Economically Speaking: Government Regulation (B1208) – George Stigler
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in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, economics of regulation, George Stigler
What Happens If You Use Your Feces as Fertilizer?
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in economics of regulation, environmental economics, health economics Tags: recycling
The Folly of Rent Control
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People sometimes ask me how I’ve managed to write a column every single day since November 2009.
Sadly, the answer has a lot to do with politicians having a vote-buying and power-grabbing incentive to produce a never-ending supply of bad policies.
Consider what just happened in Oregon.
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown signed into law a first-in-the-nation rent control bill Thursday…Senate Bill 608′s rent control and
eviction protections go into effect immediately. …The law caps annual rent increases to 7 percent plus inflation throughout the state, which amounts to a limit of just over 10 percent this year. …The bill passed quickly through the House and Senate amid a Democratic supermajority.
This is spectacularly bad policy.
- My first reaction is that such laws should be unconstitutional since politicians are violating a provision of the Bill of Rights
by taking part of the value of private property without compensation. - My second…
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Rather close to the mark
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in environmental economics, global warming, politics - USA Tags: climate alarmism
MONEYBALL – breaking biases – FREQUENCY BASED PROBABILITY / STATISTICS – MATHEMATICS in the Movies
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How did Apollo deal with the Van Allen radiation belts ?
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in economics of media and culture Tags: moon landing, space
That blokes are bigger and stronger is a fact now under threat from woke feelings
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in gender, health economics, law and economics, sports economics Tags: political correctness
Post WW1 Violence Theory – Paris Peace Conference I BEYOND THE GREAT WAR
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in defence economics, economic history, laws of war, war and peace Tags: World War I
United States and India: Two of the world’s worst countries for women? | FACTUAL FEMINIST
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in discrimination, economics of crime, gender, law and economics, politics - USA
WIND TURBINES Are Neither Clean Nor Green And They Provide Zero Global Energy
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SCIENCE WRITER and best-selling author Matt Ridley discusses Wind Power in a must read piece out of the Speccie…
The Global Wind Energy Council recently released its latest report, excitedly boasting that ‘the proliferation of wind energy into the global power market continues at a furious pace, after it was revealed that more than 54 gigawatts of clean renewable wind power was installed across the global market last year’.
You may have got the impression from announcements like that, and from the obligatory pictures of wind turbines in any BBC story or airport advert about energy, that wind power is making a big contribution to world energy today. You would be wrong. Its contribution is still, after decades — nay centuries — of development, trivial to the point of irrelevance.
Here’s a quiz; no conferring. To the nearest whole number, what percentage of…
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