Stephen Fry Passionately Argues the Catholic Church is NOT a Force for G…
24 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
New Rule: Don’t Go to College | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)
24 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in television, TV shows
The failure(s) of the New York Times
23 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
I’m afraid I’ll be posting more about the war today—but from various angles. The angle here is the failure of the New York Times in reporting the war, and especially the explosion at Al-Ahli Hospital. The Times, relying entirely on information from Hamas and its agencies, published an initial headline (see here and here), “Israel […]
The failure(s) of the New York Times
Britain ‘will need gas to avoid blackouts for decades’
23 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
The story here refers to Britain’s ‘gas addiction’, but a renewables addiction will be far more problematic. At present gas power stations are being made ever more uneconomic by government net zero policies, but low wind days and hours are a given. Energy intensive carbon capture plans will only make matters worse. – – – […]
Britain ‘will need gas to avoid blackouts for decades’
Different Law Systems David D Friedman
23 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economics of crime, law and economics, property rights
October 20, 1740: The War of the Austrian Succession
22 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
The War of the Austrian Succession was a European conflict fought between 1740 and 1748, primarily in Central Europe. Its pretext was the right of Archduchess Maria Theresa to succeed her father, Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI, as ruler of the Habsburg Monarchy. The Habsburg Monarchy, was a collection of states, or a personal union […]
October 20, 1740: The War of the Austrian Succession
Suicidal Tendencies: Wind & Solar Obsession Destroys Australia’s Economic Future
22 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
A little over 20 years ago, Australia plugged in to the wind and solar transition with the Federal government’s Renewable Energy Target. As they say, ‘sow the wind, and reap the whirlwind’. Australia’s once reliable and affordable power supplies are long gone, replaced by heavily subsidised, intermittent and costly wind and solar, backed up by […]
Suicidal Tendencies: Wind & Solar Obsession Destroys Australia’s Economic Future
Dismantling the Royal Society Large-Scale Electricity Storage Report
22 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
By Paul Homewood A new analysis by David Turvey dismantles the recent Royal Society report on electricity storage: Summary The Royal Society (RS) has recently released its Large-Scale Electricity Storage report that says we can provide the electricity we need using wind and solar power supported by large-scale hydrogen storage. The report […]
Dismantling the Royal Society Large-Scale Electricity Storage Report
French Plans For Glory At Verdun – Romania Stops The Germans I THE GREAT…
21 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
Bhattacharya on Covid censorship
21 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: economics of pandemics
A week ago Jay Bhattacharya gave a great talk at the weekly Stanford Classical Liberalism workshop. (Link in case the embed doesn’t work.) He detailed the story of government+media Covid censorship, along with the dramatic injunction in the Missouri v. Biden case. The discovery in that case alone, detailing how the administration used the threat of…
Bhattacharya on Covid censorship
New questions about the war
21 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
As Israel’s troops and tanks sit waiting at the border to invade Gaza, I’m starting to wonder if they really will invade. For when I remember that Israel’s avowed aim is to get rid of Hamas, and then think of the options Israel has (I’ve concluded that a ground invasion was the best tactic), I […]
New questions about the war
Upzoning with Strings Attached
21 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, income redistribution, Public Choice, rentseeking, urban economics Tags: offsetting behavior, unintended consequences, zoning
The subtitle of this paper is: “Evidence from Seattle’s Affordable Housing Mandate.” Here is the abstract: This paper analyzes the effects of a major municipal residential land use reform on new home construction and developer behavior. We examine Seattle’s Mandatory Housing Affordability (MHA) program, which relaxed zoning regulations while also encouraging affordable housing construction in […]
Upzoning with Strings Attached
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