Clint Eastwood Tribute – Don Rickles – 2000 Kennedy Center Honors
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The Australian approach to “consumer protection” policy is a threat to consumer welfare and free speech
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The Inequality of the Equality Act: Concerns from the Left
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in economics of crime, gender, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: political correctness
Creative destruction in legacy media
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in industrial organisation, survivor principle Tags: creative destruction
The #1 reason people die early, in each country
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in development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics Tags: The Great Escape
Price Theory David D Friedman
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in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, David Friedman, economics of regulation, law and economics
Prohibition club in Chicago
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This is the first time I’ve seen actual footage of a “speakeasy”—an illegal alcohol-dispensing joint that operated during Prohibition in America (between 1920 and 1933). Sent by reader Michael, the video even has sound, and shows dancing girls, a band, and an oily top-hatted master of ceremonies. And, as Michael pointed out, the booze is clearly visible on the tables.
The YouTube notes say this,
Old film of Mack’s Club (12 East Pearson Street) in Chicago, Il on February 13, 1931. The troupe leader is Harry Glen. These scenes were taken with early Movietone sound cameras.
This club was in downtown Chicago, and I can’t find any other information about it, nor any about Harry Glen. Perhaps ambitious readers may find other information. I’m just showing this because movies of speakeasies during Prohibition, which were illegal, are rare, and those with sound even rarer.
I don’t know how America survived…
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Marxism explained
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in Marxist economics Tags: envy, labour theory of value
The Sopranos – Meadow tries to buy meth from Christopher and Brendan
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Stephen Laws: Why a Money Resolution with Queen’s Recommendation Is Required for a Bill for the Postponing or Cancelling of “Exit Day”
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In a post on this blog yesterday, Andrew Denny argued that I was wrong to suggest that a money resolution, with Crown recommendation, would be needed under the Standing Orders of the House of Commons for a provision of a Bill for the purpose of securing the postponement of the expiry of the UK’s Article 50 notification or the revocation of that notification (“a postponing or revoking provision”).
He accurately sets out the standing orders and my argument from the paper, written for Policy Exchange, in which I made the suggestion. That argument is that any postponing or cancelling provision would involve (as the published Bills for securing a postponement do) a provision for the postponement or cancellation of “exit day” (within the meaning of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018). That, in turn, would mean the postponement or cancellation of the repeal of section 2(3) of the European…
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The ‘duck curve’ is solar energy’s greatest challenge
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in energy economics, environmental economics, politics - USA Tags: renewable energy, solar power, wind power
My mistake: 18 sentenced to prison for illicit drug use, not 18 for marijuana use. Three sentenced for cannabis use.
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in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: marijuana decrimilization
The Great Escape from energy poverty
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in development economics, energy economics Tags: The Great Escape
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