No Peace For The Wicked I THE GREAT WAR Week 129
13 Jan 2024 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
Colin Wright on sex and its distortion by the American Psychiatric Association
13 Jan 2024 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender Tags: Age of Enlightenment, free speech, political correctness, regressive left, sex discrimination
Reader Bryan sent me a link to the tweets by Colin Wright below (the first is most important) which is about the American Psychiatric Association’s (APA’s) new book on Gender Affirming Psychiatric Care. (For some reason I can’t download it.) The APA is the premier association of American psychiatrists, so this will carry a lot […]
Colin Wright on sex and its distortion by the American Psychiatric Association
Even More Evidence Against Minimum Wage Laws
13 Jan 2024 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of regulation, labour economics, labour supply Tags: minimum wage
As explained by public intellectuals such as Milton Friedman, Johan Norberg, John Stossel, and Orphe Divougny, the argument against minimum wage requirements is very simple. If politicians dictate that people can’t be employed unless they receive, say, $15 per hour, then workers who are worth less than than amount (because of low skills, no experience, […]
Even More Evidence Against Minimum Wage Laws
Bloomberg: “Don’t be Fooled, Snow is Becoming a Thing of the Past”
13 Jan 2024 Leave a comment
in economic history, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
Ignore your lying eyes, what you are seeing is frozen heaps of global warming?
Bloomberg: “Don’t be Fooled, Snow is Becoming a Thing of the Past”
Lord Goldsmith given driving ban for four speeding offences – after backing 20mph limit
12 Jan 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, environmental economics, law and economics, transport economics, urban economics Tags: British politics
By Paul Homewood h/t Ian Magness Some things you could not make up! https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/01/11/zac-goldsmith-banned-driving-caught-speeding/
Lord Goldsmith given driving ban for four speeding offences – after backing 20mph limit
David Friedman: What is Anarcho-Capitalism? | Robinson’s Podcast #160
12 Jan 2024 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, David Friedman, development economics, economics of climate change, economics of crime, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, Marxist economics, property rights, Public Choice, Rawls and Nozick
Not All Tax Cuts Are Created Equal
12 Jan 2024 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, Austrian economics, public economics Tags: taxation and investment
There are three reasons to be a knee-jerk supporter of tax cuts (or to be a knee-jerk opponent of tax increases). The morality-driven libertarian argument that people should be able to keep the income they earn. The starve-the-beast argument that less revenue at some point may translate into less spending. The economic argument that lower […]
Not All Tax Cuts Are Created Equal
Economists Love Fables And Parables (Or, The Essence Of Economic Analysis)
12 Jan 2024 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, history of economic thought
Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman wrote the following in Slate magazine back in the 1990s:“Economic theory is not a collection of dictums laid down by pompous authority figures. Mainly, it is a menagerie of thought experiments–parables, if you like–that are intended to capture the logic of economic processes in a simplified way. In the…
Economists Love Fables And Parables (Or, The Essence Of Economic Analysis)
Oh Canada: Police Warn that Posting Images of Thieves May Violate Their Privacy Rights
12 Jan 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, property rights
While Canada eviscerates the right to free speech and association, some are apparently holding firm on the privacy rights of accused felons to warn homeowners not to post videos of thefts.
Oh Canada: Police Warn that Posting Images of Thieves May Violate Their Privacy Rights
The BBC apologizes for making false and defamatory claims about the IDF executing Palestinian civilians
12 Jan 2024 Leave a comment
I believe I mentioned this faux pas by the BBC earlier today, but here are the hard, cold facts. On Christmas Eve, BBC radio repeated, six times, a completely false report that Israeli troops had executed 137 Palestinian civilians and buried them in unmarked graves. This of course came from a notice by the ever-reliable…
The BBC apologizes for making false and defamatory claims about the IDF executing Palestinian civilians
How Inertial Navigation Changed Air, Sea & Space Travel for Ever?
12 Jan 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture
If Oppenheimer Didn’t Invent the Atomic Bomb, Who Did?
11 Jan 2024 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: atomic bombs
Zwolinski on the UBI
11 Jan 2024 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, history of economic thought, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, Public Choice, public economics, welfare reform Tags: negative income tax, universal basic income
Philosopher Matt Zwolinski, co-author of Universal Basic Income: What Everyone Needs to Know, was a core member of the old Bleeding Heart Libertarians blog, which shut down in 2020. Now’s he’s singledly-handed revived the BHL brand on his new Bleeding Heart Libertarian substack. Matt recently published a critique of my response to Chris Freiman on…
Zwolinski on the UBI
Still bugger all
11 Jan 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: renewable energy
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