David Friedman BSU Lecture – Part 2/4
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in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, David Friedman, economics of crime, economics of education, law and economics, property rights
Environmental Economics | Lynne Kiesling
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Fresh Meat – The Search For New Recruits I THE GREAT WAR – Week 14
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
People (Ordinary, that is) need to change their diet and flying habits to help planet, chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance warns
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Empire Lite: Nation-Building in Bosnia, Kosovo and Afghanistan by Michael Ignatieff (2003)
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Nobody likes empires but there are some problems for which there are only imperial solutions. (p.11)
Nations sometimes fail, and when they do only outside help – imperial help – can get them back on their feet. (p.106)
A bit of biography
In the 1990s Ignatieff managed to combine being a tenured academic, a journalist making extensive foreign trips, and a TV presenter. Without planning it, Ignatieff fell into a rhythm of publishing every 2 or 3 years short books chronicling the unfolding of the failed states he visited, and the chaos which engulfed some countries after the end of the Cold War.
These short but engaging studies build up into a series of snapshots of the new world disorder unfolding through the 1990s and into the post 9/11 era, mixed with profound meditations on the morality of international affairs and humanitarian intervention:
- Blood and Belonging: Journeys Into the New…
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Openness to immigrants
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in discrimination, labour economics, labour supply Tags: economics of immigration
Mad Max Rides Again: Post-Renewables Europe Desperate For Fossil Fuels
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Western Europe’s wind drought has them scrambling for fossil fuels, like their lives depend upon it, and it’s as if they didn’t see it coming! Who would ever have thought that the wind might stop blowing for extended spells?
The almost dystopian panic brings to mind George Miller’s dystopian post-Apocalypse action-thriller, Mad Max 2.
Mel Gibson’s Max Rockatansky – aka the Road Warrior – is an ex-cop, outcast and loner who had been roaming the wastelands for years, until he stumbles upon the desert compound and refuge of a clan of misfits and renegades (the Settlers), defending themselves against a marauding mob of cutthroats, led by the evil Lord Humungus (the Marauders).
Max manages to enter the compound and escape Humungus and his band of vicious thugs, for a time.
Max is already alive to the fact that the compound houses a petrol refinery and also, apparently, holds fuel…
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#endcoal
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in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmists, unintended consequences
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