What’s wrong with education? A Symposium featuring Bryan Caplan & Miguel Urquiola
16 Dec 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of education, economics of information, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, personnel economics, poverty and inequality, unemployment Tags: signaling
The Hooters – And We Danced – Countdown Australia – 22nd December 1985
13 Dec 2020 Leave a comment
in Music, television
Nicole McKee’s maiden speech
08 Dec 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, property rights Tags: free speech
The Last of the R.S.I and Mussolini
08 Dec 2020 Leave a comment
History came full-circle on 29 October 1944, when Benito Mussolini made his last public speech in Milan. Exactly twenty-two years before, he had set out from this same city in the ‘March on Rome’ that brought him to power. That early triumph had been preceded by a period of violent struggle, just as years of difficult warfare seemed to culminate somehow in the 1944 mass-rally. The outpouring of popular support it generated for him inspired his sometimes flagging spirits, while stiffening the backbone of the Salo Republic under an increasingly heavy siege from the air. His words were broadcast from the…
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Stalin at Potsdam
08 Dec 2020 Leave a comment
The Russian demand for reparations had been accepted in principle at Yalta. The special commission set up to examine the subject failed to reach agreement. At Potsdam, Stalin pressed constantly for acceptance of a figure for reparations. The Allies refused to be committed. They were incensed by reports that the Russians were already removing from occupied territories machinery and other property which were not accepted as booty of war. Various practical difficulties forced the Western Allies to abandon their policy of treating the German economy as a whole. New U.S. Secretary of State James Byrnes finally proposed that each power should satisfy its reparations claims from its own zone. Some 40 percent of the value of German industrial equipment deemed unnecessary for a peace economy was in the Soviet zone. Byrnes proposed further that 10 percent of such industrial equipment in the western zones should be given to Soviet Russia…
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The Great Escape from infectious diseases
08 Dec 2020 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: The Great Escape, vaccines
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