School Transgender Policy 1. Brighton: Allsorts
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I have done a number of twitter threads on School policies, ostensibly, about protecting “transgender children”. The only one I have blogged, thus far, focussed on the way they treat parents. We are treated as potential bigots who need educatingon Gender Identity issues. The Schools, invariably, take it upon themselves to keep parents in the dark about our ” Gender Dysphoric” kids. They blithely inform us our kids are at significant risk of attempting suicide but stillthink it is good practice to hide pertinent information from parents. You can read that post here: Putting the Loco in Loco Parentis.
I will now do a series on the policies I have found. Some have already been withdrawn but we need to preserve a record of the extent of the policy capture. Note that this series will be repetitive as they are clearly modelled on a small number of…
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Maybe Bertrand Russell wasn’t that bad after all
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in Marxist economics, Rawls and Nozick
Bertrand Russell – Why communism failed
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in Marxist economics Tags: Russian revolution
Trump vs. Biden on the Minimum Wage
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In another display of selfless masochism, I watched the Trump–Biden debate last night.
The candidates behaved better, for whatever that’s worth, but I was disappointed that there so little time (and even less substance) devoted to economic issues.
One of the few exceptions was the brief tussle regarding the minimum wage. Trump waffled on the issue, so I don’t give him any points, but Biden fully embraced the Bernie Sanders policy of basically doubling the minimum wage to $15 per hour.
This is very bad news for low-skilled workers and very bad news to low-margin businesses.
The economic of this issue are very simple. If a worker generates, say, $9 of revenue per hour, and politicians say that worker can’t be employed for less than $15 per hour, that’s a recipe for unemployment.
Earlier this month, Professor Steven Landsburg on the University of Rochester opined for…
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Book Review: “Cesare and Lucrezia Borgia: Brother and Sister of History’s Most Vilified Family” by Samantha Morris
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A family mired in myths and rumors of incest, murder, and intrigue for centuries. A brother and sister caught in the middle, attracting the attention of gossips and historians alike. No, I am not referring to a royal family in England. In fact, this story starts in Spain with Alonso de Borja, who moved to Italy and helped create the infamous Borgia family. Caught in the middle were the son and daughter of Rodrigo Borgia, Alonso’s nephew, and his mistress Vanozza Cattanei; Cesare and Lucrezia Borgia. How close were these famous siblings? What were their lives really like? In Samantha Morris’ latest biography, “Cesare and Lucrezia Borgia: Brother and Sister of History’s Vilified Family”, she dives deep into the archives to find out the truth about the legendary Borgia family.
I would like to thank Pen and Sword Books and Net Galley for sending me a copy of this book…
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70 Years of China’s Economic Growth In One Chart
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in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, Marxist economics Tags: China, The Great Enrichment
The ultimate market test
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in economics of education, economics of media and culture, entrepreneurship Tags: cranks, Quacks
Declassified footage of the biggest nuclear explosion ever
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Here’s a rare video, previously classified but recently released, of the explosion of the “Tsar Bomba“, which the Soviet Union detonated on October 30, 1961. Wikipedia calls it “the most powerful nuclear weapon ever created and tested”, and it “remains the most powerful human-made explosive ever detonated.”
How powerful was this H-bomb? About 50 megatons of TNT; here’s a comparison to other Big Bombs:
The Tsar Bomba was the single most physically powerful device ever deployed on Earth. For comparison, the largest weapon ever produced by the U.S., the now-decommissioned B41, had a predicted maximum yield of 25 megatons of TNT (100 PJ). The largest nuclear device ever tested by the U.S. (Castle Bravo) yielded 15 megatons of TNT (63 PJ) because of an unexpectedly high involvement of lithium-7 in the fusion reaction; the preliminary prediction for the yield was from 4 to 6 megatons of TNT (17 to…
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Rare Economic Disasters: What Role Does Government Play? | Robert Barro
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in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, budget deficits, business cycles, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of natural disasters, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, fiscal policy, global financial crisis (GFC), great depression, great recession, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, unemployment
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