January 29, 2013 – 8:00 am
I have previously posted elsewhere about how similar the failures in indigenous policy and development (particularly foreign aid) policy have been. Remarkably similar, indeed. They also show some distinct similarities to the more unfortunate effects of welfare provision. (By ‘welfare provision’ I do not mean the aged pension or health or education services; I am talking [...]
By Lorenzo
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Also posted in Australia, Economics, England, History, Law, Personal liberty, Public Policy, The Left, The Right, Welfare
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Tagged afghanistan, ALP, Amerindians, Anglo-Saxon law, Arnhem land, Assizes, Australian Aborigines, canon law, china, cliodynamics, collectivisation, common law, Commonwealth Intervention, Curley effect, Danelaw, development policy, Earl Ferrers, Elinor Ostrom, farming, foragers, foreign aid, france, free riding, Glenn Reynolds, Henry II, House of Elders, house of lords, human capital, hunter-gatherers, Immigration, indigenous policy, iraq, japan, Jesse Helms, Lapps, magna carta, narcissism, Norman law, North American colonies, Peter Turchin, singapore, sit down money, Somaliland, Thomas Hobbes, time horizons, trial by jury, Vernon Smith
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October 24, 2012 – 2:45 am
One of my favourite modern films is “Stigmata”. In it, a Catholic priest and debunker of miracles for the Holy See (Gabriel Byrne) stumbles across the case of an American hairdresser (Patricia Arquette) who appears to be exhibiting the signs of Stigmata despite living an unashamedly dissolute party-animal life and being a complete non-believer. What [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Also posted in Internet, Personal, Politics, Religion, Uncategorized
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Tagged christianity, holy see, kateri tekakwitha, lily of the mohawks, Roman Catholic Church, society of jesus, stigmata, the vatican
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October 16, 2012 – 9:30 am
We think of the World Wars of the C20th as being unprecedented in their death tolls. That is not true in either total deaths or, still less, death rates. While the 1939-45 War did have the largest death toll of any war in history, the 1914-19 War does not come second. When one considers the huge [...]
By Lorenzo
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Also posted in History, Law, Public Policy, Religion, Technology
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Tagged chaos, china, Confucianism, Leninism, north korea, order, war
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October 3, 2012 – 12:00 am
New Labour bought into the right wing media’s portrayal of its union backers as “evil”, Unite general secretary Len McCluskey has claimed. He said the party treated the unions as a “nutty relative” who had to be “kept at arm’s length”. But its current leadership were moving towards a better understanding of what the unions [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Also posted in Britain, Fark!, Funnies, Politics, Public Policy, The Left
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Tagged doctor who, ed milliband, len mcclusky, matt smith, new labour, party funding, science fiction, the lonely assassins, the time of angels, UK labour party, uk labour party conference 2012, unite union, weeping angels doctor who
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October 2, 2012 – 9:30 am
I recently had the unexpected experience of reading a book that appalled me; this is not a reaction I can remember having to a book before. The book has a title I agree with: Ideas Have Consequences. Regarded as a classic text of postwar American conservatism, the book is a long jeremiad at the corruption [...]
By Lorenzo
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Also posted in Books, History, Politics, Society, Technology, The Right
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Tagged Beethoven, Dostoyevsky, Etienne Gilson, Great Depression, Impressionism, Jazz, Leninism, Modernism, nominalism, Plato, Richard Weaver, Scientific Revolution, steven pinker, Walter Bagehot, William of Ockham
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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, Marriage, Personal liberty, 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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[SL recently discussed Christos Tsolkias' piece in her recent post on left-wing politics. At the end she said: Tsiolkas’s essay impressed me so much that I decided to review the book from which it comes, Left Turn, which is edited by two prominent lefties, Antony Loewenstein and Jeff Sparrow. But then I thought better of [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Also posted in Australia, Books, Economics, Feminism, Guest Post, Human/Civil rights, Media, Personal liberty, Politics, Society, The Left, The Right
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Tagged Adam Smith Institute, Antony Loewenstein, book review, Christos Tsiolkas, Dave Bath, Guest Post, Jeff Sparrow, Left Turn, Media, Politics, The Economist, The Left, The Right
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I am extremely proud to announce that my book has been published today. Here is the little summary from the publisher’s website: This book defends the view that an award of an account of profits (or ‘disgorgement damages’) for breach of contract will sometimes be justifiable, and fits within the orthodox principles and cases in [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Also posted in Academia, Books, Economics, England, Equity, Intellectual property, Law, Personal, Restitution, Tort
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Tagged account of profit, Accounting for Profit for Breach of Contract, Attorney General v Blake, breach of contract, compensation, contract law, deterrence, Equity, fusion fallacy, heresy, house of lords, Intellectual property, Katy Barnett, law and economics, obligations, performance interest, private law, property law, punishment, tort law, vindication
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I find Steve Horwitz, along with George Selgin (prominent advocate of free banking and supporter of a productivity norm [pdf] for monetary policy), the most accessible of contemporary Austrian school economists as they are both clear writers who seek to engage with those who are not of their school and are refreshingly free of the nastiness [...]
By Lorenzo
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Also posted in Economics, Entrepreneurs, History
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Tagged Austrian business cycle, Austrian school, capital, David Glasner, deflation, Friedrich Hayek, George Selgin, Inflation, John Maynard Keynes, labour markets, monetary policy, Scott Sumner, Steve Horwitz, Tyler Cowen
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The other day, Lorenzo alerted me to this post on the Volokh Conspiracy on why academic lawyers failed to foresee that the US Supreme Court would be very negative towards Obama’s healthcare legislation. In the post, Adler argues that it is surprising that anyone expected academic lawyers to have any insight whatsoever into the views [...]
