Karl du Fresne writes – Rarely has the media’s all-pervasive pro-Left bias been demonstrated more emphatically than in the outpouring of empathy for Golriz Ghahraman. In the past 24 hours, the tone of media commentary on the scandal surrounding the former Green MP has shifted with striking uniformity. The focus has conveniently been diverted from […]
KARL DU FRESNE: The striking outpouring of media empathy for Golriz Ghahraman
KARL DU FRESNE: The striking outpouring of media empathy for Golriz Ghahraman
19 Jan 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - New Zealand
Wind turbines kill too many birds and bats. How can we make them safer?
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in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
By Paul Homewood h/t Dennis Ambler . Even the greeniacs are starting to understand the damage to wildlife from wind turbines: As wind power grows around the world, so does the threat turbines pose to wildlife. From simple fixes to high-tech solutions, researchers are finding ways to reduce the toll.
Wind turbines kill too many birds and bats. How can we make them safer?
Avoiding scrutiny
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in business cycles, economics of bureaucracy, macroeconomics, monetary economics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice Tags: monetary policy
Regular readers will recall that I have, intermittently, been on the trail of the approach taken to the selection (and rejection) of external MPC members when the current crop were first appointed in 2019. I have been pursuing the matter since a highly credible person who was interested in being considered for appointment told me that […]
Avoiding scrutiny
Shipwrecked: America’s Offshore Wind Industry Being Crushed By Rising Construction Costs
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in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, labour economics, unions Tags: wind power
2023 was the year when the offshore wind industry’s grand implosion began. Major investors bailed out as the insane cost of attempting to (occasionally) generate electricity with no commercial value in hostile marine environments began to bite. Dozens of projects have been scrapped and others are now highly doubtful. And for those wind power outfits […]
Shipwrecked: America’s Offshore Wind Industry Being Crushed By Rising Construction Costs
No Such Thing as a Low-Energy Rich Country
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in development economics, economic history, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
By Paul Homewood Read Trevor Stark’s analysis here.
No Such Thing as a Low-Energy Rich Country
Asia 1227
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Unfettered: Fishback 25 Years Later
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in applied price theory, discrimination, economic history, economics of information, economics of regulation, health and safety, history of economic thought, human capital, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, liberalism, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, minimum wage, occupational choice, occupational regulation, poverty and inequality, unemployment, unions
A quarter century ago, economist Price Fishback published “Operations of ‘Unfettered’ Labor Markets: Exit and Voice in American Labor Markets at the Turn of the Century” in the prestigious Journal of Economic Literature. Fishback’s article is packed with insight… and understatement. But let’s back up. Virtually every standard history textbook describes U.S. labor markets before…
Unfettered: Fishback 25 Years Later
A congestion theory of unemployment fluctuations
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in business cycles, econometerics, economic history, history of economic thought, job search and matching, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, monetary economics, unemployment
Yusuf Mercan, Benjamin Schoefer, and Petr Sedláček, newly published in American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics. I best liked this excerpt from p.2, noting that “DMP” refers to the Nobel-winning Diamond-Mortensen-Pissarides search model of unemployment: This congestion mechanism improves the business cycle performance of the DMP model considerably. It raises the volatility of labor market tightness tenfold, […]
A congestion theory of unemployment fluctuations
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Deirdre McCloskey: What Is Classical Liberalism? | Robinson’s Podcast #145
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in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, economic history, economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, history of economic thought, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, Marxist economics, political change, Public Choice, public economics
The population bomb
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in economic history, labour economics, labour supply, population economics Tags: ageing population
Robert Craig: The constitutional implications of legislating to exonerate the Post Office sub-postmasters
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in economics of crime, law and economics Tags: British politics, constitutional law
Some commentators have claimed that the decision to expedite the process of formally exonerating the sub-postmasters potentially runs afoul of certain core constitutional principles, in particular the separation of powers. It has also been claimed that the ‘crown does not have a prerogative of justice but only a prerogative of mercy’. This blog considers and challenges those claims. Technically, […]
Robert Craig: The constitutional implications of legislating to exonerate the Post Office sub-postmasters
Speaking of ice ages
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in economic history, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: Arctic ice caps, climate alarmism
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Wars lead to new borders
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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