Celebrating humanity's flourishing through the spread of capitalism and the rule of law
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War II
It’s amazing to think that the allies possibly won the war by a dead homeless man. Glyndwr Michael (4 January 1909 – 24 January 1943) was a semi-literate homeless man whose body was used in Operation Mincemeat, the successful World War II deception plan that lured German forces to Greece prior to the Allied invasion […]
The bizarre case of Glyndwr Michael- The WWII Hero, who never was.
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On Monday, Mariameno Kapa-Kingi announced publicly she was leaving Te Pāti Māori to form the Te Tai Tokerau Party. The announcement was framed in the language of mana motuhake, regional self-determination, and wahine leadership. It was, she said, the approach she and her team decided was best for them.
The Māori political class is failing its people
14 May 2026 Leave a comment
Rawiri Waititi is absolutely correct when he says there will be no one-term government without Te Pati Māori. At no point since the last election have Labour and the Green Party been polling strongly enough to contemplate forming a government without the inclusion of Te Pati Māori. And even if Te Pati Māori were to […]
Why it is unlikely Waititi’s thinking about one-term government and the Maori Party will be realised
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in economics of education, economics of media and culture, politics - USA
G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century by Beverly Gage 864 pages Viking (Penguin Random House) Published: Nov 2022 One of 2022’s most notable new biographies is Beverly Gage’s long-awaited “G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century.” Gage is a professor of American history at Yale University […]
Review of “G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century” by Beverly Gage
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War II
In 1972 English writer Frederick Forsyth published a novel, THE ODESSA FILE which encompassed the adventures of a young German reporter attempting to discover the location of a former SS concentration-camp commander, Austrian Nazi SS-Obersturmfuhrer and Commandant of the Riga Ghetto during 1943, Eduard Roschmann who earned the nickname the “Butcher of Riga.” In the novel, the German freelance […]
REVENGE OF ODESSA by Frederick Forsyth and Tony Kent
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in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, liberalism Tags: The Great Enrichment
An excerpt from the conclusion of *Unbeatable*
A Friendly Appeal to the Unconvinced
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in applied price theory, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, politics - New Zealand, urban economics Tags: competition law, land supply, zoning
The Spinoff reports: Both Labour and National governments have considered the idea of breaking up the big two but ultimately decided against it. A 2023 analysis by MBIE suggested forcibly breaking up the supermarkets could cost as much as $3.8 billion over 20 years, mostly due to the loss of economies of scale. It could make wholesale and distribution…
A good idea for supermarket competition
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in politics - USA, television, TV shows
This week Bill Maher’s comedy-and-news bit is about the “Assassination Generation,” referring to all the young men who kill or commit arson for ideological reasons. As we know, a big proportion of young people (about 40%) think that political violence is sometimes warranted. As you might expect, Maher deplores this behavior and the ideas behind…
Bill Maher’s newest rule: young people and political violence
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in history of economic thought, liberalism, libertarianism, Murray Rothbard Tags: The Holocaust
Libertarians were important actors in American Holocaust denial in the decades following World War II.
Libertarians and Holocaust Denial
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in economics of education, economics of media and culture
King: A Life by Jonathan Eig 688 pages Farrar, Straus and Giroux Published: May 2023 Jonathan Eig’s “King: A Life” was published early last year to nearly instant acclaim and was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Biography earlier this year. Eig is a journalist and author previously best-known for his biographies “Luckiest Man: The Life […]
Review of “King: A Life” by Jonathan Eig
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in constitutional political economy Tags: British constitutional law, British politics
On 18 March 2026 the House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill became the House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Act 2026. Following one final vote on the evening of the 10th of March 2026 in the House of Lords , and after having offered additional life peer appointments to Conservative peers, the Labour government has succeeded […]
Simon Karsunke: What comes next? The way forward on UK House of Lords reform
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in applied price theory, economic history, entrepreneurship, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, survivor principle Tags: industry policy
Tweet… is from page 8 of Scott Lincicome’s and Huan Zhu’s superb September 2021 paper, “Questioning Industrial Policy: Why Government Manufacturing Plans Are Ineffective and Unnecessary”: A core part of industrial policy’s knowledge problem is timing: because markets and personal preferences are constantly evolving, the facts (products, investments, supply and demand, etc.) on which an…
Bonus Quotation of the Day…
12 May 2026 Leave a comment
Almost half of the stories on Stuff’s politics page, are quoting Helen Clark. Doesn’t this tell you everything you need to know.
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in economics of bureaucracy, economics of climate change, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice
For all the talk of finally relitigating the underlying climate science, the EPA’s final rule does almost none of that. It does not argue that greenhouse gases fail to qualify as pollutants. It does not litigate model sensitivities, the surface temperature record, attribution methodology, or any of the empirical questions that WUWT contributors and others…
Three Months In: EPA’s Endangerment Finding Repeal Has Quietly Become a Legal Fight, not a Scientific One
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