The WW2 Bomber designed to replace the Flying Fortress
13 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War II
WW2 Jet Engine Development – WW2 Special Documentary
13 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War II
Why Switzerland Has 374,142 Bunkers (and likely more)
13 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in defence economics Tags: Switzerland
Anti-Israel Statements After the Massacre Trigger Free Speech Fights in Higher Education
12 Oct 2023 1 Comment
Universities and colleges across the country have become embroiled in a debate over free speech in the aftermath of the massacre of Israelis by Hamas terrorists this week. Various student groups have expressed support for Hamas or their cause while condemning Israel. Black Lives Matter (BLM) chapters have even shown the image below of one […]
Anti-Israel Statements After the Massacre Trigger Free Speech Fights in Higher Education
How uber-Woke colleges respond publicly to the horrific slaughter, rape, and kidnapping by Hamas
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Now that the horrors committed by Hamas in Israel are being revealed in detail, colleges and universities are issuing statements about the Israel/Palestine war. As I adhere to the University of Chicago’s Kalven Principles of institutional neutrality, I don’t think any such statements should take sides, even though I think that there’s a clear right-and-wrong […]
How uber-Woke colleges respond publicly to the horrific slaughter, rape, and kidnapping by Hamas
Ronald Coase part 2: Markets Don’t Fail, They Fail to Exist
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in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, economics of regulation, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, law and economics, property rights, Ronald Coase, Ronald Coase, theory of the firm
How to Make *Defending the Undefendable* Defensible
12 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, history of economic thought
When the truth is ugly, people lie. Psychologists call this “Social Desirability Bias.” Human beings exaggerate their patriotism and piety, their altruism and loyalty, their intelligence and their tolerance. Social Desirability Bias (SDB) is embedded in language itself: When someone asks, “Would you like to come to my party?,” you refuse with “Sorry, I can’t”…
How to Make *Defending the Undefendable* Defensible
Harvard weasels on the Israel/Palestine conflict; many of its scholars push back
12 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
At this link you’ll find two letters from Harvard administrators about the war. The first, from October 9, is signed by virtually all Harvard administrators and is what the tweet by Pinker below, with the linked letter, is aimed at. Harvard faculty have taken severe issue with what the Harvard administrators said. The second statement, […]
Harvard weasels on the Israel/Palestine conflict; many of its scholars push back
The New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme Explained | Taxpayers’ Union
12 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
Reminder of the Ongoing Opioid Epidemic
12 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
The Centers for Disease Control reports that 645,000 Americans died from opioid overdoses from 1999 -2021. As the CDC points out, the problem has hit in three waves: a rise in prescription opioid overdose deaths starting in the late 1990s; a rise heroin overdose deaths starting in 2010; and what appears to be an ongoing…
Reminder of the Ongoing Opioid Epidemic
Why was Texas divided after it joined the USA?
12 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in economic history, International law, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: maps, Texas
More from Thomas Sowell on Social-Justice Fallacies
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More from Thomas Sowell on Social-Justice Fallacies
Nobel Prize for Claudia Goldin
11 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
I was very excited to read that Claudia Goldin (Harvard University) was awarded the 2023 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (aka the Nobel Prize in Economics) on Monday, “for having advanced our understanding of women’s labour market outcomes”. There are several reasons I was excited. First, it is welcome…
Nobel Prize for Claudia Goldin
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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