Biosphere 2: An American Space Odyssey | Retro Report | The New York Times
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in economics of media and culture Tags: space
Is there a Republican in the house?
05 Feb 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of education, politics - USA Tags: voter demographics
Modernity Britain: Opening the Box 1957–59 by David Kynaston (2014)
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Opening the Box is the first book in volume three of David Kynaston’s epic social history of post-war Britain.
It opens on 10 January 1957 as Harold Macmillan drops by Buckingham Palace to be made Prime Minister, and ends on Friday 9 October 1959 as the final results show that the Conservatives have won a staggering majority of 100 in the General Election: so the book covers about two years and nine months of British domestic history.
I say ‘domestic’ because there is no, absolutely no, mention of the British Empire, the independence struggles / small wars the British Army was fighting, or the impact of foreign affairs on Britain. The Suez Crisis was dealt with briskly and briefly at the very end of the previous volume: this book is utterly focused on the domestic scene.
In its end points Kynaston provides the usual bombardment of quotations from hundreds of diverse…
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Woke left condemns little chimney sweep boy (one of the Worst Jobs in History) as racist! Child labour victim had no champions on the left
05 Feb 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, labour economics, movies Tags: child labour, political correctness, virtue signaling
Day 36 of @EugenieSage’s #plasticbagfascism: 15th 20 cent bag
05 Feb 2019 Leave a comment
in environmental economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: recycling
Scalia on religious liberty
05 Feb 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, economics of religion, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: free speech, Freedom of religion
The Mozilla oral arguments and the ongoing hell of the “net neutrality” debate
05 Feb 2019 Leave a comment
Palestinian “pay for slay”, an odious practice ignored by the Western press
05 Feb 2019 Leave a comment
You already know that it galls me when people extol the “oppressed” Palestinians—whose government has refused generous Israeli offers of peace time after time—and decry the “war crimes” committed against them by Israel. They never mention, of course, the three big war crimes regularly committed by Palestinians, which are far more odious than the accusations of “occupation” which are arguably questionable.
Palestinian war crimes. 1.) combatants don’t wear uniforms, something required by international law. 2.) Palestinians deliberately target Israeli civilians, also banned by international law. 3.) And Palestinian fighters hide behind civilians or fire rockets from within civilian areas, also prohibited by international law.
But one of the most odious and reprehensible acts that the Palestinian government commits towards Israel is to pay terrorists for killing Israelis, often civilians. If the terrorist dies as a “martyr”, his or her family gets money—often a substantial sum. This is called “pay for…
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Q&A: Thomas Sowell 2005
05 Feb 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, economic history, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of regulation, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, Thomas Sowell, welfare reform
The deadly race to the South Pole
05 Feb 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, transport economics Tags: Age of exploration
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