Fake Socialism vs. Real Capitalism Jason Brennan
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in comparative institutional analysis, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, Marxist economics, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice Tags: capitalism and freedom
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in economics of religion, politics - New Zealand Tags: free speech
How This Island Got 10% of Their Money by Chance
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Life Peerages Act 1958: First Women Life Peers
30 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
Today marks the 60th anniversary of the announcement of the first life peers after the passing of the Life Peerages Act, 1958. This Act also allowed women to sit in the House of Lords for the first time so this blog is July’s installment of the Women and Parliament series. We are delighted to hear from guest blogger Dr Duncan Sutherland, a historian who has worked on women in Parliament for several years. Today he considers the experiences and contributions of the first four women life peers…
When the government announced the creation of life peers in 1958 to help revitalise the moribund Second Chamber, there was particular interest in who the first women appointed would be. Among those suggested but not chosen were Nancy Astor, former Suffragist Marjory Corbett Ashby and the elderly former Conservative Party activist Caroline Bridgeman. Three women passed over in 1958 would receive peerages…
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BBC senior editor defends double standards on terrorism
30 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
Those who have been following the BBC’s coverage of the recent attack at a synagogue near San Diego may have noticed that the sole use of the word terrorist appears in a quote from the wounded Rabbi in one of the BBC’s reports. A programme aired last month casts some light on related editorial policy.
The March 22nd edition of the BBC Radio 4 programme ‘Feedback’ included an item (from 1:03 here) concerning criticism of the BBC’s coverage of the terror attacks at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, the previous week. Presenter Roger Bolton spoke with the BBC News editorial director Kamal Ahmed and from 5:20 the conversation turned to “the use of the word terrorism”. [emphasis in italics in the original]
Bolton: “Should the BBC have used the term ‘terrorist attack’ instead of ‘shooting’?”
Ahmed: “On the issue of terror and terrorism…
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Empathy, John Rawls and JS Mill or why the state sector code of conduct was designed to drive empathy out of the @NZTreasury
30 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice
From Decety J, Yoder KJ. Empathy and motivation for justice: Cognitive empathy and concern, but not emotional empathy, predict sensitivity to injustice for others. Soc Neurosci. 2015;11(1):1–14. doi:10.1080/17470919.2015.1029593
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Paul Bloom on the many drawbacks of empathy in public policy-making
30 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, Public Choice
Nothing could be more true
30 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture Tags: conspiracy theorists
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