‘Battery arms race’: how China has monopolised the electric vehicle industry
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French Resistance: Couple Collect €100,000 In Damages For Wind Turbine Noise Nuisance
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The grinding, thumping cacophony generated by giant industrial wind turbines delivers wholly unnecessary misery worldwide. Sleep deprivation is first among the list of adverse health effects caused by these things and the pulsing low-frequency noise they generate.
The wind industry has fought tooth and nail to avoid the consequences of the harm it dishes out, mostly with impunity.
However, increasingly its victims are fighting back and winning.
One French couple, driven mad and eventually driven out of their home by wind turbine noise have had just such a victory.
French couple win legal fight
The Guardian
Kim Willsher
8 November 2021
A French court has recognised “wind turbine syndrome” after a couple established that their health was damaged by noise from a nearby wind farm.
In what is believed to be the first judgment of its kind in France, Belgians Christel and Luc Fockaert were awarded more than €100,000 in…
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A Liberal View on Trade and Development
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This is the pre-edited text of an article that will shortly be published in World Commerce Review (https://www.worldcommercereview.com)
The liberal tradition in political thought is by no means unified. The original ideas developed in the (Scottish) Enlightenment, most importantly by David Hume and Adam Smith, have been modified extensively. This has led to different definitions and practical applications of individual freedom, the core idea of liberalism, but also of most other ideas associated with the liberal tradition.[i] Regardless this proliferation, the wide liberal support for free trade and globalization as a means to alleviate poverty and foster human development more broadly has been rather constant, although the ideal of trade free from all government interference has never been within reach. With the World Trade Organization at shambles, the increase of bilateral and regional trade treaties which often hamper free trade more than fostering it, and a general anti-liberal sentiment…
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Why Was the Fed Created?” with George Selgin — Ron Paul Fed Lecture Series, Pt 1/3
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in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, business cycles, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, great depression, industrial organisation, macroeconomics, monetarism, monetary economics, Public Choice Tags: monetary policy
The Calendar Act of 1750 and eleven lost days
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Nobody Messes with Godfrey Giffard, Bishop of Worcester: Punishing the Violators of Sanctuary
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Posted by Sara M. Butler, 26 November 2021.
A felon’s right to claim sanctuary upon sacred ground for a period of forty days is hardly a new subject for this blog (see previous blogs by McSheffrey, Butler, Kesselring, and McSheffrey). Nor is the tension that sometimes existed between sheriffs keen to catch a criminal and the church’s dogged persistence that sanctuary must be respected. When violations of sanctuary by royal officials did occur, we usually hear about the consequences from the secular side of things. The close rolls offer up numerous instances of felons restored to sanctuary at the request of the king, presumably after complaints issued from the church in question. For example, royal correspondence to the sheriffs of London in September of 1337 ordered them to restore Andrew of Sutton immediately to the church of All Hallows, Haywharf in London…
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The Battleship Bismarck: Challenging British Naval Supremacy with a Super-Armoured Ship
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War II
12th Annual Feldstein Lecture – 2020 Claudia Goldin
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in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, discrimination, economic history, economics of education, gender, history of economic thought, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, occupational regulation, poverty and inequality
The White Ship
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in economic history, economics of media and culture Tags: British history
The architecture trend dividing London’s elites
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in economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, environmental economics, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, urban economics Tags: land supply, zoning
George Selgin the Fed’s century of failure
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in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, business cycles, comparative institutional analysis, economic history, global financial crisis (GFC), great depression, great recession, history of economic thought, macroeconomics, monetarism, monetary economics Tags: monetary policy
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