Countries with highest Life Expectancy (1800 – 2099)
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in economic history, health economics Tags: life expectancies, The Great Escape
Rod Marsh part 2 – No Ball Law, Safety & the 1981 Underarm Bowling Incident | 2015 Cowdrey Lecture
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The FDA’s Oversight of Drug and Vaccine Development: A Conversation with Richard Epstein
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in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economics of information, economics of regulation, health economics, law and economics, property rights, Richard Epstein Tags: drug lags, economics of pandemics
EU leaders brace for clash over astronomical cost of Net Zero plans
25 May 2021 Leave a comment
‘All pain for no gain’ springs to mind. Will voters accept this pointless self-harm to their economic welfare indefinitely, or turn against it?
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As the astronomical cost of Net Zero plans are becoming more evident by the day, EU leaders face the prospect of growing discontent and revolt over the relentless rise in energy prices and consumer pain, say The GWPF & FT.
After years of assuring voters that renewable energy will make energy cheaper and Europeans better off, EU leaders are now forced to concede that these plans will actually hurt consumers very badly.
The EU Commission is proposing a series of far-reaching measures that will drive up the cost of running a car and heating homes.
If it goes ahead, households will have to shoulder not only rising energy costs, but also the rising cost of Europe’s record carbon price in their heating bills…
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Parliamentary Elections in the reign of Henry VI
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Ahead of next Tuesday’s VirtualIHR Parliaments, Politics and People seminar, we hear from Dr Hannes Kleineke, of the History of Parliament. On 1 June 2021, between 5.15 p.m. and 6.30 p.m., Hannes will be responding to your questions about hispre-circulated paper on parliamentary elections in the reign of Henry VI. Details of how to join the discussion are available here, or by contactingseminar@histparl.ac.uk.
The importance of the reigns of the Lancastrian Kings, and above all that of Henry VI, for the codification of the rules governing parliamentary elections is well known.
It was in 1406 that a statute was passed which required the sheriffs of the English counties to make their returns in the form of indentures counter-sealed by the electors who had in each instance participated in the choice of the knights of the shire, and thereby laid the…
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Insufficient budget for Stolen Generations
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in law and economics, politics - Australia Tags: racial discrimination, regressive left
Thomas Eulogy for Scalia
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in law and economics, politics - USA Tags: constitution law
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