April 26, 2013 – 10:30 am
The term that is. There seem to be few usages that are a greater barrier to clear thought and debate than free markets. Whether used as a term of sneering abuse to create straw-person arguments or as a slogan of the right and proper, it is ready-made to close minds and abstract away from the issues [...]
By Lorenzo
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Also posted in Economics, History, Law, Middle east, Personal liberty, Public Policy, Racism, Religion, Sexuality, Taxation
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Tagged American Revolution, Arnold Kling, banking, barriers to entry, building design, Cato Institute, Clarence Thomas, David Boaz, Debt, discretion, discrimination, economic freedom, Equity, free markets, gains from trade, German Constitution, house design, Latin America, liability, logical fallacy, Political donations, rules v discretion, social mercantilism, time inconsistency, too big to fail, transaction costs, Wells Fargo, zoning laws
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April 17, 2013 – 10:30 am
That modernising societies experience a “demographic transition“–a change from high fertility and high death rates to low fertility and low death rates with an intermediate period of high fertility and low death rates–is well known. The likely reason is lags in adjusting to changes in death rates. The price of children Having children is a [...]
By Lorenzo
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Also posted in Economics, History, Parenthood, Public Policy, Society, Technology, Welfare
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Tagged asset booms and busts, death rates, debt bondage, debt foregiveness, demographic transition, embedded transactions, fertility rates, gold standard, human capital, inflation targeting, manorialism, public bonds, public goods, railway mania, risk premium, serfdom
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I am deeply sceptical about any legal recognition of Sharia on two grounds. First, it is profoundly misogynist, starting with the discounting of evidence from women. Second, it evolved as an imperial legal system. It does not claim to be a legal system for only the faithful, as Jewish law does, but God’s law, applying [...]
By Lorenzo
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Also posted in Britain, Economics, England, History, Law, Public Policy, Religion, Wales
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Tagged 1996 Arbitration Act, bequests, bride-price, Catholic doctrine, Divorce, domestic violence, dower, dowries, Dr Rowan Williams, established church, family law, Gary Becker, groom-price, homicide rates, inheritance, Islamic Sharia Council, Jewish law, mahr, monogamy, Muslim law (Shariah) Council, Orthodox doctrine, patrilocal, polygyny, pre-nuptial agreements, Religious courts, Roman law, sacrament, Sharia, Sharia Tribunals, wife-beating
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April 10, 2013 – 12:32 am
In order to understand this post, you need to be familiar with this cartoon. Familiar? Good, now onto the ‘fun’ part. As a general rule, I try to avoid the situation in which the cartoon’s protagonist finds himself. That is, getting into lengthy online disputes where – it would seem – very few people are [...]
…And not people for the laws. First, an apology for my lengthy absence. I have discovered that working and studying at the same time is difficult, so much so that I have resolved never to combine the two again. However, the study has now finished, and even better, I have a month to prepare for [...]
By skepticlawyer
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Also posted in Law, Personal liberty, Public Policy, Religion, Skeptics
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Tagged #equalmarriage, Cato Institute, Foundation for Economic Education, Hollingsworth, James Peron, Liberty Fund, Moorfield Storey Institute, Proposition 8, Reason Foundation, Sarah Skwire, SCOTUSblog, Steven Horwitz, Tom G. Palmer, Windsor
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January 10, 2013 – 9:30 am
The further back you can look, the further forward you are likely to see. Winston Churchill. With the release of the first film of The Hobbit trilogy, An Unexpected Journey, the blogosphere is rife with Middle Earth allusions. My favourite is Frances Woolley’s wonderful post (with some great comments) The Macroeconomics of Middle Earth, though [...]
By Lorenzo
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Also posted in Blogging, Economics, England, Environment, History, Law, Literature, Politics, Popular culture, Public Policy, Religion, Sexuality, Society, Technology, Welfare
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Tagged Andy Warhol, consanguinity, deepak Lal, Distributism, Eric Crampton, Fascism, films, Frances Woolley, Industrialisation, J R R Tolkien, Kingdom of Wessex, luxury good, Matthew Akers, Morton, Niall Ferguson, Pope Gregory, Scott Sumner, Winston Churchill, world war one
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August 16, 2012 – 4:47 am
As many of you know, I won the 2012 Law Society of Scotland Essay Award for a piece entitled ‘A Plea in Law for Equal Marriage’. The question to which my paper was a response was this: An MSP would like to bring forward a member’s bill in the Scottish Parliament. She would like it [...]
By skepticlawyer
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Also posted in Human/Civil rights, Law, Personal liberty, Science, scotland, Sexuality, Skeptics
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Tagged #equalmarriage, Amanda Spalding, John Deighan, Law Society of Scotland, Parliamentary Officer for the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland, Robert Gordon University, Scots law, Scots Law Commission, The Journal, The Journal Online, university of edinburgh
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August 16, 2012 – 4:47 am
As many of you know, I won the 2012 Law Society of Scotland Essay Award for a piece entitled ‘A Plea in Law for Equal Marriage’. The question to which my paper was a response was this: An MSP would like to bring forward a member’s bill in the Scottish Parliament. She would like it [...]
By skepticlawyer
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Also posted in Human/Civil rights, Law, Personal liberty, Science, scotland, Sexuality, Skeptics
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Tagged #equalmarriage, Amanda Spalding, John Deighan, Law Society of Scotland, Parliamentary Officer for the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland, Robert Gordon University, Scots law, Scots Law Commission, The Journal, The Journal Online, university of edinburgh
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August 7, 2012 – 10:30 am
In the course of exploring the history and dynamics of bigotry, of moral exclusion, and the history of money (particularly the similarities between the goldzone Great Depression and the Eurozone Great Recesssion), it has become clear to me how very poor conservatives tend to be at learning from history. Which is not, of course, how conservatives typically see themselves. [...]
By Lorenzo
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Also posted in Australia, Feminism, History, Human/Civil rights, Law, Personal liberty, Philosophy, Public Policy, Sexuality, Society, The Right
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Tagged Adam Smith, Dominicans, Gramsci, Inquisition, Jim Hines, Joe Scalzi, Natural law theory, Peter Saunders, Philo of Alexandria, political correctness, rafe champion, St Dominic, St John Chrysostom, St Paul of Tarsus, St Thomas Aquinas
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Scotland could become the first part of the UK to introduce gay marriage after the SNP government announced plans to make the change. Ministers confirmed they would bring forward a bill on the issue, indicating the earliest ceremonies could take place by the start of 2015. Political leaders, equality organisations and some faith groups welcomed [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Also posted in Britain, Funnies, Law, Politics, Religion, scotland, Sexuality, Society
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Tagged #equalmarriage, christianity, church of scotland, equal marriage, equality network, gay marriage, gay rights, homosexuality, Roman Catholic Church, same-sex marriage
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