fast food, can usually pay a little more. To make things worse, Team Econ 101 and Team Common Man love to cherry pick studies that show why they are right.
So what’s the deal? I recently listened to this very long and extensive interview with Jacob Vigdor, professor of public policy at the University of Washington, that sheds light on this issue. He is in a very special position to discuss minimum wage research because he designed the only major…
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