Like most European countries, Switzerland uses proportional representation (PR) to choose members of the National Council, the lower house of the country’s federal legislature. However, the Swiss system has distinctive characteristics which require a special procedure to determine the nationwide party percentage shares, and a minor technical problem during the federal election held last Sunday, […]
2023 Swiss election: minor technical problem leads to major embarrassment
2023 Swiss election: minor technical problem leads to major embarrassment
30 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
Maverick: A Biography of Thomas Sowell by Jason Riley Book Review
30 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, development economics, discrimination, economic history, economics of education, gender, history of economic thought, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Thomas Sowell, urban economics
I was skeptical of learning about Sowell because he leans conservative, and I was curious to learn about Sowell because he leans conservative. The last few years I’ve grown sympathetic to the political left because I got tired of conservatives seeming hatred for all things “left.” After reading this book I think a lot of […]
Maverick: A Biography of Thomas Sowell by Jason Riley Book Review
Florida Moves to Ban Pro-Palestinian Student Group from Campuses
30 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, war and peace Tags: free speech, Middle-East politics, war against terror
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s administration has ordered state universities to ban a pro-Palestinian student organization, Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP). The state has denounced SJP as supporting a “terrorist organization” after the massacre of Israelis by Hamas. I have previously written how Hamas is morally and legally a terrorist organization. However, this move would, […]
Florida Moves to Ban Pro-Palestinian Student Group from Campuses
University of California Professor Threatens Pro-Israel Journalists and Their Families
29 Oct 2023 1 Comment
in economics of education, liberalism, Marxist economics Tags: free speech, political correctness, regressive left
The University of California at Davis is embroiled in a controversy involving one of its faculty threatening “zionist journalists” in a violent tirade on X. UC Davis Professor (and undergraduate adviser) Jemma Decristo posted the screed on October 10th referencing the homes and family of those who support Israel as possible targets. The university is […]
University of California Professor Threatens Pro-Israel Journalists and Their Families
Quotation of the Day…
29 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in economic history, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, survivor principle
Tweet… is from page 163 of the 1983 Third Edition of Douglass C. North’s, Terry L. Anderson’s, and Peter J. Hill’s Growth & Welfare in the American Past: A New Economic History: In both England and the United States, wood was one of the more important raw materials in the nineteenth century, providing a major…
Quotation of the Day…
Book Review: Race and Culture by Thomas Sowell
29 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, development economics, discrimination, economic history, gender, growth disasters, growth miracles, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, Marxist economics, minimum wage, occupational choice, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, Thomas Sowell
Thomas Sowell is a skilled writer with a powerful ability to combine historical, social science and free-market perspectives. He cuts through the noise and doesn’t mince his words on the sensitive topics of race and culture. In Race and Culture Sowell argues against two common social science doctrines: 1) that all races are equal and […]
Book Review: Race and Culture by Thomas Sowell
Bowman Video Contradicts His Account to Congress, the Court, and the Public
28 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) has pleaded guilty to a single misdemeanor after he was caught on videotape pulling a fire alarm in the middle of a key vote to avoid a government shutdown. The misdemeanor was the charge that I discussed when this first arose. However, the release of the videotape raises another issue: whether […]
Bowman Video Contradicts His Account to Congress, the Court, and the Public
To what extent are temperature levels changing due to greenhouse gas emissions?
28 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in econometerics, economic history, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmism
By Paul Homewood A new Norwegian paper has found that the effects of man-made CO2 emissions are not strong enough to explain global warming in the last 200n years, implying that natural factors must play a large role: https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/To-what-extent-are-temperature-levels-changing-due-to-greenhouse-gas-emissions.pdf
To what extent are temperature levels changing due to greenhouse gas emissions?
Reaping The Whirlwind.
28 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in defence economics, laws of war, war and peace Tags: Gaza Strip, Israel, war against terror, World War II
Mild-Mannered Avenger: “The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw, and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naïve theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to…
Reaping The Whirlwind.
The most advanced bomber of WW2 | B-29 Superfortress
28 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War II
The most violent MP ever elected to the House of Commons? John Patrick Somers (1800-1862)
28 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
John Patrick Somers (1800-1862), or ‘Pat Somers’ as he was generally known, is a strong contender for the most violent MP to have ever sat in the House of Commons. In this week’s blog our senior research fellow, Dr Martin Spychal, discusses one of the most extraordinary characters that we’ve uncovered during our research for […]
The most violent MP ever elected to the House of Commons? John Patrick Somers (1800-1862)
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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