Harold Demsetz interview
19 Jul 2021 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, economic history, entrepreneurship, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, law and economics, market efficiency, property rights, survivor principle, theory of the firm Tags: competition law, Harold Demsetz
Thomas Sowell discusses his Intellectuals and Race
19 Jul 2021 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, history of economic thought, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, liberalism, Marxist economics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, Thomas Sowell Tags: political correctness, racial discrimination, regressive left, The fatal conceit
Enough is Enough: Time to End (Endless) Gravy Train for Subsidised Wind & Solar
19 Jul 2021 Leave a comment
Countless $billions are being squandered on subsidies to unreliable wind and solar, every single day. Wind and solar power don’t run on sunshine and breezes, they run on a seemingly endless stream of subsidies – without which, we simply wouldn’t be having this discussion.
The merest hint threat of a cut to the subsidies sends rent-seekers into apoplexy and ‘investors’ running for the exit.
The damage done to power grid is and electricity markets is as perfectly predictable, as it was perfectly avoidable.
Alan Moran details the disaster that is Australia’s renewable energy subsidy scam, below.
Why don’t we hear about the $40,000 per household cost of decarbonisation?
Spectator Australia
Alan Moran
25 June 2021
The Irish Times reports that an IMF study of Ireland estimates that the nation will need to spend 20 billion euros a year – or five per cent of GDP – to meet its 2050…
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John Stuart Mill’s Trident slays censorship arguments
19 Jul 2021 Leave a comment
in liberalism, libertarianism, Marxist economics Tags: free speech, political correctness, regressive left
Finn Kydland on the great recession
18 Jul 2021 Leave a comment
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Eugene Fama on Warren Buffett
18 Jul 2021 Leave a comment
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What was Straight Left? An introduction by Lawrence Parker
18 Jul 2021 Leave a comment
Last week it was announced that Guardian journalist Seamus Milne was to become Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn’s new Director of Communications. A number of media reports remarked that Milne was once attached to the Communist Party factional journal Straight Left. However few, particularly in the mainstream media, know much about the Straight Left faction or its role in the final years of the Communist Party of Great Britain. I asked Lawrence Parker, an expert on the hardline oppositional and anti-revisionist groups that emerged from the CPGB, to write a little introduction to those unfamiliar with the history of the Straight Left faction.
Origins
Straight Left’s origins lie in the left pro-Soviet oppositions that emerged in the Communist Party of Great Britain in the 1960s. In this period, a definite ‘party within a party’ emerged, with figures such as Sid French, district secretary of Surrey CPGB, becoming key leaders…
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Anti-Nuke Activists Afraid of Safe, Reliable & Affordable Nuclear Power
18 Jul 2021 Leave a comment
If you want people to toe the line, make them afraid. It’s worked a treat for the anti-economic progress crowd in their campaign against nuclear power. It’s the same insidious force that has millions of Australians constantly locked down, cowering under their quilts, thanks to the threat of a virus that’s on a par with the common cold for lethality in a country with first world and first-rate hospitals and healthcare.
Likewise with nuclear power. Long on emotion and short on evidence, the anti-nuke activist has been working up a frenzy of baseless fear for generations.
As Michael Shellenberger outlines in this interview with Chris Kenny, it’s time to engage our critical faculties and stop listening to those who would merrily deprive us all of safe, reliable and affordable nuclear power.
There are ‘fear campaigns’ over nuclear energy
Sky News
Chris Kenny and Michael Shellenberger
28 June 2021
Environmental policy…
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