I’ve described in these pages what I consider to be the finest prose written in English; it includes the beginning of The Raj Quartet, by Paul Scott; the ending of The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald (but there’s also great stuff in Tender is the Night); much of Thomas Wolfe (especially “The Child by Tiger“, […]
A wonderful bit of prose
A wonderful bit of prose
17 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of education, movies
The Cass Report
17 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in health economics, liberalism, Marxist economics Tags: fads, free speech, political correctness, regressive left
The BBC reports: Children have been let down by a lack of research and “remarkably weak” evidence on medical interventions in gender care, a landmark review says. The Cass Review, published on Wednesday by paediatrician Dr Hilary Cass, calls for gender services for young people to match the standards of other NHS care. She says the…
The Cass Report
NIMBYism explained
16 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of regulation, income redistribution, law and economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, property rights, public economics, rentseeking, transport economics, urban economics Tags: housing affordability, land supply, zoning
Greens to a tee
16 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming Tags: expressive voting, rational irrationality
Green energy
16 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: atomic energy
Illustrating The Absurdity Of New York’s Energy Transition
15 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - USA Tags: New York
…to date, relative to this project there exists no environmental impact statement, no feasibility study, no prototype, and no demonstration project to show how this can be done, let alone any detailed cost analysis to show how much it will cost.
Illustrating The Absurdity Of New York’s Energy Transition
No Knife But A Bloodletting Nevertheless.
15 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of media and culture, industrial organisation, managerial economics, market efficiency, organisational economics, personnel economics, politics - New Zealand, privatisation, Public Choice, public economics, survivor principle Tags: media bias
Hosking went after Radio New Zealand this morning and it was bad.The Mike Hosking Breakfast, 0600 till 0900 has three producer/support staff, Radio NZ Morning report has 16 production staff to cover the same five day time slot, yet the state run highly subsidised show falls way behind in ratings.. That 16 figure for production […]
No Knife But A Bloodletting Nevertheless.
A UK lawyer rebuts many misconceptions about Israel
15 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in defence economics, International law, laws of war, war and peace Tags: free speech, Gaza Strip, Israel, Middle-East politics, political correctness, regressive left, war against terror
Natasha Hausdorff is a British barrister (lawyer) specializing in international law, and also the legal director of the UK Lawyers for Israel. She’s also smart as hell, eloquent, and never loses her cool. I see her as the female equivalent of Douglas Murray: what a team they’d make in a debate over the war in […]
A UK lawyer rebuts many misconceptions about Israel
Fun’s Over: America’s ‘Green’ Investors Ditch Climate Action Zealotry
15 Apr 2024 1 Comment
in energy economics, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, financial economics, global warming, politics - USA Tags: climate alarmism
The climate cult thought the serious money was all in, forever. Til now, weather zealots could call on Wall Street to bankroll the climate industrial complex; there was no end to the amount of money available for harebrained, uneconomic wind and solar projects; no end to the unhinged war on hydrocarbons. These days, not so […]
Fun’s Over: America’s ‘Green’ Investors Ditch Climate Action Zealotry
EU To Spend Trillions On Net Zero Grid Expansion
15 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: European Union
By Paul Homewood h/t Dennis Ambler The EU is going to plough on with Net Zero insanity, regardless of the cost: The EU is looking to front-load massive anticipatory investments into its energy infrastructure, shifting risk from industry to consumers and risking a landscape with unneeded or under-used pylons. Amid its green transition, […]
EU To Spend Trillions On Net Zero Grid Expansion
Germany Electric Car Sales Plummet 30% As Country Floats Idea Of Weekend Driving Ban!
14 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, transport economics, urban economics Tags: climate alarmism, Germany
The massive sales drop is bad news for the current German socialist-green government, which aims to have 15 million vehicles on the road by 2030. Currently there are just 1.4 million!
Germany Electric Car Sales Plummet 30% As Country Floats Idea Of Weekend Driving Ban!
Diverse MBA teams perform worse
14 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, economics of education, entrepreneurship, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: gender wage gap, sex discrimination
From “Diversity and Performance in Entrepreneurial Teams” (SSRN): Among the randomly-assigned teams [of MBA students], greater diversity along the intersection of gender and race/ethnicity significantly reduced performance. However, the negative effect of this diversity is alleviated … [when teams can choose their teammates]…teams with more female members perform substantially better when their faculty section leader was also…
Diverse MBA teams perform worse
UCLA goes bonkers, hires unhinged “activist in residence” to give a lecture mandatory for all entering med-school students, who are forced to pray for “mama Earth” and chant pro-Palestinian slogans
14 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of education, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - USA Tags: free speech, political correctness, regressive left
The last time I posted something about an article by Georgetown University Law Professor Jonathan Turley, I believe someone beefed because Turley was a conservative, implying that his articles couldn’t be trusted. Well, I deplore the attitude that you can judge the veracity of claims using the ideology, race, or gender of someone who reports […]
UCLA goes bonkers, hires unhinged “activist in residence” to give a lecture mandatory for all entering med-school students, who are forced to pray for “mama Earth” and chant pro-Palestinian slogans
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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