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What do women and men go to prison for in NZ?
11 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, politics - New Zealand
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Ever-extending regulation
11 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
In the rush to regulate – that seems to characterise all our governments these days – it was announced yesterday that government plans to legislate to give the force of statute law (complete with penalties) to “do not knock” signs on someone’s front door. What next? Statutory penalties for, say, people who dawdle down Lambton Quay at lunchtime trying to text as they walk, or any of the many other minor social irritants?
But the initiative that particularly caught my eye was a proposal to legislate to fix the maximum cost of “high cost” credit at no more than 100 per cent of the value of the loan. Borrow $500 and the total interest and fees you will ever pay will be capped at $500. Apparently (judging from the high level material the minister published) regardless of how long the term of the loan is. That…
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It should be Imran Khan wearing the burqa because of his history as a successful London playboy
11 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
in cricket, discrimination, economics of religion, gender Tags: free speech, political correctness, regressive left
.@marksandspencers is stocking hajibs for girls as young as age three
11 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of religion Tags: political correctness, regressive left
AJP Taylor – “An Unusual Kind of Star”: Part 1
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in defence economics, economic history, television, war and peace
Minnesota Valve Turners Case Dismissed Without Necessity Defense
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“Stunning”: State Court Silences Climate Experts Set to Testify in Valve Turners’ Necessity Defense Trial “Four days before trial, for no apparent reason, the court eviscerated our defense, and essentially overruled itself.” Excerpts below in italics with my bolds.
Minneapolis October 8, 2018 In an eleventh hour decision, a Minnesota court “eviscerated” the defense of three activists—whose landmark trial began Monday for their 2016 multi-state #ShutItDown action that temporarily disabled tar sands pipelines crossing the U.S.-Canada border—by barring experts from testifying that their civil disobedience was necessary because fossil fuels are driving the global climate crisis.
While all charges against Steve Liptay, who filmed the Minnesota action, have been dropped, valve turners Emily Nesbitt Johnston and Annette Klapstein, along with their support person, Benjamin Joldersma, are still facing felony charges under Minnesota state law. Their legal team will now have to present their “necessity defense” without the slate…
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Ben Shapiro on Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, and Hillary
11 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, income redistribution, industrial organisation, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: 2016 presidential election
Deirdre McCloskey explains the origin of consultants
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in applied price theory, economic history, financial economics, law and economics Tags: Deirdre McCloskey
Class war cancelled- Piketty data crashes and burns
11 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
in econometerics, economic history, politics - USA, poverty and inequality Tags: top 1%
Laissez-Faire Rides Again
11 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
Simon Franek brings us another piece of buried treasure from the FEE archive. This time it is Murray Rothbard’s article “Laissez-Faire Rides Again” from the February 1973 edition of Intellectual Discourse. Click the image below for the PDF.
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