Islam and the Future of Tolerance (2018) | Official Trailer (HD)
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in defence economics, economics of crime, law and economics, liberalism, movies Tags: free speech
How the populists came to power
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Rather good: The left, once legitimately concerned with the conditions of the poor, ignored that the best solution for poverty is the free market. Instead, they decided they would crush the common people they swore to protect, calling them homophobic, misogynists and so on. Common people answered by voting for whoever was on the other side of the political spectrum.
Jair Bolsonaro was elected president in Brazil. Donald Trump in the US. In other countries, similar politicians are gaining popular support. Some are calling these politicians “populists”. I don’t really know what they mean by this term. The populists that I know better are Getúlio Vargas, Brazil’s president for almost 20 years in the mid-20th century and Juan Peron, a leading political figure in Argentina in the same time period. What they had in common? Both fought the communist influence in Latin America, favored the labor movement and were anti-liberal. They were also extremely personalist, leading to something that could be understood as a cult of personality. I completely fail to see important similarities between Trump and Bolsonaro on the one hand and Vargas and Peron on the other. But I can see some similarities between Trump and Bolsonaro. The latter two both came to power against what the left…
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Further evidence of the superiority of Western values: white male theory of history edition
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in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of crime, labour economics, law and economics, liberalism, property rights Tags: Age of Enlightenment, economics of colonialism
But environmentalists don’t care if their policy works
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in economics of regulation, environmental economics
@oxfam really scrap the bottom of the barrel
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in development economics, economics of bureaucracy, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, Marxist economics, Public Choice Tags: The Great Escape
How is The Great Escape going
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in development economics, economic history, growth miracles Tags: The Great Escape
False rape accuser sent to prison
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in economics of crime, law and economics Tags: bribery and corruption, crime and punishment, law and order
A history of the Kashmir conflict | The Economist
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in development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, growth disasters, income redistribution, international economics, International law, law and economics, personnel economics, rentseeking Tags: economics of borders, economics of colonialism, India, maps, Pakistan
When you’re too tight to turn the heating on | Short Stuff
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in television
Why do progressives hate progress? | Steven Pinker
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in defence economics, economic history, economics of media and culture, growth miracles Tags: pessimism bias, The Great Enrichment
Primitive tribesmen complain about technologically superior invaders
18 Jan 2019 Leave a comment
There is a new article in the New York Times Magazine (Is Ancient DNA Research Revealing New Truths — or Falling Into Old Traps?) , in which some pinhead repeats complaints about David Reich crushing his enemies [archaeologists] , driving them before him, and hearing the lamentations of their women. He doesn’t give them much respect.
They don’t deserve respect. Sure, he has a far more powerful method. Sequencing DNA gives you billions of bits, orders of magnitude more than staring at potsherds. But it is fair to look at how archaeologists did with the tools they had: terrible, horrible, no good, very bad. They really, really wanted to create detailed stories of local social change, stories that didn’t sound like something by Robert E, Howard, full of thud and blunder. Not stories about barbarian conquest, population replacement, and mating with nonhuman races.
But that’s what happened.
The origin of…
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All for @Greenpeace pushing veganism as a way to fight #globalwarming, reach out to undecided voters
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in environmental economics, global warming Tags: vaganism
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