Unintended consequences of @eugeniesage’s #plasticbagfascism
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in economics of regulation, environmental economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: offsetting behaviour, recycling, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
The environmental curse of @eugeniesage’s #plasticbagfascism
01 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, environmental economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: offsetting behaviour, recycling, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
“Mainstream economists reach mathematical conclusions about their model of the economy that they don’t like…and are then willing to make patently absurd assumptions to rescue their desired equilibrium conclusion” @ProfSteveKeen with a list from Deirdre McCloskey on what is yet to be shored up
01 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in history of economic thought Tags: market failure
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, 2016 Leaders incentives to avoid peace
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in defence economics, economics of bureaucracy, income redistribution, Public Choice, rentseeking, war and peace Tags: game theory
My New Republic piece on the unnecessary death of Makayla Sault
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I’ve rewritten Tuesday’s post on the death of First Nations child Makayla Sault. a martyr to her parents’ faith and the political correctness of the Canadian government (as well as the cowardice of some Canadian doctors); and it’s been published by The New Republic.
The rewritten piece is called “A little girl died because Canada chose cultural sensitivity over Western medicine,” and you might have a look to see what’s up there (according to Stephen Fry’s Dictum, I don’t read the comments).
But looking at it to make sure that my essay came out okay, I did see the first comment: kudos to Alex Musso for posting this familiar graphic:
Oh, and the editor at TNR found a heartbreaking picture of Makayla to head the piece. What an adorable child! She’s dead now, and didn’t have to be.
Ideology versus science (again): University of New South Wales urges professors to lie about the arrival date of Aboriginals
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A reader sent me a link to an article from The Australian which, sadly, is behind a paywall (click on screenshot to see). It is the very height of shameless pandering to ethnic groups who accept false stories about their history, and it’s also the nadir of academic truth. (If you want a transcript of the entire piece, judicious inquiry will yield one.)
For you, dear readers, I’ll transcribe the relevant parts:
University science lecturers have been warned off making the familiar statement in class that “Aboriginal people have been in Australia for 40,000 years.”
It puts a limit on the occupation of Australia and many indigenous peoples see this as “inappropriate,” according to the University of NSW language advice for staff.
The document suggests that it is “more appropriate” to say that Aborigines have been here since the beginning of the “Dreaming/s” because this “reflects the beliefs of many…
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Are the Poor Getting Poorer?
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in economic history, politics - USA, poverty and inequality Tags: pessimism, The Great Enrichment
Didn’t know Japan was that religious, and China is seriously irreligious
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Seth MacFarlane on Dem Debates | Real Time with @BillMaher (HBO)
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in politics - USA, television Tags: 2020 presidential election
Lenin’s Death and Stalin’s Rise to Power I BETWEEN 2 WARS I 1924
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in defence economics, development economics, economic history, growth disasters, Marxist economics, war and peace Tags: Russian revolution, World War I
Hitler ❤️ Paris – WW2 – 044 – June 29 1940
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War II
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