Thomas Sowell on The Limits of Discrimination
11 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in development economics, discrimination, economic history, economics of regulation, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: racial discrimination
The reports are coming in – and they bring fresh challenges for the Ardern Govt
11 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
19,000 school trustees, now 19 000 political enemies
Finance Minister Grant Robertson has had a good run this year, with the economy performing well and the government’s books in excellent shape.
Despite ministers splashing out cash in every direction, the half-year economic and fiscal update (out this week) may even offer the Finance Minister scope for a bit more spending in the years ahead, without endangering his self-imposed goal of sustainable surpluses .
But a shadow may be beginning to emerge from this apparently cloudless sky. It lies in the reports from all those reviews the government called for in its first months of office.
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Thomas C. Schelling on game theory, war and peace, and locks on atomic bombs
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in defence economics, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: Atomic weapons, Cold War, game theory, Thomas Schelling, Vietnam war
The Numbers Game: The Paradox of Household Income
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in economic history, politics - USA, poverty and inequality Tags: top 1%
#Brexit: why economists think UK will be poorer after leaving EU by @FT
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in applied welfare economics, industrial organisation, international economic law, international economics, International law Tags: Brexit
What we get wrong about affirmative action by @Voxdotcom
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in discrimination, economics of education, politics - USA, poverty and inequality Tags: affirmative action, racial discrimination
WW1 World Leaders & Generals After The War I THE GREAT WAR Epilogue
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
Gavin Phillipson and Alison L. Young: Wightman: What Would Be the UK’s Constitutional Requirements to Revoke Article 50?
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Today the Court of Justice of the European Union delivered its judgment in Wightman. This followed the opinion of Advocate General Campos Sánchez-Bordona, concluding that the UK may unilaterally revoke its notification of its intention to leave the EU. In a similar manner to the AG, the CJEU placed conditions on this unilateral revocation. A formal process would be needed to notify the European Council of the UK’s intention to revoke article 50. Such notice of revocation would have to be unequivocal and unconditional (para 74), and, importantly, ‘in accordance with the constitutional requirements of the Member State’, in this case, the UK, and following a ‘democratic process’ (para 66). It would also have to take place before the end of the Article 50 negotiation period, or any agreed extension, and before a Withdrawal Agreement between the exiting state and the EU had been ‘concluded’ – i.e. entered…
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