The nature of science
02 Feb 2023 Leave a comment
in economics of education Tags: conjecture and refutation, philosophy of science
Szasz Podcast
02 Feb 2023 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: economics of mental illness
I just did a new podcast with Aaron Olson on the late great Thomas Szasz. Aaron is well-versed in my notorious article, “The Economics of Szasz: Preferences, Constraints, and Mental Illness… 166 more words
Szasz Podcast
Alec Baldwin’s Involuntary Manslaughter Charges: A Legal Analysis | @WSJ
01 Feb 2023 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, movies
SMR Gold Rush: Smart Money Backing Small Modular Nuclear Reactors
01 Feb 2023 Leave a comment
Europe’s energy crisis is all down to its delusional reliance upon intermittent wind and solar, which is why the smart money is backing nuclear power, at any scale, including Small Modular Reactors.
The list of operators investing in SMR technology is growing at such a rate that could be described as an investor gold rush.
In the US, NuScale, based in Oregon, has cleared all of the regulatory hurdles and is ready to deliver 924MW reactors to those with the wit and temerity to acquire them (more on NuScale below).
Britain’s Rolls-Royce is well ahead of the curve, with a 470MW unit almost ready to roll.
Hot on the heels of NuScale and Rolls-Royce, UK Atomics – a subsidiary of Denmark’s Copenhagen Atomics, GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy, Holtec International, BWX Technologies are on the process of designing, developing and improving on SMR technology.
There is little new about SMRs –…
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Massive Cover-up Exposed: 285 Papers From 1960s-’80s Reveal Robust Global Cooling Scientific ‘Consensus’
01 Feb 2023 Leave a comment
Palestine, Poverty, and Neoliberalism
01 Feb 2023 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, defence economics, development economics, discrimination, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, growth disasters, growth miracles, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, war and peace Tags: Middle-East politics
I came to know Luigi Achilli through his work on human smuggling, but he also spent a year living in a Palestinian refugee camp. What did he learn there? 644 more words
Palestine, Poverty, and Neoliberalism
2050: The never-ending nightmare of Net Zero
31 Jan 2023 Leave a comment
Classifying this as humour may not be appropriate, but we live in hope.
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IT IS the year 2050 and Britain, relentlessly driven by the governing Labour-Green coalition, has achieved Net Zero, imagines David Wright @ TCW (The Conservative Woman).
The nation is quite unrecognisable from the comfortable, well-fed country it was in the early part of the 21st century.
Massive wind turbines cover the landscape; the old ones built 25 years ago now knocked down and lying next to the new ones because it was uneconomic to remove them.
The whole country is covered in a dense spider’s web of power lines from the multitude of wind and solar farms miles from where the power is needed.
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Was He A Usurper? King Edward IV of England.Part VII.
31 Jan 2023 Leave a comment
Birth and ancestry
The future King Edward IV was born on April 28, 1442 at Rouen in Normandy, eldest surviving son of Richard, 3rd Duke of York, and Cecily Neville. Until his father’s death, he was known as the Earl of March. In previous entries I’ve outlined Edward’s descent several ways from King Edward III. However, his mother was also a direct descendant of King Edward III.
Cecily Neville was the youngest of the 22 children of Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland, in this case born to his second wife Joan Beaufort, Countess of Westmorland. Her paternal grandparents were John Neville, 3rd Baron Neville de Raby, and Maud Percy, daughter of Henry de Percy, 2nd Baron Percy.
Her maternal grandparents were John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster, and his third wife Katherine Swynford. John of Gaunt was the third surviving son of King Edward III of England and…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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