“Yes, Minister” on the Brexit Referendum
16 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
in constitutional political economy, international economics Tags: Brexit, British economy, British politics, Common market, European Union
Natalie Bennett’s Best Bits | Gaia Fawkes
17 May 2016 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture Tags: British politics
I imagine him in the White House – @jeremycorbyn’s like someone who got lost from the tour
09 May 2016 Leave a comment
in Public Choice Tags: British politics, focus groups, voter demographics
The countries that Britons like and dislike most
02 May 2016 1 Comment
in economics of media and culture Tags: British politics
Source: 19 thought-provoking maps that will change how you see the world.
Source: 19 thought-provoking maps that will change how you see the world.
Forget avoidance outrage: public’s real attitude to tax is revealed by their actions @JordNZ
21 Apr 2016 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, constitutional political economy, economic history, economics of media and culture, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics Tags: British economy, British politics, expressive voting, growth of government, rational irrationality, revealed preference, size of government, voter demographics
McDonald’s Workers Just Lovin’ Their #ZeroHoursContracts @suemoroney @IainLG @FairnessNZ
19 Apr 2016 Leave a comment
in labour economics, labour supply, managerial economics, market efficiency, organisational economics, personnel economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: British economy, British politics, employment law, employment regulation, fixed costs of working, part-time work, The fatal conceit, The pretense to knowledge, zero hours contracts
Revealed preference rules. Not only do about half of unemployed turned down offers of zero hour contract jobs, those that switch from a zero hours contract to minimum hours are not much different from the number of people in these type of jobs who would be quitting to another job anyway.
Source: McDonald’s Workers Are Just Lovin’ Their Zero Hours Contracts – Forbes and McDonald’s offer staff the chance to get off zero-hours contracts | UK news | The Guardian.
The enormous costs of socialism in Eastern European @BernieSanders @jeremycorbyn @johnmcdonnellMP
09 Apr 2016 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, law and economics, Marxist economics Tags: 2016 presidential election, British politics, collapse of communism, economics of socialism, Leftover Left
Prof Patrick Minford on the EU and trade
22 Mar 2016 Leave a comment
in economics, international economics Tags: British economy, British politics, Common market, customs unions, EU
Remembering @JeremyCorbyn’s good old days
20 Mar 2016 Leave a comment
in economic history, politics - USA, urban economics Tags: British economy, British politics, pessimism bias, The Great Enrichment
Patrick Minford on why membership of the EU is hampering Britain’s trade with the wider world
19 Mar 2016 Leave a comment
in economics, international economics Tags: British economy, British politics, Common market, customs unions, EU
Note from @paulkrugman to @BernieSanders @JeremyCorbyn and their supporters
23 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic history, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, labour economics, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, politics - USA Tags: 2016 presidential election, antiforeign bias, antimarket bias, British politics, Leftover Left, make-work bias, rational ignorance, rational irrationality, renegade Left, Twitter left
@jeremycorbyn betrays #Falklands self-determination
21 Jan 2016 Leave a comment
in economics Tags: British politics, Falklands
What would be the opening offer of @jeremycorbyn at Syrian Civil War peace talks?
03 Dec 2015 Leave a comment
in defence economics, International law, war and peace Tags: British politics, Middle-East politics, Syrian Civil War
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7M9NuiQXgs&feature=youtu.be
The best part of Hilary Benn’s speech when he explain the benefits of airstrikes. Benn pointed out that 14 months ago, ISIS was at the gates of Baghdad but airstrikes beat them back. Benn then referred to the Kurds where they were in retreat until there were airstrikes. They now have a border with ISIS they can defend.
Exactly what would Jeremy Corbyn put on that negotiating table for a comprehensive peace settlement to the Syrian Civil War that:
- would end the military threat from ISIS in Syria, and
- allow the Kurdish succession opposed by all others plus Turkey, Iraq and Russia?
Without the resumption of military strikes as negotiating coin if such peace talks break down, why would anyone fighting on the ground in Syria care about what proposals the Western powers might put up?
The possibility of a temporary cessation in current and intensifying Western military airstrikes is one of the few reasons for the parties to sit down at a negotiating table with the Western powers and Russia if only to string out that cessation of those airstrikes while they regroup and re-equip. The parties to the Syrian Civil War only respect force, not moral authority.
The ability to negotiate a credible peaceful settlement between…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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