What’s left of libertarianism?
Liberaltarianism
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This post (crossposted from Crooked Timber) is mainly an excuse for the pun in the title. But I do want to defend both parts of the pun.
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Monday Message Board
Another Monday Message Board. Post comments on any topic. Civil discussion and no coarse language please. Side discussions and idees fixes to the sandpits, please.
Millennials are people, not clones
The Washington Post has an article on millennial attitudes to Trump, broken down by race/ethnicity. The results won’t surprise anybody who’s been paying even minimal attention. Other things equal, millennials are even more hostile to Trump than Americans in general.
Alternatives to Adani
It’s obvious to anyone who cares to look that the Adani rail-mine-port project is an environmental and economic disaster area, and that claims that it will generate thousands of jobs and billions of dollars in revenue are nonsense. But that’s little comfort to people in the region, facing high unemployment following the end of the mining boom and the general slowdown in the economy.
Sandpit
A new sandpit for long side discussions, conspiracy theories, idees fixes and so on.
Monday Message Board
Another Monday Message Board. Post comments on any topic. Civil discussion and no coarse language please. Side discussions and idees fixes to the sandpits, please.
My latest regular email ….
… is over the fold. Contact me on johnquiggin1@mac.com if you’d like to be added to the recipient list.
Another appearance
I’ll be on Sky at 7pm tonight talking to Peter Switzer talking about Zombie Economics and my views on the Australian economy.
Special bonus talk: Customs House tomorrow 8am
Any Brisbane readers interested in my talk on toll roads have a special opportunity to hear it tomorrow morning at the Customs House, with breakfast starting at 8am. It’s the UQ School of Economics annual Colin Clark lecture, and the scheduled speaker has fallen ill, so I’m off the bench as a substitute. More details shortly, I hope.
The nuclear renaissance dies, forgotten and bankrupt
Unless you were paying very close attention, you probably haven’t seen the news that construction of two Westinghouse AP-1000 nuclear reactors at the Virgil C. Summer plant in South Carolina has been abandoned, following the bankruptcy of Westinghouse earlier this year.