Full Metal Jacket: How Monster Movies and an On-Set Feud Shaped Pvt. Pyle’s Madness
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BDS Movement Debate | Oxford Union
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in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, defence economics, International law, law and economics, laws of war, property rights, war and peace Tags: Gaza Strip, Israel, war against terror, West Bank
How does Prescott react to the criticism that there is a lack of available supporting evidence of strong intertemporal labour substitution effects?
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Bryan Caplan – Poverty: Who Is To Blame
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in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, development economics, economic history, economics of education, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, poverty and inequality, Public Choice Tags: child poverty, family poverty, The Great Enrichment
The new classical monetary-surprise style of models developed in the 1970sby Lucas, Sargent, Wallace and others were very influential. When did Prescott first begin to lose faith in that particular approach?
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Cheap Energy Deficit: Climate Industrial Complex Conspires to Impoverish World’s Poorest
17 Jan 2022 1 Comment
Western Nations are determined to prevent the World’s poorest from having cheap and reliable energy, a fact laid plain at the Glasgow gabfest, where the Climate Industrial Complex did its best to ensure that the likes of India will never have any hope of dragging themselves out of agrarian misery and grinding poverty.
The wind and solar obsessed in the first world are quite prepared to ensure that it stays that way. With economic development agencies peddling ridiculously expensive solar panels – seen as ‘fake electricity’ by those lumbered with it – and forcing tinpot governments to sign up to costly and pointless wind and/or solar power schemes, the ratio of haves to have-nots is likely to stay that way for the foreseeable future.
More than a billion humans struggle through daily life without access to power at all, and two billion more are limited to a meagre trickle…
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Daniella Lock and Tanzil Chowdhury: Expansions of Executive Power and Weakening of Democratic Safeguards in 2021
17 Jan 2022 1 Comment
The United Kingdom Constitution Monitoring Group published itsfirst annual reportin 2021. It described the UK Government as ‘set upon legislating over a range of substantial matters with a constitutional dimension’, with its overall programme being ‘notable for its scale, the speed with which it is being implemented’ and this being ‘far from a model of good practice in constitutional change’ (p5).
A significant aspect of the ‘constitutional dimension’ of such changes is that they expand executive power in a number of different ways. This post presents a brief summary of key expansions of executive power via legislation introduced to or passed in the Westminster Parliament in 2021. It then assesses the substance of these expansions, arguing that two key themes emerge. First, that there is an increase in the executive’s capacity to use coercive force, and, second, there is a reduction in the accountability of the executive to…
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Land supply is everything to housing affordability
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in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, law and economics, libertarianism, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, property rights, public economics, urban economics Tags: housing affordability, land supply, zoning
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