Should the bikini be banned? (1961)
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in economic history, economics of regulation Tags: meddlesome preferences, nanny state
Book Review
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Winston Churchill was famously ignored by his mother and father during his childhood, although perhaps no more so than any other aristocratic parents ignored their children in the Victorian age. They would diligently rush to his side on the occasions when he fell terribly ill, but neither parent spent nearly any time with their son and they seemed particularly disinterested in him. Lord Randolph rarely saw Winston and, perhaps attributed to the effects of his fatal illness, subjected him by letter to cruel rebukes and smashing broadsides. Lady Randolph was bored by both by Winston and his brother Jack and did not bother much to see them, as Andrew Roberts notes she saw her sons a mere 13 times in the first seven months of 1882 (for comparison, she had tea with her friend Lady Blanche Hozier 26 times in that span). Parental affection and attention was delegated to the…
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Thomas Schelling, Professor of National Security at University of Maryland
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in defence economics, politics - USA, Thomas Schelling, war and peace Tags: Atomic weapons, Cold War, Cuban missile crisis, game theory
Conflicts & Wars In The Aftermath of WW1 I THE GREAT WAR Epilogue
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in defence economics, economic history, war and peace Tags: World War I
Jonathan Pie’s On Cultural Appropriation
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in discrimination, economics of education, gender, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, property rights Tags: political correctness
Should Trans Women Compete With Women?
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in gender, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, sports economics
Ten Minute English and British History #13 – The First Scottish War of Independence.
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in defence economics, International law, war and peace Tags: Scotland
When Do Kids Develop Empathy?
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in health economics Tags: child development
How did Britain Conquer India? | Animated History
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in defence economics, development economics, economic history, war and peace Tags: age of empires, economics of colonialism, India
Aymann Ismail: progressive Muslim surprised by Muslim Homophobia despite his parents denying that there are gay muslims
17 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of religion Tags: regressive left
Coup-Proofing, Military Defection, and the Arab Spring: (Tullock Vindicated!)
17 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, defence economics, economics of bureaucracy, Public Choice Tags: Arab Spring, economics of revolutions, Gordon Tullock, military coups
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