Uncertainty in Climate Change, with William Nordhaus @jamespeshaw @Mfe_News
19 Mar 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: carbon tax
The Tragedy of the Commons
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in applied price theory, economics of information, law and economics, property rights Tags: tragedy of the commons
Guardian gets Israeli ‘move right’ completely wrong
19 Mar 2019 Leave a comment
In a March 14th article, the Guardian’s Jerusalem correspondent Oliver Holmes attempts to explain, in advance of upcoming national elections, the decline of the Israeli peace camp. However, beyond quoting several completely non-representative Israelis, such Yehuda Shaul, founder of the NGO Breaking the Silence, and the self-described non-Zionist Haaretz reporter Amira Haas, Holmes’ piece (The fall of the Israeli peace movement, and why leftists continues to fight”) offers no actual analysis of the ‘death of the left’ and what describes as the country’s “wild lurch to the right”.
Fortunately, this very topic was the focus of a very insightful piece by Yossi Klein Halevi in The Atlantic:
…the second intifada—which began in 2000, shortly after Barak accepted the principle of a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital, and which resulted in thousands of deaths and injuries among Israelis and Palestinians—remains the great Israeli trauma of this…
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How Don Lavoie Changed the Debate about Socialism
19 Mar 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, defence economics, economic history, entrepreneurship, history of economic thought, Marxist economics
Jordan Peterson: Why is Marxism so Attractive?
19 Mar 2019 Leave a comment
in liberalism, Marxist economics, Public Choice
Robin Williams on the Vatican and homosexuality
18 Mar 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture
Forgot to post this @NZTreasury OIA on @ProfSteveKeen’s 2-day visit winning no support for a model touted to have predicted #GFC
18 Mar 2019 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, global financial crisis (GFC), great recession, macroeconomics, monetary economics Tags: Post-Keynesian macroeconomics
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