Crisis and Command with John Yoo
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in defence economics, economics of crime, International law, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: war against terror
Gong Farmer (Worst Jobs in History)
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in economic history, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice
Climate economics (UG): Policy instruments for emission reduction
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in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
Justice Antonin Scalia’s witty remarks at the Acton Institute’s 7th anniversary dinner
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in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: constitution law
What Do Entrepreneurs Actually Do?
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in applied price theory, Austrian economics, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, survivor principle Tags: entrepreneurial alertness
Champion of Liberty, David Friedman
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in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, David Friedman, defence economics, economics of crime, property rights, welfare reform Tags: anarchocapitalism
Fool House Rock: How Measles is Making a Comeback
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in health economics, politics - USA Tags: cognitive psychology, vaccines
Is Renewable Energy Affordable?
12 Mar 2019 5 Comments
Derek Birkett is a retired grid system control engineer with two decades of experience under both nationalization and private ownership. He has had project responsibility on installation and commissioning at five major coal and nuclear power stations across the UK from which chartered status was awarded.
In this talk he delivered during January for the Global Warming Policy Foundation, Derek Birkett outlines some of the problems created for the grid by an increasing amount of renewable generators.
The Canons of Economics
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by Fred E. Foldvary
A “canon” is a set of items which are regarded by the chiefs of a field to be the accepted elements of the domain. Every religion, for example, has a canon of accepted ideas and documents such as the established books of the Bible. Every scientific field has a canon of propositions and facts accepted as genuine by the experts and by those in authority such as editors of the major journals and most members of the departments of the prominent universities.
The canon of economics consists of the propositions, methods, and historical facts accepted as true and applicable by most scholarly economists. This canon appears in textbooks and in the articles of the prominent journals. The ideas and methods outside the canon are referred to as heterodox economics, in contrast to the mainstream or orthodox canon. There have been articles and organizations about the mainstream…
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Looks like estimating the cost of global warming as a percentage of GDP isn’t as hard as @jamespeshaw @Mfe_News claim
12 Mar 2019 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmists
Protect women’s rights and spaces: Submission on the Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration Bill
12 Mar 2019 Leave a comment
Excellent submission
1 March 2018
Submission on the Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration Bill
To the Governance and Administration Select Committee,
I am making this submission to the above committee as an individual. My submission is in response to the opening up of the Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration Act (BDMRRA) for amendments through a Bill before the House.
My submission seeks to ensure that the BDMRRA is made consistent with Section 21(1a, 1m) of the Human Rights Act (HRA) 1993, which lists sex as well as sexual orientation (heterosexual, homosexual, lesbian or bisexual orientation) as prohibited grounds for discrimination. My submission seeks to ensure that the BDMRRA is also made consistent with Section 19 of the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act and with the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), particularly Article 1, which reads:
For the purposes of the…
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