How London is fighting its nightmare traffic
04 May 2019 Leave a comment
in transport economics, urban economics Tags: congestion charges, road pricing
Guardian falsely claims Palestinians were ethnically “cleansed” from Jaffa
03 May 2019 Leave a comment
TheGuardian today published a review by anti-Israelwriter Ben Ehrenreich of a book called Stone Men: The Palestinians Who Built Israel‘ by Andrew Ross.
Ehrenreich’s review – which naturally avoids any semblance of balance or nuance and toes the desired Guardian narrative of Zionist original sin – includes the following claim:
[Jews] constructed a brand new modernist city distinct – and segregated – from its ancient neighbour, Palestinian Jaffa, which was built of weathered stone. In 1948, Jaffa would be cleansed of 97% of its Arab population
The word “cleansed” of course would suggest to most readers that 97% of Palestinians were expelled or in some way forced out by Israeli forces that year – a claim totally at odds with the historical record. As CAMERA, and commentator Dr. Petra Marquardt-Bigman, recently demonstrated in response to a NY Times article, the overwhelming majority of Jaffa’s Arab…
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2. Tell a New Story – Doughnut Economics or @KateRaworth is a @MontPelerinSoc conspiracy theorist
03 May 2019 Leave a comment
in business cycles, discrimination, economic growth, economic history, economics of regulation, F.A. Hayek, financial economics, gender, global financial crisis (GFC), human capital, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, macroeconomics, Milton Friedman, occupational choice, Public Choice Tags: conspiracy theories, conspiracy theorists
Climate Change: What Do Scientists Say?
03 May 2019 1 Comment
Climate change is an urgent topic of discussion among politicians, journalists and celebrities. But what do scientists say about climate change? Does the data validate those who say humans are causing the earth to catastrophically warm? In this PragerU video, MIT atmospheric physicist and one of the world’s leading climatologists, Richard Lindzen, summarizes the science behind climate change.
The Actress kidnapped by Kim Jong il and forced to make movies (Strange Stories)
03 May 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of crime, law and economics Tags: North Korea
Introduction to Microeconomics (Lecture 9: Monopoly and Competition) Murray N. Rothbard
03 May 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, economics of regulation, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: antitrust economics, competition law
Williams College administration expresses support for segregated housing
03 May 2019 Leave a comment
Not long ago I wrote about how both a group of students and the student newspaper at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts are pushing to get “affinity housing” for students (a euphemism for segregated housing). The activist students, grouped together under the rubric of CARENow, have an Instagram site with many of their thoughts and demands. On that site, as well as at this link, appears a list of demands from CARENow addressed to the Trustees of the College (there is also a letter to the President of Williams, Maud Mandel, demanding her response by tomorrow at 5 p.m.)
One of the demands is for segregated housing: housing segregated not just by race, but by sexuality and other “minority characteristics”:
3. Improve community spaces and establish affinity housing for Black, queer, and all other minoritized students.
“Minoritized” is a new word that was coined to emphasize deliberate oppression rather…
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The 1940 Occupation of Iceland
03 May 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War II
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