The Time Rock & Roll Saved Free speech
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in economic history, law and economics, Music, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: free speech
Gender Pay equality debate gets heated
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in discrimination, econometerics, economics of education, gender, health and safety, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: gender wage gap
.@OwenJones84 meets @jeremycorbyn supporter #JonathanPie | ‘Identity politics are used to shut down debate’ (Jones makes the best point against political correctness and the culture of offense)
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in liberalism Tags: political correctness, regressive left
Jonathan Pie’s Rant On Cultural Appropriation
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in liberalism Tags: political correctness
Ideas and Growth Lecture with Nobel Laureate Robert E. Lucas Jr
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in economic growth, economic history, economics of education, human capital, labour economics, macroeconomics, occupational choice, Robert E. Lucas
Ed Tries To Mediate The Peace Treaty | Season 1 Ep. 9 | THE ORVILLE
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Indians vote for the crooks because they are tough enough to deliver in a corrupt system
30 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
in development economics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, law and economics, Public Choice
More public money shovelled into the KiwiRail firebox to help the environment
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The poor old taxpayer who poured more than $1bn into state-owned KiwiRail during the term of the National government is being hit up for another $35m to reverse the decision taken two years ago to ditch the North Island electric locos and replace them with diesel-powered engines.
The Ardern-Peters-led coalition has decided to refurbish the 15 units in the electric fleet — even though the argument to replace them was “compelling” .
While the government now says it is keeping electric locomotives on the North Island Main Trunk Line running to help meet its long-term emissions goals and boost the economy, KiwiRail earlier said it was essentially running “a railway within a railway” by having the electric section. (The North Island Main Trunk runs from Auckland to Wellington but is electrified only between Hamilton and Palmerston North). The doubling up of service facilities, inventory, training and maintenance required with…
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