Blokes are bigger
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in health economics, law and economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, sports economics
India’s Elections Last For 39 Days. Here’s Why. | @nytimes
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in law and economics Tags: India
“Friedman Friday” (“Free to Choose” episode 3 – Anatomy of a Crisis. part 7of 7)
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TEMIN: We don’t think the big capital arose before the government did?
VON HOFFMAN: Listen, what are we doing here? I mean __ defending big government is like defending death and taxes. When was the last time you met anybody that was in favor of big government?
FRIEDMAN: Today, today I met Bob Lekachman, I met __
LEKACHMAN: But that’s not to say __ with discrimination __not per se.
VON HOFFMAN: You’re in favor of certain functions __
FRIEDMAN: I make a living by making distinctions, after all. Certainly not without qualification.
MCKENZIE: Von Hoffman, you have the floor.
VON HOFFMAN: What I was going to say is, I think most of us are not in favor of big government as a theory. The question that keeps haunting me here is, how do you, going back to your question of just the monetary regulation, how do you make __ and…
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Decolonization: a patriarchal plot against Saudi women. More equal in the Ottoman empire
25 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, discrimination, economic history, economics of education, gender, law and economics, property rights, war and peace Tags: Ottoman Empire, World War I
How Italy Lost – North African Campaign 1940 | Animated History
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War II
Christopher Hitchens: The Lessons of 9/11
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in defence economics, economics of crime, economics of religion, law and economics, politics - USA, war and peace Tags: war against terror
The Armstrong and Miller Show | Best Of The Clumsy Art Historian
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Why were the Turks our enemies in 1914? Because Britain refused their offer of alliance in 1913
24 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
Ottoman empire could have stayed neutral
Both my grandfathers fought in the Great War, one in the Middle East and one in France. They survived (or I wouldn’t be here), but one was badly wounded in a gas attack. I’ve thought about this on Anzac Day for most of my 60+ years, but last year I learned something I hadn’t thought about and, as far as I can tell, hardly anyone else in Australia knows. We were only fighting Turkey because the British government refused their request for an alliance. I wrote about this last year, and I’m reposting it now.
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