Gary Becker: Fear, Technology, & Education
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in development economics, economic history, health economics Tags: life expectancies, The Great Escape
Victor Davis Hanson:. Why War?
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Filed under: Domestic Policy, Foreign Policy, Freedom, History, Military, National Security, Politics, The United States | Tags: The Hoover Institution, The Study of War, What Starts Wars?
Especially right and necessary for Memorial Day, Victor Davis Hanson talks about War. Why do we have wars? What makes men start wars? How do you end a war? How can we avoid war? Is war simply natural to the human condition? Is there no hope? He spans the entire history of the wars of civilization and shows how the study of the history of war can be a torch to light our way through the darkness. Absolutely brilliant. It’s 20 minutes long and worth every minute.
Reposted from the same time last year.
Friedman Friday” Free to Choose by Milton Friedman: Episode “What is wrong with our schools?” (Part 1 of transcript and video)
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Here is the video clip and transcript of the film series FREE TO CHOOSE episode “What is wrong with our schools?” Part 1 of 6.
Volume 6 – What’s Wrong with our Schools
Transcript:
Friedman: These youngsters are beginning another day at one of America’s public schools, Hyde Park High School in Boston. What happens when they pass through those doors is a vivid illustration of some of the problems facing America’s schools.
They have to pass through metal detectors. They are faced by security guards looking for hidden weapons. They are watched over by armed police. Isn’t that awful. What a way for kids to have to go to school, through metal detectors and to be searched. What can they conceivably learn under such circumstances. Nobody is happy with this kind of education. The taxpayers surely aren’t. This isn’t cheap education. After all, those uniformed policemen, those metal…
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Only recently came across these corrected map projections
20 Apr 2019 2 Comments
in economics of media and culture Tags: maps
North Korean defector tells how he secretly made millions for Kim regime
20 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, growth disasters, law and economics, Public Choice, rentseeking, war and peace Tags: North Korea
Why are sports nuts always on these lists of sinners bound for damnation?
20 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of religion Tags: free speech
Funniest Foster Brooks bit on Dean Martin Roast of Don Rickles
20 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
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