Peter Dunne writes – In 2016 New Zealand instituted comprehensive new health and safety laws for workplaces and other areas of activity. The expectation was that the new regime the legislation introduced would dramatically improve the culture and practice around safety in the workplace, reduce the numbers of accidents and save lives. However, the most […]
Health and Safety laws
Health and Safety laws
23 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economics of regulation, health and safety, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, politics - New Zealand
Simple Truth vs. Cheap Green Energy Lie
23 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: solar power, wind power
Francis Menton asserts that the biggest disinformation (Lie) in public discourse is claiming that the cheapest source of energy comes from renewables, wind and solar power. He provides a number of brazen media examples in his blog post What Is The Most Pernicious Example Of “Misinformation” Currently Circulating? Why do I say that the assertion […]
Simple Truth vs. Cheap Green Energy Lie
The original patent from 1891 for a toilet paper roll shows the correct rolling direction, in case you ever doubted.
22 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
The Disillusionment of Lawrence of Arabia I THE GREAT WAR Week 152
22 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
Destroy The Fried Liver Attack In 7 Moves [Dirty TRAPS Included]
22 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in chess
Chess Openings: Learn to Play the French Defense Against the Exchange Va…
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Teachers Union Issues List Of Climate Demands As Students Struggle To Read At Grade Level
22 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of education, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate activists
The CTU will push the city to include initiatives like electric school buses, green jobs training programs for students and reducing emissions from buildings with solar panels and other retrofits, among other initiatives,
Teachers Union Issues List Of Climate Demands As Students Struggle To Read At Grade Level
Who Really Won The Battle of the Somme? (WW1 Documentary)
22 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
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in labour economics, labour supply, population economics Tags: ageing society, Japan
Reminder: Historical Natural Warming Rates Dwarf Modern Climate Change
21 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in economic history, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: Greenland
Greenland has not warmed (net) in the last 90 years. From 80,000 to 20,000 years ago Greenland warmed by 10-15 Kelvin within a span of “a few decades” 24 times (Kypke and Ditlevsen 2024). These abrupt warming periods occurred without concomitant CO2 concentration changes. And, of course, without human interference. Image Source: Kypke and Ditlevsen…
Reminder: Historical Natural Warming Rates Dwarf Modern Climate Change
Murphy’s Law of Economic Policy
21 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, history of economic thought, Public Choice, public economics
Economists have the least influence on policy where they know the most and are most agreed; they have the most influence on policy where they know the least and disagree most vehemently.” I’d never heard of it before and it’s quoted in this review of a book called “Free Lunch Thinking – How Economics Ruins […]
Murphy’s Law of Economic Policy
Hardcore Thai Massage Satisfyingly CRACKS My Broken Back
21 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, health economics
JORDAN WILLIAMS: We can’t afford cancer drugs, but can afford this?
20 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in health economics, politics - New Zealand, public economics
While cancer patients wait for the Government to “find the money” to fund desperately needed modern drugs, the very money meant for health research and saving lives is being flushed down the toilet. At our weekly staff meeting this morning, the research team took me through the latest batch of grant funding decisions by the…
JORDAN WILLIAMS: We can’t afford cancer drugs, but can afford this?
Senate Passes Major Pro-Nuclear Bill, Sends To Biden’s Desk
20 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, politics - USA Tags: nuclear energy
The Senate passed a major piece of pro-nuclear energy legislation on Tuesday, sending the bill to President Joe Biden’s desk.
Senate Passes Major Pro-Nuclear Bill, Sends To Biden’s Desk
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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