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.@WinstonPeters knows nothing of Czech police corruption or Czech police death squads
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in economics of crime, politics - New Zealand
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Chess Opening: Urusov Gambit
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in economics of media and culture Tags: chess
George Patton & Douglas MacArthur In World War 1 I WHO DID WHAT IN WW1?
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I, World War II
Edward Prescott on real business cycle theory as a genuine surprise
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in business cycles, economic growth, Edward Prescott, macroeconomics, monetary economics Tags: real business cycle theory
The fascinating history of cemeteries – Keith Eggener
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in economic history, economics of media and culture
Catholic peers and the Gunpowder Plot
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Remember, remember the fifth of November… Today we hear from Dr Ben Coates of the House of Lords 1604-29 Section about the warning of Catholic Peers before the Gunpowder Plot…
Lord Monteagle by John De Critz
On 26 October 1605 the Catholic nobleman William Parker, 5th Lord Monteagle, received an anonymous letter urging him to absent himself from the forthcoming session of Parliament, due to open on 5th November. This missive, the first significant hint of the Gunpowder Plot, warned mysteriously that those attending ‘shall receive a terrible blow … and yet they shall not see who hurts them’. Monteagle took the letter to Court, where he showed it to the secretary of state, Robert Cecil, 1st earl of Salisbury. The earl was initially sceptical of the letter, in part because he thought it ‘very improbable that only one nobleman should be warned and no more’ (Winwood’s Memorials ed…
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Why Bernie Sanders’ Medicare for All is a Bad Idea
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in applied price theory, health economics, politics - USA Tags: health insurance
Early Christian Schisms – Before Imperium – Extra History – #1
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in economic history, economics of religion Tags: Roman empire
From white supremacy to Barack Obama: The history of the Democratic Party
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in economic history, politics - USA
Patrick J. Kehoe “Asset Prices and Employment Fluctuations”
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in business cycles, economic growth, global financial crisis (GFC), great recession, labour economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics, unemployment
Still imagining
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in environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmists
Fiscal Externalities and Meddlesome Preferences
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I’ll continue some discussion from the comments at TVHE here because it’s getting significantly off the topic of the original post.
I said:
I’ve come across quite a few people advocating breeding licenses in casual conversation, it doesn’t seem that much more repugnant to add a genetic element.
Some parents are bad, therefore we should stop them being parents. The unstated premise is that we have a wise and benevolent government capable of doing this. I don’t think eugenic thought is as anachronistic as you suggest. I’m guessing most people think eugenics was largely confined to Nazi Germany, and are unaware of the nastiness that happened in the States and elsewhere under liberal democratic governments. We’re not racist like those Nazis: we have nothing to worry about.
Eric Crampton replied:
Brad, I think we’ve got another example here of fiscal externalities generating meddlesome preferences – here of some of the…
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