This post is cross-posted to Thesiswhisperer. Clearly, it’s aimed at research students (PhD and MPhil), but I thought it might also be of interest to readers here. The funding of research training is one of the things I’ve discussed in my PhD. Do you feel that your institution is putting pressure on you to submit [...]
January 12, 2013 – 9:30 am
Political science models. President Obama’s re-election has already been thoroughly mythologised, particularly by those disappointed by said re-election. One can read worried, or admiring, examinations of the data-mining and thoroughly internetted campaign techniques used by the Obama campaign, complaints about media bias, dark musings about the implications for the future of the US and so [...]
November 25, 2012 – 10:15 am
In May this year, I wrote a post about the case of Rose Ashton-Weir, who, with her mother, Elizabeth Weir, was suing Geelong Grammar because she alleged it did not support her to a sufficient degree to allow her to get into Law at Sydney University. Judgment has been handed down (Weir v Geelong Grammar [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Also posted in Children, Education, Law, Motherhood, Parenthood, Society
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Tagged breach of contract, compensatory damages, Education, Geelong Grammar, gifted, Law School, misleading and deceptive conduct, negligence, Rose Ashton-Weir
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September 7, 2012 – 7:42 pm
There have been many campaigns, over the years, to improve literacy in Australia (and in other developed nations, too). It is well known that even with universal, compulsory education, a percentage of young people finish their schooling and really struggle with reading and writing. Finding ways to address this is a common and worthy cause [...]
By skepticlawyer
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Also posted in Australia, Books, Literature
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Tagged Andrew Norton, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Brisbane Writers' Festival, Germaine Greer, IEA, Jane Cowell, literacy, Matthew Condon, Nick Earls, numeracy, Queensland Literary Awards, State Library of Queensland, Steve Horwitz
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September 5, 2012 – 5:53 pm
The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there. (L.P. Hartley, The Go-Between) I was forcibly reminded of the truth of Hartley’s statement while undertaking some legal research today. I have been conducting research into the doctrine of specific performance, which is when a court orders a party to a contract to perform [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Also posted in England, History, Human/Civil rights, Law, Personal liberty, scotland, Society
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Tagged abolition, Equity, History, James Somerset, Joseph Knight, Lord Hardwicke, Lord Mansfield, pearne v lisle, serfs, slave labour, slavery, slaves, Somersett's Case, specific performance
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August 13, 2012 – 10:30 am
A feature of the internet has been the growth of networked zealotry; where intensely held attitudes are expressed in overheated rhetoric and ad hominem abuse, not as solitary aberrations (though that also happens), but in self-reinforcing internet coteries. This has fed off, and possibly intensified, the bitter “culture wars” of the US; the intensification of [...]
By Lorenzo
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Also posted in Blogging, Britain, History, Media, Politics, Science, Society
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Tagged David Henderson, Ian Castles, Jodie Foster, mel gibson, Scott Sumner
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Litigation involving student evaluations of university lecturers is a topic I’ve touched on some years ago. Student evaluations are particularly nerve-wracking for a lecturer if she or he is a sessional lecturer (or in US terms, an adjunct lecturer). I spent some years as a sessional lecturer, and it really sucked. It was the lack [...]
I have become deeply interested in the origins of money, which means reading the work of various historical anthropologists. As is often the case when reading other social scientists on matters of economic significance, one comes across a fair bit of economist envy. Compared to other social science academics (and, for that matter, humanities academics), [...]
By Lorenzo
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Also posted in Economics, History
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Tagged anthropology, archaeology, gains from trade, John Locke, John Maynard Keynes, Karl Marx, Labour theory of value, money, nobel prize, problem of knowledge, property
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Today (Tuesday 31st) is Milton Friedman’s centenary. It seems appropriate to link to some Milton Friedman quotes here and here. Various bloggers have offered their comments, including Bryan Caplan’s ode, Tyler Cowen notes how much he is still needed, Lars Christensen writes him a letter, and David Glasner continues his campaign against the Wall St [...]
By Lorenzo
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Also posted in Drugs, Economics, Education, Public Policy, Welfare
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Tagged Bryan Caplan, David Friedman, Friedrich Hayek, John Maynard Keynes, Lars Christensen, milton friedman, Paul Krugman, Tyler Cowen
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… Just write the following as your status update: [skepticlawyer] is getting rather sick of the politics of envy – served with a toxic topping of fat hate – being flung at Gina Rinehart. Here’s a tip: if a woman has a great deal more money and talent than you, and also refuses to play the [...]
By skepticlawyer
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Also posted in Art, Australia, Blogging, Economics, Fark!, Feminism, Media
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Tagged CP Snow, Facebook, Fairfax, fat-hate, Gina Rinehart, politics of envy, social media, The Two Cultures
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