The Great Trigonometrical Survey and the World’s Tallest Peak
22 Jul 2021 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of media and culture Tags: India, maps
Tullock Lecture: Deirdre McCloskey
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in applied price theory, Austrian economics, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, Marxist economics, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: The Great Enrichment
@OTD #globalwarming #climateemergency @AOC
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in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - USA Tags: climate alarmists
Watch “History and Sewage: The Great Stink of 1858” on YouTube
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in economic history, health economics Tags: The Great Escape, water pollution
The Yama-Ichi Yakuza War (1986-89)
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in economics of crime, law and economics Tags: Japan, organized crime
Richard Epstein: “Is the Administrative State Consistent with the Rule of Law?”
22 Jul 2021 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of regulation, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, Richard Epstein Tags: constitution law, offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
California’s Renewable Energy Meltdown: Power Prices Rocket Amidst Rolling Blackouts
21 Jul 2021 Leave a comment
Want unaffordable and unreliable power? Then wind and solar are just the ticket. With their grid on the very brink of collapse, Californians are suffering from rocketing power prices – all thanks to a ludicrous attempt to run on sunshine and breezes.
Even when the sun is shining, the wind is blowing and power is being delivered to those in need, a growing number have no hope of paying for it.
Already paying America’s highest power prices, Californians are watching in horror as their power bills continue to soar.
Robert Bryce reports on California’s renewable energy meltdown.
Blackouts Loom in California as Electricity Prices Are ‘Absolutely Exploding’
Real Clear Energy
Robert Bryce
24 June 2021
Two inexorable energy trends are underway in California: soaring electricity prices and ever-worsening reliability – and both trends bode ill for the state’s low- and middle-income consumers.
Last week, the state’s grid operator, the California…
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Reconstruction and 1876: Crash Course US History
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in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic history, economics of crime, income redistribution, law and economics, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: American Civil War
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