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Many nations face a slow-motion fiscal crisis because of demographics. To be more specific, politicians last century created welfare states and social-insurance systems that take money from workers in order to provide pensions and health care to old people. Those decisions were misguided (compared to market-based approaches), but the math sort of worked. After all, […]
Demographic Doom and the Welfare State
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Despite the Act of Settlement of 1701, which placed the succession to the throne on Princess-Electress Sofie of Hanover, there were those in England and France who whished that Prince James would succeed Queen Anne if he would convert to the Protestant faith. Between August and September 1710, Queen Anne appointed a new Tory administration […]
September 16, 1701: Prince James, the Prince of Wales claims the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland. Part II.
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in development economics, economics of media and culture, growth miracles
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in economic history, Marxist economics Tags: China
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While there will not be another quarterly release of benefit numbers prior to the election, limited weekly reporting continues and is showing an alarming trend. Because there is a seasonal component to benefit number fluctuations it is crucial to compare like with like. In the ten week period to September 15, 2023 the number of…
LINDSAY MITCHELL: Alarming trend in benefit numbers
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In torts, we discuss the “no duty to rescue” doctrine in torts. Under the common law, you are not legally required to assist a person in peril if you had no responsibility for their injury. A recent incident in the Grand Canyon National Park raised some of the underlying issues that we debate in our […]
Backpackers Abandon Seriously Injured Friend in Grand Canyon After Calling Sheriff
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
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Published earlier this year, Richard Norton Smith’s long-anticipated biography of Gerald Ford is a valuable addition to the small collection of serious biographies of the 38th president. Smith is a biographer and historian who has also served as director of the presidential libraries for presidents Hoover, Eisenhower, Reagan and Ford. With 710 pages of text […]
Review of “An Ordinary Man: The Surprising Life and Historic Presidency of Gerald R. Ford” by Richard Norton Smith
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Crony capitalism is mostly done undercover; only rarely does its insidious work bubble to be the surface. The wind industry isn’t the only business where cash for favours is the order of the day. But the wind industry is alone in its moralising, ‘shut up, we’re saving the world’ mantra. The narrative upon which it […]
Wind Industry’s Rotten Tale: A Story of Bribes and Underhand Dealings
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If you want to see what the government of New Zealand is up to with respect to science education, you can’t do better than listening to this video/slideshow by two exponents of the “we-need-two-knowledge-systems” view. I’ve gotten a lot of scary stuff from Kiwi educators in the last couple of weeks, but this one site…
A good summary of the mess that is science education in New Zealand
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If you want to see what the government of New Zealand is up to with respect to science education, you can’t do better than listening to this video/slideshow by two exponents of the “we-need-two-knowledge-systems” view. I’ve gotten a lot of scary stuff from Kiwi educators in the last couple of weeks, but this one site…
A good summary of the mess that is science education in New Zealand
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in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: celebrity technologies, wind power
The rent-seekers that profit from the great wind and solar scam are always begging for more: more subsidies, tougher mandates and even greater renewable energy targets. Back in 1983, the American Wind Industry Association claimed that solar and wind would be “competitive and self-supporting on a national level by the end of the decade if […]
America’s Offshore Wind Industry Covering Up True Cost of Taxpayer Funded Subsidies
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