Acting Gay!
15 Jan 2021 Leave a comment
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ECON2175 2111 Lecture 1 – What is Economic History
14 Jan 2021 Leave a comment
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Thomas Sowell on Intellectuals and Society
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#globalwarming #climateemergency @oxfam
14 Jan 2021 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, development economics, econometerics, environmental economics, global warming, growth disasters, growth miracles, population economics, transport economics, urban economics Tags: climate alarmists
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The Battle of Brisbane: When Allies Fought Each-Other
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in defence economics, economics of crime, law and economics, laws of war, politics - Australia, politics - USA, war and peace Tags: Australia, World War II
Thomas Sowell on Noam Chomsky, Cornel West and Other left-wing Intellectuals
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Walter Williams: Up From the Projects
13 Jan 2021 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, history of economic thought
Compared to the United States, Does Europe Have a “Better” Distribution of Income?
13 Jan 2021 Leave a comment
As illustrated by my recent three-part series (here, here, and here), I care about helping the poor rather then hurting the rich.
More broadly, I want a bigger economic pie so that everyone can have a larger slice. And I don’t particularly care if some people get richer faster than other people get richer (assuming they are earning money honestly and not relying on government favoritism).
In other words, it doesn’t bother me if someone like Bill Gates is getting richer faster than I’m getting richer, so long as there’s an economic environment that gives both of us a chance to prosper based on how much value we are providing to others.
But some folks are fixated on how the pie is sliced.
For instance, the Peterson Institute for International Economics recently tweeted that there is too much inequality in the United States (compared to…
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Seymour is saying the most as the pollies thrust and parry on the pros and cons of Covid policies
13 Jan 2021 Leave a comment
The tightening of the border to keep new strains of Covid-19 at bay and demands to hasten the Covid-19 vaccination programme have dominated political debate – at least insofar as press statements provide a measure – in recent days.
Opposition parties have been much busier than the government – or have made much more noise – by releasing several statements on Covid-19 issues since Sunday.
But one of those, posted on both the Scoop and Voxy websites on 11 January in the name of National’s Chris Bishop, perhaps should be discounted because it is a repetition of a statement he released on December 28:
“The announcement today that from early next year all returnees from the UK and US will require pre-departure testing is a sound decision and one that the National Party has been calling for since August when we proposed a Border Protection Agency, National’s Covid-19 Recovery spokesperson…
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