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in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: 2024 presidential election, free speech, political correctness, regressive left
Below is my column in USA Today on why the opponents of President Joe Biden should make free speech the focus of this election. With the Supreme Court taking an off ramp in Murthy v. Missouri on Internet censorship, the free speech community is left, for now, with the political process to protect free speech. […]
Want to Defeat Joe Biden? Look to the 1800 Election and Make Free Speech the Key Issue in 2024
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in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: wind power
By Paul Homewood h/t Paul Kolk . BP has put all new offshore wind projects on pause as the oil company’s new chief executive seeks to focus more heavily on fossil fuels. Murray Auchincloss, who became permanent head of the business at the start of the year, has also frozen hiring in the offshore […]
BP freezes offshore wind projects to focus on fossil fuels
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in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - New Zealand
What has been the greatest source of greenhouse gas emissions in NZ these past six years? The CO2 expelled in hot air from the Greens & their travels to and from Wellington, and around the world? Has the Green Party contributed next to nothing in terms of reducing NZ’s contribution to global emissions, yet added…
Have Swarbrick’s Greens actually had zero environmental impact, and simply just thrown thousands into poverty?
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in managerial economics, organisational economics, personnel economics
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in economics of crime, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - USA Tags: Age of Enlightenment, free speech, political correctness, regressive left
Below is my column on Fox.com on my book and how our current “age of rage” may be the most dangerous for free speech, but it is not our first such period in history. Indeed, the current debate is returning this nation to the very debate that erupted at the start of our Republic. Here…
The Age of Rage: America’s Anti-Free Speech Movement Will Force Us (Again) To Choose Between Our Rights and Our Rage
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in television, TV shows
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in economics of crime, economics of information, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, law and economics, transport economics Tags: electric cars
This is a hilarious X (formerly Twitter) thread on a presentation about “messaging over climate”. Worst messages tested: electric cars, Green New Deal, frontline communities, ‘Big Oil lied’, climate pollution Talking about electric cars especially deadly for Democrats. Women in particular frightened of battery running out. (Interesting gendered spin on range anxiety I hadn’t thought […]
Climate “Communicators” Discover the Best Way to Persuade Voters is to Lie to Them
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in development economics, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, growth disasters Tags: climate activists, cranks
Degrowth’s prophets offer little more than hand-waving in response to the most elementary questions about their prescription.
Wash Post Editorial Board Denounces ‘De-Growth Communism’ – ‘Ending Growth Won’t Save the Planet’
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in applied price theory, entrepreneurship, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, law and economics, Ronald Coase Tags: competition law
Nobel Laureate Ronald Coase once quipped that he left antitrust because “When prices go up, its monopolization, when prices fall it’s predation, and when they stay the same it’s collusion.” As if to illustrate this idea, the FTC’s Chair is reversing herself to bring a case against Amazon. On one hand, booksellers argue that Amazon…
When life imitates comedy: FTC’s Amazon Flip Flop
Celebrating humanity's flourishing through the spread of capitalism and the rule of law
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