This requirement, approved by the Academic Senate, is a clear example of the university’s shift from fostering critical thinking to promoting a singular ideological agenda. The post Mandatory Indoctrination: UC San Diego’s Climate Change Education Requirement first appeared on Watts Up With That?.
Mandatory Indoctrination: UC San Diego’s Climate Change Education Requirement
Mandatory Indoctrination: UC San Diego’s Climate Change Education Requirement
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in economics of education, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
Message to John Cleese: Don’t mention the War!
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in law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, movies, television, TV shows Tags: Age of Enlightenment, free speech, political correctness, regressive left
It was heaven on earth for him. Be a popular “counter culture” icon loved by conservatives and liberals alike for being hilarious, but also enjoy the benefits of a strong, stable, homogenous culture. The former Monty Python star has had some rough times in recent years with the Woke brigade cancelling some of his past […]
Message to John Cleese: Don’t mention the War!
Christian missions and HIV in Africa
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in development economics, economic history, health economics Tags: AIDS, economics of colonialism
Spreading Christianity was seen by the colonial powers as a way of civilising the native populations in Africa. Indeed, in 1857 David Livingstone wrote that “neither civilization nor Christianity can be promoted alone. In fact, they are inseparable” (see here). Among the many effects of colonisation, the spread of Christianity is seen as one of…
Christian missions and HIV in Africa
JOHN RAINE: Ministerial Spring Cleaning and the Parable of the Rowing Eight
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in applied price theory, economics of bureaucracy, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, public economics
Matthew Hooton’s recommendation that Nicola Willis cut the cost of the Public Service by 25% (NZ Herald 22nd December) reminded me of a story. Years ago, the engineering community was getting fired up about new Japanese business and manufacturing efficiency methods, and “kaizen” (continuous improvement) and “just in time” were being bandied about. At the…
JOHN RAINE: Ministerial Spring Cleaning and the Parable of the Rowing Eight
Creative destruction
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in development economics, economic history, growth miracles, international economics
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Developers Cancel Huge Offshore Wind Contract In Latest Blow to Biden’s Climate Agenda
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in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: wind power
Equinor and British Petroleum (BP), the firms working in a joint venture to construct the enormous Empire Wind 2 offshore wind farm, canceled a contract with New York state to sell power generated by the project
Developers Cancel Huge Offshore Wind Contract In Latest Blow to Biden’s Climate Agenda
The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It by Paul Collier (2007)
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in applied price theory, defence economics, development economics, economic history, growth disasters, history of economic thought, war and peace Tags: Africa
Catching up is about radically raising growth in the countries now at the bottom…This book sets out an [aid] agenda for the G8 that would be effective. (The Bottom Billion, pages 12 and 13) Sir Paul Collier, Commander of the British Empire (CBE) and Fellow of the British Academy (FBA) is a British development economist […]
The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It by Paul Collier (2007)
New Rule: From the River to the Sea | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)
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in economic history, International law, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, property rights, televison, TV shows Tags: free speech, Gaza Strip, Israel, Middle-East politics, political correctness, regressive left, war against terror
Why Britain’s economy is failing
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in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: British politics, land supply, zoning
In the past five years, the number of applications to connect to the electricity grid — many of them for solar energy generation and storage — has increased tenfold, with waits of up to 15 years. The underinvestment is restricting the flow of cheap energy from Scottish wind farms to population centers in England and adding to […]
Why Britain’s economy is failing
First fix in many years. Don’t have them in New Zealand. Favorite biscuit.
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Wrong from the start:
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in economic history, labour economics, labour supply, population economics, poverty and inequality Tags: capitalism and freedom, The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape, The Great Fact
In 1798, Thomas Malthus told the world to expect collapse – “Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio.”
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