Spot on
26 Nov 2018 2 Comments
in defence economics, economics of information, economics of media and culture, energy economics, entrepreneurship, financial economics Tags: cranks
New York Times celebrates Muhammad and Islam twice in one edition, emphasizing only the good deeds of the Prophet, and informing us that “true Islam” doesn’t kill blasphemers
26 Nov 2018 Leave a comment
If you had any doubt that the New York Times is going the way of Authoritarian Leftism, which includes whitewashing the nasty bits of Islam, have a look at the two articles that appeared this week—in the same op-ed section.
The first is by Haroon Moghul (click on screenshot below), described as “a fellow in Jewish-Muslim relations at the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America and the author of ‘How to Be a Muslim: An American Story’.”
Moghul recounts a time in his youth when he was on the verge of atheism, since he couldn’t personally connect with his faith. Then he took a trip to Medina with his brother, and there he had an epiphany that brought him back to Islam:
In Medina I realized I actually believed all the stories about him. That he buried the least loved of his fellow Arabs with his own hands. That…
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What Happened to the Transsexual Rights Movement? More on Percentages and Prevalence
26 Nov 2018 Leave a comment
In my previous post, we took a look at the claim that trans people “have always been here” in the numbers at which they’re now emerging, and found it wanting.
Now, I’d like to turn our attention to the fact that the trans rights movement has clearly undergone significant changes in the last two decades.
Twenty years ago, trans people were not making the claim that they had “always been” their preferred sex. They knew biological sex existed, and the idea of a non-transitioned, non-passing trans person entering into opposite-sex spaces was absurd.
Today, things are very different. Online trans activists are brash and bold with their claims that biological sex doesn’t exist and neither should sex-based protections. They also seem to share a belief unique to transgender people that they must be recognized as their preferred sex in order to exist at all.
When women notice…
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.@jamespeshaw should estimate the cost of global warming to NZ as a % GDP
26 Nov 2018 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - New Zealand Tags: climate alarmism
Gabrielle Sanchez on product differention and quality assurance in people smuggling
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in applied price theory, development economics, economics of crime, economics of information, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, international economic law, international economics, International law, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, politics - USA, survivor principle Tags: asymmetric information, economics of immigration
What Have We Learned from the Collapse of Communism? by Peter Boettke
26 Nov 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, entrepreneurship, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, law and economics, Public Choice Tags: fall of communism
Watching History of the Automobile: no cosy Detroit oligopoly – cutthroat competition over price, radically better new models; rollercoaster of massive profits then ruinous losses
25 Nov 2018 Leave a comment
in Austrian economics, economic history, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, survivor principle Tags: competition law, creative destruction
Yale Brozen at http://www.independent.org/publications/article.asp?id=1159
Automakers and the Arsenal of Democracy
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War II
Is Public Wi-Fi Safe?
25 Nov 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, economics of media and culture, law and economics
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